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Three pages today, I just couldn't see posting these separately. Ah, we can only go up from here!

Someone suggested recently I'm maybe a little too explicitly talky about what's going on in the pages and I'd hate if that's the case. I'll try to only offer additional commentary if I'm directly asked for clarification :) We have seen Sette's new friend before in the comic - very recently, very briefly - but we don't know who or what it is. We'll find out.

Otherwise, this is a very bad day for Sette. Maybe even her last :(

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Ben Dennard

I'm going to wait for smarter commenters than me to start theorizing, but just know I am very much enjoying the ride.

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fwiw i think you are a perfect amount of talky, especially since this is a Huge Moment. you give clarification but no spoilers.

Mister Scarecrow

Honestly I've been unsure how to fully process what I'm seeing and feeling from these last few pages, and I think that's a normal and expected response. Especially since I have not as yet done my full re-read of the chapter, but good grief what a mess this is for our lass, eh?

Stillpoint

His tether's gone; RIP Duane. He was nice while he lasted, bit of a shit but he mostly tried where it mostly counted. Mostly. Sad to see him go, but not all narrative arcs get finished.

Rifter

Anyone else sad af right now?...

metrocube

God this is so intense - poor Sette! I'm so glad I get to support this comic, Ashley!

Blue

The two loneliest people in the world hurting each other. That's some tragic shit. We finally see Duane die in the Khert. Well he didn't scatter and the Poncho might be keeping him alive. Curious to see how he comes together and if he can see what the poncho memory has in there. IF he does. And.. Sette vs Duane. Sette won. I'm sad. Sad as hell. :( She is the strongest in the verse right now. Duane stood no chance. Great pages. Also Sette's hands look like they're fully matured. Full blown Lion Claws. She probably don't need Toby's dagger anymore for sure. So she knew her father threw her mother in the sea. Damn. The pages where she stabbed him, and they 're both are crying is love. Beautiful pages.

Fitzy

If Duane wasn't already dead I'd say that looked lethal. I'm not feeling great about his chances ngl Brutal sequence so far, IDK if I've gotten quite this feeling reading a comic since the eclipse arc in Berserk

Kay

DID...she just...nooo. but srsly I adore your commentary, some artists/storytellers try to be so cryptic, but I find your ways refreshing.

GracieV

Brilliant and tragic pages, beautifully done! I love your talkiness, adds spice to the story and helps me understand what's going on and where you are coming from, I hope that you don't stop. That's one of the biggest reasons I'm on Patreon (other than supporting an artist I admire) - the inside tidbits and clarifications.

CD

This is one of those sequences where I don't feel like I CAN comment on it properly until it's all done, so just know I'm sitting here all mentally white-knuckled. That bit in the movie theatre where everyone gasps at the same time. Settetainia got real spaghetti'd.

Ladile

While my mind still wants to noodle over theories, this is the point where I think I'm going to just sit back, ride the flow of the story, and allow myself to be pleasantly surprised/dismayed by whatever answers may come!

JarJar

It's crazy, but after last update's cliffhanger I was expecting a full on eldritch horror on this page. Like some kinda crazy Sette kaiju monster form or something? But then we get to this update and Sette's definitely powerful, but she's just so... so... goddamn lonely. And desperate. All she wants is for her friend to stay with her. A friendship that she partly acknowledges might not even be real, but it's the closest thing she's got to love. For that, she's willing to say anything. Offer him anything. So when Duane still tries to run away....treats her like some monster to be escaped from, like everyone else has-- it just snaps her heart in half. And in her anger and frustration she kills (?) him. Then freakin balls her eyes out. It's such a tragedy...

SET

I like to hear what you gotta say Glass! Even if its cryptic at times. Im still gnawing on the bone that leyesa had a 'look' on her during one of duanes flashbacks

Cassie

I don't think I've felt the update schedule this deeply in my soul since the Duane Assassination pages first started dropping.

Nikaleles

gurl you just talk as much as you goddamn want. i assure you we're all rapt

LordOfChains

It ain't an eel... it's a phoenix?

Renee

Well fuck

Capsandnumbers

What a crazy week! It's so curious that a couple of these eels look like Inak. Makes me want to complete the square and imagine a fourth race that looks like squishes

Rion Boom Crabhands Keon

> Someone suggested recently I'm maybe a little too explicitly talky about what's going on in the pages and I'd hate if that's the case. No, it's perfect! I enjoy reading all of your comments, it's a main reason I'm here as a patreon!

Noxae

What a climax, aaaah! Lion Sette killing her dad figure... and what is that bird in her hair... I love it. I don't think you're giving away too much when you talk about the comic! I love seeing your thoughts on your own creation, they're always so interesting.

Ava

Potion Seller, Potion Seller please, I've decided I must put your strongest potions back on the shelf and instead want baby potions. Weaker potions. E.G: Ashleeeeeyyyy you're tearing me apartttt; better than any of my surgeon's scalpels and I just wished these two to have some happy days, but... As others have said, the million shades of differing trauma, upbringing and circumstance, pushed together by a scarlet, dark crow's machinations surely wouldn't allow it. I've been looking at this trio of pages in shock throughout the day since I woke up and keep thinking "Duane can't be gone... But Sette, please... You poor thing" 🥺

Madison

Act 2 low point… our heroes have torn themselves open and spilled it all on the table. Now… keep going, Sette and Duane…

Butterfree/Dragonfree/antialiasis

Lady Ilganyag’s ‘soul’, perhaps, and Sette and her ability to transcend the boundaries is her way out of the Khert and to her new silver body?

Butterfree/Dragonfree/antialiasis

“I’ve killed the one I loved” reminds me of how Sessine mourned Ssael back in the Khert a while back - appropriate if Sette’s standing in for her and Duane for Ssael. (Also, Sessine is definitely the inspiration for Tirna, right?)

T

You do you, Ashley. I enjoy the comments. Also I ain't as smart as some readers who have predicted stuff many years ago, so these comments help me if I'm feeling lost.

Madison

Also I love Discord peeps- Sette is a Lion with a crow caught in her hair… 👀

Ellie

I try to avert my eyes from your commentary until after I've read the pages, but that is sometimes hard! I appreciate the decision to be less spoilery in the Patreon remarks. Explicit comments in the comment section are not a problem.

Nope Noperson

Those eels Sette is standing on… one looks like it has Ruffles’ ruffles and the other has Cutter’s hat-knives in its eyes. I wonder why they’re here…

CelebrenIthil

Reading those pages called forth the "the mistake we've made" line from Sessine and the "she's never happy" line from Minnow unprompted to my mind...

Rogbull

Man, if only Duane had a little more courage, he could've redeemed this world with his lion daugther.

HandsomePenguin

The Pain, the ANGER, the sadness and confusion. The facial expressions on these three pages are just telling a whole story of their own. This is just wonderful.

Rob N

I just remembered another sad song that Sette could sing: This one goes out to the one I loved This one goes out to the one I've left behind A simple ghost that occupied my time This one goes out to the one I loved

Kay

I didn't actually believe Duane died here when it was first posted :< I had a strong feeling he wouldn't survive this book but I didn't dream that this is how it would go