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Chris wakes up inside the architecture of his own mind - and discovers someone has been redecorating.

30 panels! There's a lot of plates in the air for this season - and at some point, they'll all come crashing down. 😊

Can't wait for your thoughts!

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Gemma

What amazing and beautiful images you have created, equally matched by the deep psychological intrigue thriller you have created. You certainly have left us all wondering the key to this mystery and which door, or what realisation will unlock Chris from Kris’s prison. I do have to say, I loved the provocatively stunning, attractive POV’s in images 14 and 15 of Chris/Kris.

Ella Cherry

Love the architecture of the mind concept! The story gets more interesting with each chapter!

Tiki D

I really like how Chris's memories are changing mentally as Kris's memories are taking over his/her formal life and mindscape. 😎

Jade Diaz

I mean no offense Chris but I don’t want you back in charge

Tiki D

Emory, I came up with another idea for a Halloween story. What if Chris within Kris was too late to save what is left of his formal life and mind and fully become Kris permanently?

Tiki D

Me either.

Jenny S

We are in some WILD territory, and I love it! This is such a fun, unique way to explore Chris and Kris's characters, and I can't wait to see what's behind more of these doors! I wonder if Chris not being able to see Isaiah's face is just a general corruption of his memories, or it's Kris going "yeah, she's Isa now, better to not remember her as she was." Cami's psychological-first approach to feminizing Ben feels unique across the Xuniverse. So far feminization has been kicked off with forced medical action, hormones given either secretly and forcefully and/or an orchi. Mr. Xu, Mrs. Ferris, Bella, they all get their victims to a biological point of no return first before they accept their fate. Cami wanting to convince Ben to take hormones by his own hand before anything else feels like an amateur move compared to the forcefem masters, but who knows, maybe she's on to something. Good luck getting the law involved, Kayla, but it's gonna be a struggle making anything stick. Amazing work as always, Emory! <3

Jessika

I knew Kayla was going to be an issue. But it may be the only thing to push Kris into saving Benji.

Alex Cioranic-Alex From the Tri-Cities

I can't believe you actually wrote two FEMALE characters that I'm starting to hate MORE than Xu, Davis, Hutchinson, Lockridge and Kaschak in less than 25 panels. TRULY, dearest muse, you never cease to outdo yourself and amaze your readers with loathesome, morally revolting, sociopaths wearing badges and human skin. Even Dr. Elizabeth Hatcher seems normal compared to Camila and Bella.

Crewchick

First and foremost, always the artwork is amazing! I am still not thrilled with Kris's complicity in turning her best friend over to Bella for any reason. But these first two episodes do have have a high degree of cerebral engagement and thought that I do find fascinating. We are also finally getting a little more background on Bella and Camila. I have to admit the psychology behind your villains is always a intriguing part of the story telling. I am sure Bella's and Camila's stories won't disappoint. And while many would likely disagree here, I am finding Kayla a real unsung heroine and figure of female empowerment in the story. Despite all that has happened to her, she is keeping her wits about her and using her education, training, skills and experience to try and save the men she loves, when no one else seems interested or will to go out of their way to do so. Maybe if she can get the police to act quick enough she can at least save Ben, if not Chris. And as beautiful as Kris is, and as much as so many of us love her, being a victim is never justification for becoming a villain. Justice needs to prevail and accounts need to be balanced. Had she had a Jiminey Cricket on her shoulder, he likely would have been doing back flips trying to wave her off from turning over Ben to Camila. If Kris wants to be a "real boy" errr "real girl" then that means being accountable and accepting responsibility for her actions. It would be a real shame and literary irony if Kris sacrificed Ben to save her relationship with Allen, only to lose Allen and that life due to a prison sentence (in a men's prison) and Allen's shock and disgust at her willingness to sacrifice a life time friend and brother in all but blood, to a fate that might still literally result in Ben's physical death. The other thing I am curious or confused about is Chris' image in the 'mind palace". You have established that Chris knows he is not in a physical reality but dealing with a creation wholly of the mind. We are seeing Kris rewriting or over righting her memories over Chris's far older memories. But Chris seems to have his own autonomy and acknowledges he still has the ability to counter or rewrite Kris's memory re-scaping. So why does Kris look like the idealized "Kris" in this state? Absolutely more visually stimulating for the reader, no doubt. But if this is all with in the mind of and from the perspective of Chris, I would think the Chris in the hall would look like pre-kidnappped Chris. a perspective that still sees himself as he identifies. Or maybe at least as Chapter one short haired Chris/Kris. Acknowledging that physical changes were made, but refusing to fully surrender. I get that as the scene starts Chris might look like Kris right before Bella released her, believing he/she was conscious and still in Bella's prison. But once Chris made the realization he was in a mind palace, his id image would revert to the one he still internally identifies with and has know his whole life. If he is rejecting Kris' control and trying to reassert his own autonomy over his own mind, I would think that would mean presenting in his minds own real time as he still internally identifies. I am not complaining about the images, they are exquisite. I just don't think Chris would keep looking like Kris, once he knows he is operating within a universe within his own mind that he can control and manipulate as much as Kris can. I know I am the outlier here, cheering on Kayla and holding Kris in a very critical (if still visually appreciative) eye. Just kind of the way I am wired, I guess. I have always had a low tolerance for injustice. I know justice does not always win in the real world, but I refuse to condone or accept it as a norm. I don't expect my heroes to always win and hand have happy endings. I do expect them to never surrender their moral compass or embrace injustice as acceptable when justice can't prevail. And yeah, I already know it is me, not any of you. But I also know the mental and emotional gymnastics are only just beginning, and if anyone may have a plan to right this all in some way by the ending, it is Emory. So while I am not really happy where things are now, I and still fully committed to the ride.

Emory Ahlberg

I get it. Kris has Alan, holidays, pancakes, a ten-year-old lobbying for a dog... Meanwhile, Chris wants to haul all of that back to Kayla’s living room and... what? That’s a tough sell. But Chris watched Kris let that van drive off with Ben in it!

Emory Ahlberg

Thank you, Gemma! Which door is the big question... or if it will even work! Or is Kris's personality now too strong? And I’m so glad those POV shots were fun for you. I loved making them!💕

Emory Ahlberg

Thanks, Ella! Kinda nuts how even inside Chris’s own head, the floor plan belongs to Bella. Yikes!

Emory Ahlberg

Thanks, Tiki! The Kayla date was the most cruel to write for Chris. Whatever’s doing the rewriting doesn’t always delete the memory, sometimes at first it keeps the wine and candle and swaps out who’s sitting across the table!

Emory Ahlberg

Oof... Tiki, you pitched me the bleakest ending I can think of! Kris would approve. But you’re thinking like a horror writer for sure!

Emory Ahlberg

Thank you, Jenny! 💕 Good theory on Isaiah’s face. And Kris certainly has more reasons than anybody to not want to look at it. Isaiah tried to get her out and paid for it with more than a year in that basement. And yeah... Bella wants a body on the table (that is her happy place), but Cami wants Ben to dose himself, because she doesn’t want a prisoner. Will it work? Probably not in the way she wants. Good luck to Kayla is right. Bella obviously has strong connections!

Jade Diaz

Let me call the wahhhhhhhhhhhhm-bulance for you, Chris

Jessika

...and also notice how Bella doesn't have the mask on. Remember her office scene from way back with the mask and a scarred mask under it. Will be very interesting to see who Bella is and why the mask(s). Reminds me of the Moriarty/M Character from the League of Extraodinary Gentlemen Movie.

Elrod W

Homecoming - wow. Just wow. Delicious and unexpected turn of events. Had a thought for a really disturbing outcome - where nobody wins. Kris/Chris get stuck in the 'hallway' trying to figure out who is what, and which memories are true and false. Institutionalized after major breakdown. Kayla - becomes aggressive toward Kris, is to be jailed for assault, but mental exam has her innocent due to mental breakdown and she leaves city to try to forget and restart her life. Ben - breaks. Totally. Under changes, hormones, and taunting, all resistance crumbles and he becomes subservient little bitch-boy, just what his 'partner' wants.

Emory Ahlberg

Thanks, Jessika! Kayla’s the one person Kris can’t charm, outrun, or tase, which makes her a problem for everybody. And Kris never shut off the phone Kayla bought her. Make of that what you will.

Emory Ahlberg

And yes! As always, good eye, Jessika! Now, all we get of Bella in that hallway is the back of her head... but she has hari! No mask, because the only person she’s talking to is Camila.... which I think says a lot about those two. And I’ll take the Moriarty comparison! I'd say tunning a whole operation from behind a mask while everybody else does the bleeding puts her in good company.

Emory Ahlberg

The difference with Camila is she thinks she’s the reasonable one. Bella will tell you to your face she’s a sadist.

Emory Ahlberg

Diana, I love this comment. And I don’t think you’re as much of an outlier as you think, at least with me. Kris stood on that beach and said “take him” to Camilla and then weeks later she’s making pancakes in Alan’s kitchen. I think you’re right to want consequences for that. Crying over Dustin’s letter doesn’t make it okay. And Kris DID have a Jiminy Cricket.... who she locked in a room in her mind. Kayla’s also been doing her homework this whole time. She is not going to let Chris go without a fight - and she saw the switch happen in real time back in their bedroom. As for the mind palace, Chris doesn’t really have control over how he appears there - at least not yet. You can see that in the bistro scene. Chris remembers flannel, but then he’s wearing a red dress. When he tries to push back, Kayla becomes Alan. I think knowing something is wrong and being able to change it are two very different things. But I think you and I are closer on this than you think!

Emory Ahlberg

Thanks, Elrod! 💖 Between you and Tiki, my comment section’s turning into a horror writers’ room! 🤣 Chris and Kris stuck in that hallway forever, fighting over which memory-plaques are real, is the scariest version of the lot. Although, holy shit is it creative. On Ben, though, a broken yes-man might not be what Cami’s after. She keeps saying “partner.” Bella’s the one who gets bored once they stop fighting. Also, Kayla would never let anybody else handle her defense. She’d represent herself and walk, hehe

Crewchick

That's just cold! ❄ 🥶

Jade Diaz

He chopped off Kris’s luscious hair! That’s a hate crime!