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[ID: 7 panel comic taking place in a plaza with a large tree in front of a blue glass building. The characters are Sprout (young white woman with brown braids), Riptide (young white man with shark teeth), Anthony/Argent Adept (white man with orange hair and a beard), and Absolute Zero (man in a blue robot suit). 1: Sprout and Riptide are walking away from Anthony (all wearing plain clothes). Sprout is smiling and waving at Anthony over her shoulder, Riptide looks back at Anthony with his hands in his pockets, Anthony waves back at Sprout. 2: Riptide points over his shoulder with his thumb and looks at Sprout. Riptide: "So who was that guy?" Sprout: "Oh, that's Anthony. I see him at Akash'Flora all the time. I think he's a gardener or something." 3: Fully black panel with white text reading "LITERALLY MONTHS LATER" in all caps. 4: Argent Adept (in hero outfit) standing in front of the tree. AbZero (off panel): "Kid, this is the Argent Adept of the Prime Wardens." AA: "Oh, we've met." 5: Side view of AA, AbZero, and Sprout. Sprout is pointing at AA in shock. AA looks mildly surprised. AbZero is just watching this. Sprout: "YOU?!" AbZero (small text): oh cool you guys know each other already 6: Sprout looking away with a hand to her chest, dismayed. "Why didn't you tell me you were the Argent Adept?" 7: AA looks up and away thoughtfully. Sprout leans forward, hands in fists, angry expression. AbZero looks away with one hand to his face, suppressing a laugh. AA: "I suppose it just didn't come up." Arrow shaped text box pointing to AA: "thought she already knew" Sprout: "ANTHONY." [End ID].