[823] You Could Stay Here!

[Max]

Yay! Summer camp in the woods!

Also, is that some sort of face, Jones?

[legion]

Uh oh. Jones isn't happy. What will happen???

[noblemanofreason]

Kat is not going to like this.

[Eversist]

I don't think Jones is going to go for this.

Also, Jones made an actual facial expression in panel one! Shock and awe!

[edzepp]

Oooh, he pulled the stay in the woods card. That's going to be hard to resist.

[Snes]

Well now I didn't really see that one coming.

[jabbym59]

Coyote is literally playing with fire
inviting a fire spirit into a forest,maybe not the best idea there

[gumbamasta]

Oh dear. Who would've expected that. /unsurprised monotone

In other news, Coyote, you hound! You actually managed to managed to have Jones make a face.

[fronzel]

Aw, that panel 1 Jones is just her usual frown in simple style.

It's Annie in the last panel that looks funny to me.

Also, I somehow don't think Coyote has purely altruistic motives in mind here. Does he really want Annie to be even more calm and controlled?

Annie will probably take the offer. Jones will say something about this. She will be right.

[noblemanofreason]

I am thinking back to the last treatise page, which shows Kat leading Annie back to the court from the forest. Maybe Kat is going sneak in and convince Annie to come back.

Edit: Also, anyone seen the prototype for the next treatise page? Without spoiling it for the rest of you, it suggests that Annie does get closer to the forest, but also remaining attached to Kat, possibly as the last link to the court?

[Max]

I get the feeling Jones is being backed into a corner. She can't let Annie stay (for whatever reason) but she can't lose her position as a neutral figure. I get the sense of Jones's line, "this has not been agreed by anyone" is said very hastily, as if she is stalling.

[gumbamasta]

Jan 7, 2011 8:08:58 GMT fronzel said:

Aw, that panel 1 Jones is just her usual frown in simple style.

You do have to take every little bit of joy that I have left in this world and kill it, don't you? =_=

[fronzel]

Jan 7, 2011 8:10:00 GMT gumbamasta said:

Jan 7, 2011 8:08:58 GMT fronzel said:

Aw, that panel 1 Jones is just her usual frown in simple style.

You do have to take every little bit of joy that I have left in this world and kill it, don't you? =_=

Happy to be of service.

[CGAdam]

This has all the hallmarks of an idea that is bad for you, yet so very, very hard to resist.

[shadrach]

Yeah, I think Jones's face in that first panel is of no more significance than Annie having "no" face, as it were, in the fifth panel. Simply put, the further away from the reader a figure is, the less details it's going to have, especially in the face.

[edzepp]

If I'm interpreting the new treatise ( The one that Tom streamed) correctly, I think she'll stay.

[scatter]

Coyote: "It has been agreed by the girl and I..."

This is an assumption since Annie has yet to agree BUT I feel that she will spend some time in the forest. How else will Kat lead Annie back to the court? The only question is how long will Annie be in the forest. I'd love to think that she'll spend the summer with Coyote....

[King Mir]

Well all the people who said that Annie better not go on the trip will be happy. I hope that Annie has the sense not to immediately agree to this tonight, but I also hope that Annie does end up staying at the forest for the summer. It's sure to be more interesting than Scotland.

[Eversist]

Poor Reynard. Stuck in that tiny room all summer.

[Refugee]

I cannot believe that Jones pulled rank like that. She has none, really, in Annie's mind; no one at the Court does right now. That was a tactical blunder of, ahem, tactical proportions.

I agree, though, it's not the best thing for Annie to do on the spur of the moment. She's camped out in the Forest before, of course, she's no tender flower. But it doesn't hurt to have a few amenities, and to say good by to one's friends.

Most of all, though, Coyote is not to be trusted so casually. The offer may well be worth while, but....

What am I saying?

Annie's a fire elemental. A firehead. A hothead. She'll do whatever the hell she wants, Court, Forest, Jones, Coyote, be damned to the lot of them.

[anisky]

I don't know, I kind of wanted Annie to go on that trip. If you think about it, chances are Surma wasn't able to leave the hospital, and it's a a trait of their "kind" that they can't bear to be apart-- ergo, Annie never left the hospital. Tom's said somewhere that there was a time when Annie was alive that Surma was strong enough to run around and play with her a little, but I'm pretty sure that's when Annie was really, really young. Then right after her mom died, she went straight to Gunnerkrigg Court. It seems fairly probable to me that Annie has never in her memory been anywhere besides Good Hope, Gunnerkrigg Court, and Gillitie Forest. That's kind of grim. I'd like her to see *somewhere* else, especially if she's destined to become the Court medium and remain in the Court after she's no longer a student.

I wonder if Coyote *really* wants Annie to learn to control her inner feelings (EVEN MORE THAN SHE ALREADY DOES), or if that's just an excuse to get her to stay in the forest. I'm inclined towards the latter, because really, when I think "Person suited to teach how to control your emotions," Jones is the first person to pop to my mind. Definitely not Coyote.

Why does Coyote REALLY want Annie to come to the forest?

If Gillitie Forest becomes Annie's new home, does that mean that Reynardine can go there too, since it's his owner's home?

Also, if she spends too much time in the Forest, she might not be trusted to remain neutral-- if she's been living in the Forest long-term and seems more loyal to them, no way the Court would appoint her medium. I wonder if there's some reason Coyote would want that?

[agasa]

A trickster god is pressing the situation to make his plans pass... I guess there's danger hidden somewhere in this offer. Remember that Coyote's gifts have an habit of backfiring.

Jan 7, 2011 8:19:35 GMT Eversist said:

Poor Reynard. Stuck in that tiny room all summer.

Maybe you nailed it! [wild spec] Annie will have pity of Rey, and she'll accidentally free him, with the wrong choice i words, or bring him to the forest for the summer, with untold catastrophic consequences! [/wild spec]

[dante]

Argh! Jones has on her serious face.

[edzepp]

Jan 7, 2011 8:43:38 GMT dante said:

Argh! Jones has on her serious face.

Which one? Her serious face or her other serious face?

[theweatherman]

Oh dear.

Hmm... I don't think Annie will end up staying at the woods, I imagine Jones will tell her that she's too emotional and hurt to make a big decision like that, maybe even offer to take her back if she really wants, but also what about Kat?

Argh... this is gunna be a nerve-wracking weekend T.T

[lamepudding]

tom sucks.
i'm gonna stop reading for three monthes so i don't have to WAIT

[mudmaniac]

Annie stays in the woods for summer break! Emerges in the fall a little feral! Gets transferred to Chester!
Nothing can possibly go wrong here!

[animagus]

I get the feeling Coyote doesn't intend for Annie to learn to suppress her anger, but to harness it.

[blulink]

Meh this seems like a tease. Annie still (perhaps now more than ever) wants to see her Father. She shall return to the Court at the end. She will remember her friend and her desire for normalcy. Coyote is saying what he says to push her down the path she should take. The Coyote of myth is helpful even is he is an a**.

[Geekette]

Visual-wise, one thing I really like is the trees. They follow the flow of Coyote's body in all of the panel's Coyote's in, except around Jones in the first panel. Then they more match her.

Content wise; my main thought is that hanging out with a godlike being for several months doesn't seem like a good idea. I think Coyote could probably start to wear on anyone if they're in any sort of extended contact. And upsetting someone, accidentally or not, with that sort of power would not be a good idea.
Add into the fact that the legends we've been told about Coyote suggest that he's not overly concerned with what results when he gets things wrong (he doesn't seem too worried about how messy the stars are, does he?), and I have some serious reservations about the logistics of this offer.

Then of course we have the issue that this is a trickster, with his own agenda, making the offer...
Doesn't sound like a choice to be made spur of the moment.