A page from Dr. Eleven, Vol. 1, No. 2 (“The Pursuit”), shows Dr. Eleven visited in his office by the ghost of his mentor, Captain Lonagan, who was recently killed by an Undersea assassin.

The narration explains that Miranda drew and discarded fifteen versions of the image before she felt she had captured the ghost exactly right.

Years later, at the end of Miranda’s life, she is delirious on an empty beach on the coast of Malaysia, watching seabirds and distant ships, and she keeps returning in her mind to this specific image—drifting toward it, away from it, and then feeling as if she slips through its frame.

The image is described in detail: Captain Lonagan appears as a delicate watercolor silhouette in the dim light of Dr. Eleven’s office, which is identical to the administrative area of Leon Prevant’s Toronto office suite, down to two staplers on the desk.

The only difference is the view: Leon Prevant’s office looks out over Lake Ontario, while Dr. Eleven’s window looks out over the City’s rocky islands and bridges. A Pomeranian named Luli sleeps in the corner as dialogue asks what dying was like, and Captain Lonagan answers that it was “exactly like waking up from a dream.”