Chapter 21 p22 – Who are you calling a loon?
Aug12
Jany (phone): I can’t talk a lot right now. I’ll explain everything later. Just tell me — are there any Masters you know of that are sorta exploiting or mistreating their Beings?
Sparrow: Uh . . . Well, there’s the cult ones, obviously. The Lion and the Goat. I don’t know if they, um, experience it as mistreatment, but it’s not good for the humans.
Jany (thinking): Neither of those is on my list.
Jany: Anybody else?
Sparrow: The Rabbit caused a lot of trouble, a while back. But it’s already in custody, away from its Master . . .
Miranda (thinking): I’ll just let that one go.
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Sparrow: A duck? No, wait . . . a loon? Are black swans a real thing, or was that just a movie?
…Is the terminology in panel one reversed? Because I’m pretty sure that beings CAN’T mistreat their masters.
Not unless they want/need it at some level.
Geez, yeah, not sure how that happened. Fixed, thanks for the catch!
Entertainingly, Sparrow is something of a black swan herself.
Though that looks like some sort of arctic (or antarctic) seabird.
Yeah, looks pretty much like a cormorant to me and I see them everyday.
Good call! I didn’t even know what a cormorant was before the next page.