It was the best of parties, I’m sure.
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Lasper and Val walked down a park walkway on earth at night. A passing man said, “Nice costumes.” Unenthusiastically, Lasper said, “It was a blatz of a party.” He then looked down at Val and said, “You don’t look so well, Val.” She indeed did not look 100%, and replied, “Yeah. I’ve been not feeling great for a long time. Maybe I just inherited a bum body.” Lasper said, “Why haven’t you said anything?” Val said, “As a woman you get used to being in pain after a lifetime of choosing whether to be in pain or to talk with a doctor who doesn’t believe you and still be in pain.”
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Return of the KlopeyKope disease! Hope you get the meds you need soon, Val.
Whoa. Nice catch.
About time that became relevant to the plot! Been waiting for that to crop up. Honestly, still annoyed that whichever one is in Val’s body wasn’t the one to bring it up first. Can’t believe that they just forgot about it entirely. With how regular they need to take the medication, they should have realised it and brought it up ages ago.
The body swappers still haven’t met up with their original bodies, so the original occupant of the dodgy body hasn’t had a chance to tell anyone that can do anything about it.
But that’s partly because the original occupant of the dodgy body has been faffing about in art museums and so on instead of moving expediently to convey this vital information.
I’m talking about not mentioning it *at all* to *anyone*. We haven’t even had a “Oh shit! My condition!” realisation yet from them.
She hasn’t been feeling like herself.
So the klopeyklope thing was real and not a scam by Picknar’s doctors.
There’s a middle ground where it’s real but not actually fatal.
No the case here. It can be fatal, if untreated.
Wondering, shouldn’t the body have pills on it’s person?
That last panel is the absolute truth. Thank you, Chris.
Yes, indeed.
And it has nothing to do with “the klopeyklope thing”, which Val would not be aware of.
The clock is ticking. And Val’s from a culture where men don’t hear such things. Or accuse the sufferer of making them up for attention. Personally, I think doctors have seen enough to know it’s the culture making women sicker, and don’t want to get involved. Like this helps things. Pfah!
Huh?
Re-read the last panel of the comic.
Was this the body owned by the rich Tith?
That’s the human talking. Many doctors, especially ER docs, simply refuse to believe that “pain” exists.
No, this is the poor Tith who lied about their condition to get into the study.
Not quite as complicated as I thought, then.