[616]hmm, fancy shooting.

So. Now we know Janet's last name. And hence, the Headmaster too.

This of course does not necessarily debunk the possibility that she's descended from Steadman the Archer. In Wednesday's discussion thread we were saying that perhaps her last name was Steadman. However, Steadman could have been his given name and not his surname.

In other news, there's an emergency back at the Court. In case you hadn't heard. Nice Friday cliffhanger, yes? Poor Marcia. And we -still- haven't gotten to see her eyes normal, to know whether or not she's an ex-fairy. Though the greenish hair is hard to ignore. But maybe she just likes it that way. Gotta say though, the gardener marrying a wood nymph would certainly make sense.

Who would care to speculate about what's happening back at the Court?

And here I was, just today, thinking about whether or not we'd already gotten to the point in the story where Tom thought people were going to have such a problem with it. Maybe we're about to find out?

That would be my guess as well.

In panel 5 something clearly very interesting is said. And given Marcia's posture, it doesn't look like she knows what.

Ben

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Hmm.. now Reynardine and Eglamore will be out of service area when Jack come's a-callin'

if we see a wild goose, and the cows sing a song i would start to get worried about how many songs on that track have been used. since 'drowned lovers' would then be like an ominous prediction...

Most of it, but not all. The flashbacks in Chapter Eleven were from Zimmy and Gamma's viewpoint, and the flashbacks in Chapter Eighteen were from Kat's viewpoint (as was, apparently, most of the present-day portion of the chapter). Annie was entirely absent from Chapter Twenty-two. And a lot of the Bonus Pages were also told from other people's point of view.



It's also possible that the emergency back at the Court isn't that important to the story, but is just a plot device to get Eglamore and Bob out of the way because their presence would interfere in this chapter's story (i.e., that whatever trouble arises to form the main plot would have been solved in a few seconds had they been there). Kind of like the Necromancer business in "The Hobbit" that required Gandalf to leave Bilbo and the dwarves just as the most dangerous part of their journey was about to begin, for example.

Finally, as a wild guess - maybe the real point is to simply provide some comedy over Marcia's panic at having to look after things on her own, and nothing big will happen either at the Court (on-stage, that is) or in the camp; instead, the rest of the chapter will be composed of more vignettes about humorous camping incidents (like Paz being scared by the robot cows earlier), the Jack incident was just there to link the chapter more closely with the rest of the story and has no further development for the remainder of the Residential, there is no big plot for this chapter - and that's the problem that Tom predicted we'd have with it.

Man... Janet and William are so damn cute together. I wonder if they're still managing to fool everyone, or if the other people are just pretending to not know the two of them are an item.

That depends on whose side the cows are on.

Maybe, as speculated before, Rey is up to something now that Annie has no way of checking in on him. Of course, if that were the case, I would expect Eggers to bring Annie along.

I guess the fact that Bob is needed suggests it's a botanical emergency.

As for Marcia, she doesn't have pointy ears, so I think she's human.

And yet, the Necromancer was an avatar of Sauron. So, related after all. I'm pretty sure things are going to be interestingly interconnected here. I suppose "we'll see" is the only proper response, but I see no reason not to guess that the emergency does indeed deal with the seeds. Keep up the speculation!

Ben

I think it would be an interesting story device, for something relatively serious were to happen "off-stage", and Eglamore and company take care of it, and Annie (and thus, ourselves) doesn't even find out what it was for several chapters, until someone says "remember that time when you were away on Residential?"

With the Court being as huge as it is, it's realistic to think that things are happening around the Court that -don't- involve the main characters. I would be satisfied with the presentation of the idea that Annie can't and doesn't solve -every- problem that arises in such a large place.

Janet is Welsh! Incredible. I thought she was Irish or Scottish.
Hah, look at the two of them in panel 4, pretending like they weren't holding hands. Now -that's- what I call an open secret.
Who agrees with me that the kids are going to run rings around Marcia?

There's also a possibility that if she is related it's not straight down the male line. There was probably a daughter who married a Llanwellyn somewhere along the line.

William Llanwellyn is nicely euphonic though -- those repeated double "l"s and the "w"s.

He'll be totally taking her name.