Bk1: Ch9: Pg24
Irio: You have fought well, Arayanna Theydrihn. You have entertained me and my guests.
Irio: It is my pleasure to grant you a boon. Speak your request.
1b.
Arayanna: I ask that you pronounce Maeye Festiva innocent and release her immediately.
2a.
Irio: And rob my guests of the spectacle of you locked in battle with my champion?
Irio: No, Arayanna Theydrihn, this I will not do. Ask again.
2b.
Arayanna: Alright. If this is to be my last night, then I would spend it with the woman I love. I ask that you allow us to be together this night.
2c.
Irio: This I will do. I pray you enjoy yourselves.
3a.
Arayanna: By The Maker I am a mess.
3b.
Arayanna: Maeye!
3c.
Arayanna: Oh. Can I help you?
Hishana: Good evening. I am Hishana. Guardian Irio has sent me to care for you.
Arayanna: Where is Maeye?
Hishana: She will be along shortly.
4a.
Hishana: Come gentlemen. Right over there will be fine.
Arayanna: Really, this is not necessary. I just want to...
Hishana: Please. I must insist. These are my Lord's orders.
Arayanna: Alright. But please, make this quick.
4b.
Hishana: Of course.
Hishana: Now, up you go...
5a.
Hishana: Thank you, gentlemen. Just over there will be fine. Have the servants bring hot water, soap and perfumes, please.
5b.
Hishana: You are just a bundle of injuries, aren't you.
6a.
Arayanna: Ouch!
Hishana: Oh my. I am sorry, dear. I will be more careful.
6b.
Hishana: Alright. Let's get you rolled over. Are the oils helping with the injuries?
Arayanna: Well, they are helping me relax.
Hishana: That is something then.
Hishana: Your friend will be here soon, and you will be right as rain when she gets here.
7b.
Hishana: She has at least four broken ribs on her left side, broken bones in her right hand, serious bruising along her
throat and abdomen, and her left eye is severely swollen.
8a.
Hooded Man: Well done.
Hishana: It is always my pleasure to serve.
Won’t he be surprised when she’s fully healed for the next round?
Hehe. Yes he will. 😀
Something tells me Maeye’s little healing trick on the other combatant may already be known.
They’re testing to see if she’ll heal up Arayanna, then disqualify them !
Careful careful you two girls!!
I disagreem JRL. I don’t remember any rules stated against healing – it seems to be a rare enough capability that it’s not expected any combattants would be able to arrange it between bouts. I think big and brawny there was the final champion wanting to know what weaknesses his future opponent has, so that he can use them against her in their forthcoming fight. If he needs to fight all potential winners so that the lucrative spectacle of executions can be assured, he’ll want those fights to end as quickly, and with as little risk to himself, as possible. He may be in for a surprise.
I think what would get them in trouble is there is no way to heal from all that without magic, and of course, magic is outlawed. Here in Foytt it is more taboo than outlawed, but still, it would raise some eyebrows. And it would give Irio an opportunity to extend things if he wanted to be a dick about it.
Good guess on Big and Brawny. 😀
I’m pretty sure I can see a goatee/beard through the blur effect. Rigging your contest, Irio?
A new way for everything to turn out just fine or two just appeared. And as luck would have it, there’s an *assassin* who might be thought dead and not worth watching…
You might be right about the beard/goatee, but Irio has either a Franz Joseph or a Souvarov, with a bare chin, so it’s not him.
Ah, I missed that he doesn’t have a beard. Nice catch.
His hand is the wrong skintone for it to be Irio, I think.
Might be the “champion”, though.
The assassin might still come in handy later if she’s grateful for her life.
He’s massive too, so I am thinking Champion is a good guess. 😀
Looking in Irio’s face I wonder if he has other plans when Aray and Maeye are together.
Isn’t it kinda ironic that they take care of Aray before the next fight (if there is another fight, mind you.) On the other hand, Irio wants to do anything just to keep his guests entertained.
Hishana knows a lot about medics to be able to find out what Aray’s injuries are. I was surprised when I read it.
In panel 11 ‘gentlement’ has a T too much.
I am going to change the name of this to “The Great Typos of Prentil.” LOL!!
Yes – there is definitely seems to be something more to this Hishana lady other than just being a masseuse.
Maeye may not know what is going on, but she’s not stupid
True that!
Didn’t Aray and Maeye have the tattoos on opposite sides? So when they lay together they line up?
Yes, see the happy valentine’s day of 2018.
There you’ll see them getting the tattoo.
Have every invotive since this started (and as many variants as possible) 😀
Was just a bit confused, because both this page and the current invotive with Maeye has the heart on the left
What you see on the left side of Arayanna in this page is not the heart tattoo, but her tree-like large one and bruising or dried blood.
Correct! That actually confused me too when I first looked at it, and I did it! LOL
Bruising that just happens to be in the shape of a half-heart? o_O
Wait, three fingers and a thumb? That dude ain’t human!
I think the sheer size of him is a stronger argument for him being non-human than missing a finger. In some lines of work fingers are rather easy to lose.
He’s definitely ridiculously big for a human, if he is human. 😀