Pip is flashing back to a couple of strips that start here.

Pip: I’m not always gonna be a stranger to you, though. You meet me. When you’re older. We talk all the time, actually. You trust me.

You yell at me a lot, but I care about you. I want to keep you safe. And you know that. You’ve told me some really personal things, and…oh!

You’re nine-year-old Seras! The one hiding in the closet. The one locked in the moment.