There are so many, many things I don't like about this work. Whenever I get sick and have to take long breaks, I always lose the thread of what I was doing before I left. The lineart and I didn't get along here. For what I did like, I decided not to go with sound effects-- I let the conversation take the foreground and let the imagination fill in the sounds better than I could fill them in with onomatopoiea. I also didn't compress this at all-- it's a huge file because losing colour fidelity just hurts me inside :P I'll be back to delivering smaller files shortly, I promise.

The way Ben's getting jerked around here was something I wanted to put into this part of the script originally, but couldn't quite find the right way to deliver. The rewrite of this fight gave me a good chance to get it in, so you can better understand what unfolds thereafter. If that doesn't make sense, don't worry. This would have been a brief little bit of introduction if I'd had my way-- I was planning to work like a fiend on Arc III and have you mid-arc before you knew it. Just didn't pan out that way.

Such is life.