A quiet moment for Michelle: flying over the Irish Sea in a magic bubble created by a dragon. Why wouldn’t you fall asleep?
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A quiet moment for Michelle: flying over the Irish Sea in a magic bubble created by a dragon. Why wouldn’t you fall asleep?
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This day probably felt for her as if it had lasted month. She really deserves that nap.
For us it has lasted literal years.
That red-eye flight back home from a grueling business trip…!
And she actually went all through hell!
Land ahead! Poor Mish, she is exhausted. And poor Bloodcarver. We can now see the full extend of his injuries, wings included. I do hope they will heal now that he is in the ‘normal’ world.
Not just his healing… also what will happen with his family situation, he did mention a wife… poor sad bugger’s situation just keeps getting worse. I do feel for him as he seems to be trying his best to do what he perceives as the right thing.
I doubt that Dr. Hobbes has ever had such a large patient …
Mish is absolutely wiped out, which raises another question: how long has it been since Bloodcarver was allowed to sleep? He has a long journey ahead of him still.
The convention schedule says 2024.
Well, this is going to shake things up. How do you hide a depressed and disillusioned dragon the size of BC?
Once it is confirmed that Dragons are still around I’m sure folks will start to think more about Sphinxes.
It will probably be a bit of a lift to convince people to get a bunch of angry and at least in part deranged dragons back from hell back into the world…!
It doesn’t look as if Michelle needs to suppress a panic attack like she did for the “friggin’ billion-hour plane ride” from the U.S. Between exhaustion and trust, there’s no panic.
No, just curling up in her tight economy seat and falling asleep even so!
She trusts that she may not be entirely comfortable, but still in a safe pair of hands – literally.
A sphere is considerably more comfortable than an upright economy class seat, though. Given a choice on which I’d ride in, I’d go for the sphere.
She’s got a great window seat.
Have you noticed that her eyes are glowing again?
I just hope she gets her sandals back.
Concidring that hellish experience she has been through, she deserves a good nap.
I think it’s kinda sweet that she trusts Bloodcarver now in a natural shields down sort of way. He’s a faithful friend of hers now..
I hope Michelle gets to make those Dragon medallions.
I hope she does too. It’s Kory’s story to tell. We can’t pre-empt or godmod. But my HOPE is that she ends the war by learning the craft of medallions and making ones for not just dragons, but other “monsters” like bandersnatches. Because it seems to me that amongst the mythics the only reall difference between a “nice one” and a “monster” is whether they can get madallions to exist unnoticed in the mundane world.
It is Korys story to tell, but we all live on a little hope and harmless speculation. I have been thinking for a while that repairing a damaged medalion might be one of her first steps on the path of setting things right. And she knows someone with a damaged medalion… And after that, perhaps she can make a medalion for a dragon she trusts. But then, I thought that she would meet a “monster” in an Avalon and make one for them first up, and it hasn’t happened that way either.
Yes, and help from a possibly annoying but still friendly spirit shouldn’t be refused!
These last few pages have made me really appreciate how stumpy Bloodcarver’s back legs actually are.
“Michelle, dang, you look rough.”
“I’ve had a HELL of a day.”
She’s really been through hell.
She looks like hell.
…Hey, dese are getting too low-effort even for me. To hell with it.
(I’m here all week. Try your waitress, tip the veal.)
You’re doing fine – a decent chuckle is still worth it. Thanks! 8-)
Man this page feels cathartic. That feeling of being able to finally let your guard down after a long & grueling day is such a relief!
I’m just waiting for the time dilation to be a few weeks, or a month, up to a year.
Since I doubt that the Irish Sea is known for such balmy weather lasting into October or later, I’m guessing that time in the Mortal Realm has been either less than a week or something like a year.