Maeye: This is definitely the right way. My camp should be just through there.
1b.
Arayanna: Maeye, please wait a moment. I must tell you something.
1c.
Arayanna: I am sensing a great deal of death just ahead of us. I think you need to prepare yourself for the worst.
Maeye: I know. I... I feel it too.
3b.
Maeye: Oh, Uncle. This is no way for a Festiv to die.
Arayanna: Come, Maeye. There are tools here...
Arayanna: We can at least protect them from weather and beast.
5a.
Maeye: Fair Epsca, I give you the souls of four of your Festivs. May they sing and dance with you amongst the start.
Arayanna: Maeye, this is the second time you have said Festiv. May I ask you what that means?
Maeye: Festivs? That's what my people are. We are like traveling performers. We move from city to city, town to town celebrating life with all the people of Prentil.
Arayanna: You travel the whole of Prentil in such a small band?
Maeye: Oh no. The Festivs are 300 strong. Singers and dancers, jesters and musicians, provisioners and followers.
Maeye: Cousin Pretah had lost some of her sheep. Uncle and I and some others stayed behind to help her recover them.
Maeye: Silly Pretah. She is always losing...
5b.
Maeye: Pretah! Where is Pretah!!
Was going to say: we see 3 bodies, but only 2 are on the cart, but seeing how Mae mentions the souls of four Festivs, they must have made 2 trips (not sure why they didn’t/couldn’t fit them all in the cart)
Couple points about the artwork today (positive points, not negative :D)
It looks like that spear entered Uncle from the front, and him falling on it pushed it all the way through (feels slightly better that he died facing the bull rather than get it in the back)
The lightning in panel 8 looks like it is hitting Aray’s pickaxe and then hitting the ground (very well placed imo)
Hoping there will not be need of a 3rd grave, but the fact her body was not there indicates the Bulls (or their owner) wanted/took her for some reason, so good possiblity she is still alive
As always, thanks for the comments!
Uncle did get it in the back – the spear actually extends several feet into the ground. Stabbed in the back and pinned to the ground with his own spear. Not a good way to go.
There are actually 4 bodies, but one is difficult to see. I originally had more carting and digging panels, but it seemed like it was getting a little tedious so I shortened it up a bit. So the rest of the work is implied.
And I agree with you – I hope there is no more need for graves on this lonely hill. We will have to wait and see. 🙂
Her relatives are avenged, however the sorcerer still will feel the full of their vengeance. Why do I think Arayanna may just know the sorcerer?
This is definitely far from over. Maeye will want her vengeance!!
There looks to be a pool of blood near Uncle’s body, so hopefully he managed to at least hurt one of those bulls
Ah and here I was wanting to give you guild trip about lack of page but alas there is page.Oh well next time.
Though the camp looks a bit funny like it was looted and not looted at the same time. Barrels not crushed and so on.
Don’t think the Minotaurs were after look, think they were just in a Blood Rage.
The Minox were there for a very specific reason. We will touch on this soon. 🙂
The lightning in this scene is great, but the one behind Ary in panel 10 seems awfully close. Maybe mage Ary isn’t worried about lightning, but Maeye might be vulnerable. Me? I’d be hiding under the wagon – shame to survive a fall like that and be electrocuted before you finish burying your uncle…
Just a minor note about the “sneak peak” vote incentive ad:
It sounds like you are talking about a ‘surreptitious mountain top’, and not an ‘early look’. For that, you would need to use “peek”.
Have you seen the twin peaks on Fiet?
LOL!
That lightening is a little close. Maybe next time I will work on pushing it back into the scene a bit.
It was cool watching you make this during my power outage.
Yea man. That was a good time!
The “peak” has been corrected. Thank you!
Hey unless you’re going for the pun you have a point peaking through the Vote for Us ad.
Dammit!! Multiple typos! I am firing my editor.
Ok. I fixed it again again.
Good news friends! Thanks to several snow storms resulting in several days of working from home, our next page is nearly complete. I expect to publish in a couple of days. 🙂
Who are all the women that keep poping up on The Great Isle of Prentil header, The Red Head ain’t Maye. Unless Maye took evil pills.
Fairly sure they are Mae and Aray, just not ‘canon’
Two of them are Aray, one is Maeye, and one is someone we have not met yet. She will make an appearance much later in the story. I think I will swap her out and put one of Fiet up there. And maybe a Minox or something.
A Minox in a sexy pose? AndyO managed to have one of his female K`Sel do a sexy pose on a couch (just because they are not mammals doesn’t mean they can’t pose like one :P)
Is the long haired red, Aray’s ex?
Sexy minox? Not sure about that one. LOL. 🙂 The red head is an ex friend of Arayanna’s. One of the few other people to be named in the comic so far.
Just an ex friend? Or the ex-friend (the one who has the match to the dagger)?
The next page will be up first thing tomorrow morning. 😀