Artist's Notes
 
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.

       
From the Ophanim
"I do believe that the wages of sin ARE death. But by the time they take the taxes out, it's more of a tired feeling, really."
       
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