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I don't think she wants you in her gang, False Brother Jacaranda.

I feel the need to say explicitly that Lady Ilganyag cannot manufacture artificial memories. It probably wasn't apparent enough when she was with Duane, but she could only use his own experiences on him. She'd slide her way into those memories, take on identities of people from his past, but she cannot just conjure this stuff from nowhere.So what Sette saw in her nest - and in fact what Duane saw in Alderode's future - are all real. We don't necessarily know the context, but they're real things that will happen. They can potentially be overwritten by timeline changes - nearly anything can - but otherwise they are inevitable.

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Capsandnumbers

If they were inevitable and Sette couldn't choose something different then Lady I wouldn't have had to show her that memory to prove it. It would be enough for Lady I to have seen the memory. I think Sette can probably reject fate if she wants to.

Kay

I'm positive that 'the man' isn't Ssael because of the line about cruelty, which Lady Ilganyag has said at least thrice now. Given that one of the pillars of Ssaelism is rejecting the twins sacrifice, there's just no way for them to be the same person

Rifter

Man it feels like the entire weight of every event in the story is being held back by this one page. Sette gripping that silver is like pulling the nail that breaks the dam. Seems like it's all gonna change after this. It's gonna be a long wait this weekend.

L Anon

"Help us or the lizard will [open her cage]". Seems like helping them and opening her cage may not be the same thing, hmm?

Renee

Nothing substantive to add, but I really like the panel of tittybird pushing Sette forward. The contrast of the pure black to the color of the khert is quite evocative

CD

Feelin' real Minority Report about Sessine's insistence on inevitability here. "The others didn't see their futures. You can still choose!" Also, 'beloved' 😭 Man. Sette has been abandoned in so many times and ways in her life, but THAT one triggered the clock, huh.

Michael Stakely

A real internal battle has to be raging here. Betraying a fellow Frummagem for your own benefit is one thing but for somebody else? Somebody else that's not even an honorary Frummagem themselves on top of that?

Fitzy

"It's done, it's already decided, now you just gotta do it" Laying the peer pressure on a bit thick there aye?

JarJar

It just suddenly hit me with this page, but yeah I really miss Duane. Granted he'd be less than useless here, but still.

Rogbull

Keep blaming your ex, but you've recently been gloating about writing this particular cruel life for our Sette yourself. Worst mom just wants to lose her khert ankle monitor to find dudes and blow with a fake story of "I'm doing it cause I love you and your brother"!

Noxae

Love that panel of the Lady's talon on Sette's shoulder!

dzefs

Love to imagine the AU where Jacaranda made it past character creation this incarnation cycle, and Hairyarse Frummagen was a proper rogue in the Longarse Frummagen freak patrol Or he was until he becomes a lion monk when Sette hits the sackerficin' age

Penny Nicoles

I can't believe anadyne is still conscious enough to have opinions about what's happening to her. Poor, poor anadyne. I JUST WANT HER TO BE HAPPY!!!!! But how could she possibly recover from her multi-faceted trauma? I can't imagine it.

L Anon

I went back to p. 18_56, and it looks like the First Soul is dead there. The First Soul isn’t supposed to die, but to be reincarnated there; it suggests that whatever happens with that future flash Sette saw, it will destroy the First Soul for good. Ilganyag wanted her to see that. I wonder if there’s a chance that Sette does something else entirely— that she tells all the pain in the silver to obey her and turn on Ilganyag, and that’s what we saw in that memory’s third panel. I suspect there’s a good chance that this memory is actually a fork in the road— a chance for Sette to chose differently. But ilganyag is trying to nudge her to see the memory a different way, to change that future. It’s all about perception: is it a memory of Sette obeying Ilganyag, or defying her? Ilganyag says it’s the former.

Judith Bradford

So the story thy are supposed to live out is always being born twins, and the older one letting the younger be holy murdered. NICE PARENTS YOU GOT THERE!

Judith Bradford

Quite sure the importance of "cruelty" in this narrative isn't as simple as sadism. He wants the soul to encounter cruelty before coming to the khert.... perhaps to re-build a godhead that shys away from infliction of pointless pain.