This strip was a bit of serendipity that worked in my favor. It started out with me drawing Nancy being “flirtatious”, some would say harassing, to Paul. There was no context beyond me coming up with a story beat before coming up with that part of the story. Happily, I thought of a reason for Nancy to be “holding on to something”. Not that this makes things better for Paul.

Nancy will deny it, but she’s flying her geek flag high by quoting the Ramkin family motto from Terry Pratchet’s “Snuff