Trails of Nyssa's Handprints

Dirty smears of carbon and grease mark the metallic floor plates where Nyssa steadied herself. Her palms left irregular ridges of soot and skin oil between rivet seams, visible only under the liner's failing strip-lighting. Tegan tracks her friend’s path by crouching to touch the faint deposits before losing the trace beside a jagged bulkhead edge torn by raider fire.

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S20E13 · Terminus Part 1

Doctor and Nyssa recoil in the liner's horror

Nyssa’s handprints—smears of carbon and grease on the metallic floor—serve as visual evidence of her desperate flight through the corridor. Tegan notices these prints, using them to follow Nyssa’s path toward safety, bridging the narrative gap between their separation and reunion.

Before: Developing as Nyssa traverses the corridor, her passage marked by contact with the walls

After: Partially obscured or trampled over as others pass, rendering them less visible but not fully erased

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