do you still think about it, page 21 [sketch]

this page was so annoying to sketch. probably just bad real-life circumstances souring the experience.

for the first 2 panels, i wanted sugar focused on her work again. i ended up having her scanning samples to catalogue them for another assay, partially for variety, and partially because i just think that it's something she would start to do after lunch.
i was going to have the bat coworker clocking out as the first panel, followed by a beat, and then the other coworker coming in, but it felt kind of just like a set of standard, uninteresting panels.
i decided, then, near the end, that i wanted the canyon to be shown in the second panel as a little surprise and reminder, rather than the first. i did try to include it in the first panel initially, for contrast between this latent distraction, and sugar's seemingly intense focus on her work.

this is her second coworker, whose shift overlaps with the latter half of hers, and starts with the end of the bat's shift.

i've already described her role in the workplace and general personality, i think, so i'll spare my hand from typing it again. in the 6th and 7th panels, sugar and the human coworker are cross-reviewing their results -- sometimes sugar will need to review an assay by this coworker, sometimes not. it depends on the test needed.
they must both sign off on paper reports of the results as a form of accountability tracking. i imagine you can't clock out until the results are reviewed by someone else, so this is done during the end of sugar's shift, which i wanted this page to end on.
before she leaves, sugar will clean her workstation. i also imagine that this isn't actually mandatory, or, if it is, it isn't super enforced, as you are supposed to disinfect before starting your own shift, anyway.

the page would be well enough ending on panel 5, but it wasn't really what it needed to be. i was doubting having the puff of air in the last panel would be repetitious iconography, but i think it works to help indicate that her workday is coming to a close like the lid of the machine.

after she leaves work, she will need to pick up something from the store for lola, and go to the gym -- canonically, she started to lift weights as a form of channeling anger. there are probably better ways to do so, but they would require more social interaction. unlike felix, sugar only uses machine-assisted weights, rather than free lifting. these two things i can probably do in 2 pages, so maybe 3 pages until sugar arrives back home, and the last scene of the comic starts.