Excellent follow up to the first issue, which was pretty much all setup. Echo signs up for a bake sale and meets another kid, things are looking up. But, at the same time, she is learning about a very traumatic history from her heritage as a Métis person. So much so that as she consumes the history whenever she sleeps, she dreams about being there herself as a kind of bystander witnessing everything; this causes her emotional pain, of course.

It’s a really smart way of illustrating to people what learning this kind of history would be like and how affecting it is, generally. Some people classified this as like science fiction and time travel and stuff, but it’s very clearly a dream. You see her eyes closed and she says it’s a dream. I don’t know why people think a visual dream, imagining yourself in events you’re consuming would be fantasy. It occurs literally all of the time for some people.