busybee comics

Council member: Oracle, you WILL tell us what is going on, NOW.

496 [via Jodi]: I apologize for leaving this oracle to communicate on her own earlier. My attention was diverted, but I am now exclusively here.

496: I am uncertain why the chamber has gone completely dark. Is there no emergency lighting?

[[496 looks at the council in the infrared]]

Roku: "Emergency lighting?" What purpose would that serve?

496: It would use charge stored in case of emergency, such as a POWER OUTAGE.

Bennett: Power...outage? With all DUE respect, those are two words I have never heard together.

496: Nobody planned for a widespread loss of electricity?

Roku: Of course not. How could that POSSIBLY happen?

496: Perhaps like this.