Snapdragon

Jacks shows Snap how to feed the baby possums: She used to be a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Snap watches while Jacks assembles a rabbit spine. Jacks respects the animals and doesn’t want their lives to end as roadkill that no one notices. She claps to move their spirit along and buries them so they can “become something new” (62). As Jacks speaks, a rabbit skull is illustrated in one frame, while in the next, a blue rabbit spirit is around the skull.

Snap rented nature magazines with animals in dynamic poses. She wants to help Jacks arrange the bones to look like they’re moving. Jacks agrees to try.

Later, Lulu is putting on sparkly pink nail polish and asking Snap why she likes bones so much. Snap just thinks they’re interesting. She reluctantly lets Lulu paint her nails, and Lulu thanks her for not “making fun of me” for liking “girly” things (66). Lulu is still going by her deadname and it is not yet obvious to the reader she is trans.

The next day, Snap cleans the possum babies’ box before helping Jacks sort bones. Jacks notices Snap staring at her eyepatch. She initially jokes that a fox ate it, but then says she lost it in a motorcycle accident.