Arguably one of the most spatially complicated spreads in the book is in issue 5 on pages 18 and 19.
The time in this panel is measured once again by the dialogue. What is not readily apparent, though, is that space seems to be measured by the dialogue as well. What appear at first glance to be panels containing symbols and images laid over a continuous background are in fact backgrounds that, at certain points in time, become the continuous background themselves. As the characters fly over each panel, the symbols and colors shown within that panel are actually being experienced by the characters as an entire environment, as filling the immediate area around them for as long as the dialogue placed over that panel takes. This is proven by the dialogue on page 19 as the characters fly over the red panel characterized by the symbols of the scales and the sword:
Sophie: "Whoah! Th-the weather feels like it's getting rougher!"
Margaret: " We're moving through the stern and martial stratospheres of universal judgement, tilting in the very balance of the cosmos. Hold tight, Sophie. Hold tight..."
Sophie: "...Where did all these rain clouds come from?
Margaret: "Past universal judgement are the sheltering, Jupiterian skies of universal mercy, where the gods of storm and lightning play."
It can be seen from this dialogue that the characters are experiencing these thematic panels not just as images projected in space, but as dynamic, physical spaces. This is further proven by the final panel of the page, referred to by Margaret as the "skies of universal mercy", where we see the lightning not only inside the panel, but outside as well.
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