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Panel 1:
Setting: A corporate conference room with large windows. A large blue shark in a name tag labeled "FORGE" is enthusiastically addressing the room. A table is filled with cupcakes, each with a different word or phrase written with frosting. A sign behind the shark reads:
"WELCOME TO MANDATORY MINDFULNESS"
A smaller sign says:
"with FORGE (copyright)"
Forge (shark):
"My name is Forge. I am your Positivity Enrichment Consultant!"

Panel 2:
Setting: Same room. Forge is now joined by Milo the raccoon, holding a cupcake labeled “Delight.”
Forge (shouting):
"Now shout out your gratitude and choose your cupcake!"
Milo (smiling, holding cupcake):
"I frosted them with ground pine nuts and intention!"

Panel 3:
Setting: A new group is gathered around the cupcake table: a worried-looking Finley (goldfish), a skeptical black cat, and department head, Donna Lake.
Finley (anxiously):
"What if I choose wrong?"
"Does my mind get full and explode?"

Panel 4:
Setting: Close-up of Donna Lake holding a cupcake labeled “Quiet Escape.” A glowing aura surrounds it. The black cat looks at Donna and the cupcake in a pouncing position.
No dialogue.

Panel 5:
Setting: Back to Forge and the group. Forge is yelling energetically while characters shout their gratitudes.
Forge (shouting):
"Let me hear your gratitude!"
Goldfish:
"My bathtub!"
Other speech bubbles (unseen characters):
"Coffee!"
"Saturday!"
"Alphabetization!"
Behind Forge, Donna is seen exclaiming in shock- partially out of the frame.

Panel 6:
Setting: Close-up view from Donna’s perspective, holding a cupcake with frosting that reads:
"This is your circus, and these are your monkeys – enjoy."
Donna’s hands are scratched and slightly bleeding. Forge is in the background, still yelling. The black cat, following the glow emanating from the stolen “Quiet Escape” cupcake , sneaks out of the meeting.