Summer Holiday 7 - edges scuffed and worn

[Mezzaphor]

"Remember to look at the photos! Remember!"

Darn, I was hoping that they'd be visiting Anja's relatives.

[neal]

I love Kat. Of course she would suggest e-mail. But really who sends snail mail nowadays anyway? other than me?

[Monkey Roids]

Sometimes you just have to love proper letters ;D

Email just doesn't cut it in terms of... coolness

[todd]

I was hoping that we'd get a letter from Kat about her time in Italy, and we did. Wonderful!

Too bad we didn't get to see Annie's reply to Kat's first letter, though we can at least guess at the contents. I especially liked Annie's advice for helping out the ghost - so true to her and to the atmosphere of the webcomic. (It's also just like Annie to be more comfortable with sending regular mail than e-mail, even after Kat teaches her how to do it.)

I'd still like to see how Annie was spending the summer months at Gunnerkrigg - at least we've still got three days left of this period. Even if nothing dramatic happens, it'd still be a great way for us to find out more about what she likes to do when she's not attending classes, doing homework, or having adventures.

I also liked the part about Kat's uncertainty over how to spell "Ysengrin" (and the alternate spelling beginning with an "i" really is the more common spelling for his legendary original).

[Yin]

You can't doodle all over email Those margin notes and doodles make it really great.

[todd]

I especially liked Kat including drawings of the Scottish and Italian flags at the top of her letters.

[Aspen d'Grey]

Um. Face torn off. 'nuff said.

[todd]

One touch that I also find interesting: the remark that Reynardine's more "pleasant" in his full-wolf form. In fact, he does seem grander and less petty in that shape than in his plush form. Still capable of making sarcastic remarks to Ysengrin, for example, but I don't think that this version of him would be cracking jokes about wanting to see Annie and Kat kissing.

[Mezzaphor]

Nit-pick: the remark was that he's more pleasant when no one else is around. But seeing as he switched to full-wolf form as his default at just about the same time that the school emptied out, those could be one and the same. The meeting with Ysengrin and Coyote was the only time so far that Rey appeared in wolf-form for anyone besides Annie.

But I do like this development of Rey's character. And I hope it's genuine, not just some complicated ruse to earn Annie's trust.

[todd]

Thanks for the correction, Mezzaphor. I must have missed that part.

I'd also like to think that Reynardine's undergoing a genuine change for the better.

[Aspen d'Grey]

todd said:

Thanks for the correction, Mezzaphor. I must have missed that part.

I'd also like to think that Reynardine's undergoing a genuine change for the better.

operative phrase being 'like to think', eh? I liek the idea too... I just don't believe it. Not yet.