Edit: 08/2022 re uploaded.

Learning moment: From the last page and this one, paying attention to the world tentpoles I’m erecting with dialogue. They live in a state, “threshold modifiers” are magical(??) items that exist, institutions exist, written research that is available to the public exists, and a postal service exists. Some of those things are relevant, some are not. Remembering these is actually easier when I’m hopping around to different scenes as I draw the story from its thumbnails – everything now builds to later things. It’s just… such a slow process.