Bk1: Ch9: Pg2
1a.
Nihklas: Finally. There she is.
Nihklas: Home.
Sansraen: It's beautiful.
2a.
Sansraen: It is a shame Cat did not join us. It seemed like the two of you really hit it off.
3b. Krag on his horse.
Kraghen: Mmm.
4a.
Nihklas: Guess who's back!
4b.
Maeye: Nihklas! You made it!
Arayanna: Welcome back.
Kraghen: Good to be back.
Sansraen: Shalla?
5a.
Nihklas: Maeye, Arayanna, this is Sans...
Nihklas: What's wrong?
Sansraen: Shalla? What are you doing here?
Maeye: Who is Shalla? Why do you keep calling me that?
5b.
Nihklas: Sansraen, this is my friend, Maeye, that I told you about.
Sansraen: No, this is my Shalla.
Maeye: I'm sorry. What are you talking about?
6a.
Sansraen: Your hair is different...but you have the same crazy green eyes...and...
Maeye: Lady, you're kinda freaking me out.
Nihklas: Sans...Hon...What is it?
6b.
Sansraen: I don't understand. This...Maeye...looks exactly like my best friend Shalla.
Maeye: Hon?
7a.
Arayanna: Are you certain?
Sansraen: Without a doubt.
Maeye: He called her hon.
7b.
Arayanna: Maeye. Don't you realize what this means?
Maeye: Yes. Nihklas and Sans are making babies.
8a.
Arayanna: What? No. Not that.
8b.
Arayanna: Maeye. Shalla has to be your twin sister.
Maeye: My sister?
Kraghen: Her sister?
Ah, Kragh, of course he would be interested.
Since he can’t have one, he’s gotta pursue the other twin.
Yup!
The plot thickens!
If it gets any thicker it’s going to become a solid.
I went back through the first couple chapters, but didn’t see anything about Maeye’s sister. Did it come up at some point that she was adopted or something?
I seem to recall that, many chapters ago, it was explained that she was sort of adopted by her uncle and the gypsies. I’m just not surprised that Maeye has a past that was lost or hidden from her.
Yeah, the only mention of any other family were her two cousins, Pretah and Nori
Will wait see how Mae and Shalla separation (and Mae’s memory of her ‘blocked’) shall (:P) be explained 🙂
Wasn’t there something about her bloodline always having twins?
Bingo!!
BTW: That is a very nice view. And I’m always amazed at how well you do lighting.
That said, I don’t think that river looks quite right. It probably should have been scaled up a bit more because, to me, it looks more like a dug trench filled with water – albeit one that looks naturally-curved.
It’s the slopes. They are too even and steep. In real rivers the banks change from steep to shallow inclines, based on (and I am massively oversimplifying here) water speed. That said, a new river—such as one formed from a dike breach—can cut through loam like a not knife through butter.
Here in southern Pennsylvania we have these rivers or streams that meander through the fields. They are generally only a few feet deep and a few feet wide and they twist and turn on these crazy curves. That is the look I was going for.
This river is part of the reason this page is so late. I got tired of having to fit my terrains around the products I could find and buy so I decided to try to make my own. It was a bitch! Not sure I’ll try again. Lol.
And thank you for the compliments. That scene took a heck of a lot of time to get right.
Beautiful landscape, Feori.
Thank you!!
Was going to wait for a new page to comment on the invotive and how the new actress for Maeye really looks different from the original
Maeye is maturing. :). She does look different but I think it is improvement.
Going to have to get used to the new hairstyle
Maturing? You sure about that? Specially as seen in panels ten and thirteen 😛
Was half expecting Shalla to be the ghost inhabiting Maeye, and somehow Sans was able to ‘see’ her
Oh shit! That would have been interesting! Never thought of that.
No reason why it still can’t be, would explain why she ‘hi-jacked’ Mae’s body so easily 🙂
Umm, what happened to Aray’s white patch of hair? o_O
It’s there. She braided it and tucked it under her hair. You can see it best in panels 12 and 14.
Saw that, thought it was just a feather 🙁
Also thought maybe she had combed it through the rest of her hair, probably just the lighting
“Nihklas and Sans are making babies!”
Oh Maeye… Never change, you sweet child.