Carbon Copies | Page 6

(Carbon traces her finger over a canvas on an easel, leaving a dark graphite arc.)
Carbon: Our properties, talents, and strengths are so different…

(Diamond continues tracing the arc, slicing a hole in the canvas.)
Diamond: …you might be surprised that we’re the same element!

(Graphene brings her fist down on the easel, denting it.)
Graphene: We allotropes might share the same body…

Carbon, Diamond, Graphene (together): …but we are far from carbon copies.