Chapter Nineteen Page 25
Rosen: So we must first be re-animating the Dog, then perfecting the sigil of free will. Mr. Cohen would not wish for any hostile party to get ideas about how to make this job more difficult.
Lúthien: [He’s sure we can re-animate the Dog.]
Rosen: [Yes. You’ve seen how calm he is about it.]
Lúthien: [Very calm! Not even putting pressure on us to –]
Rosen: [Shush. The humans are talking.]
[*Translated from Hebrew.]
Sparrow: I promise, I’ll do everything I can to keep the Dog safe. Hey, by the way — there’s a guy out in the waiting room who’s tried to be dangerous to all Beings. Any idea what Arthur Bennett is doing here?
Rosen: All I know is that I will not be speaking with that . . . man.
Lúthien: Miranda promised we wouldn’t even have to see him!
Sparrow: Good.
Miranda: I’d like to check out the current state of Patrick’s Contract. To see what else Dad might have messed with along the way to wiping out his name. But considering how stressed Patrick is from just remembering that day, you should take some time to calm him down. I’m not gonna open him up until you say it’s okay.
Bianca: . . . Tell me something first. Was there a point when you were planning to forcibly wipe my name off of his Contract?
Miranda: W-what? No!
I already had Poe at this point. One human can’t be the Master of two Beings. And it’s not like there’s anyone else I had in mind to hand him over to!
So obviously whatever plans I may have had were better-thought-out than that.
Yeah, OBVIOUSLY… or something.
Perfect responses are perfect. :D
Sparrow: We all hate Bennett so we can be friends.
Bianca: I have to ask because you used magic to lock Patrick into stasis.
Miranda: Give me credit for my competency that I did not get from my father.
Seeing Patrick in a fuzzy dog form but with those same colors has me curious- can beings change their base colors? Like, for example, could Patrick make himself into a gray dog or could Reseda make herself into a black cat – or is their shapeshifting limited to changing the breed of whatever kind of being they are?
From what I’ve seen, Beings ALWAYS keep at least one of their base colors. Patrick can become an all-brown dog, for example, and Kara Lynn can become an all-green lizard. However, we’ve only seen Ann’s Being as a variously-sized Tiger.
Can they change their basecolors…? This is quite an interesting question.
Not quite true — we’ve also seen Ann’s Being as an all-black leopard. Meanwhile, the Bear has gone through some dramatic color variations.
The “base colors” are partly an in-universe constant, partly an art-style thing. When Cybele impersonates Cohen, I still draw her with pink eyes because it’s a visual cue for the reader, not because it’s an in-universe imperfection that someone like Miranda might catch. Same thing with the Beings and humans having different fonts for their speech bubbles — it doesn’t correspond to any in-universe difference in language/accent/etc that the characters could pick up on.
Oh yeeeeeah, that’s right – because Ann’s Being is mostly the large-cat-that-is-not-a-Lion.
Mostly art style. Got it! Thanks for doing the colors, by the way, they make great visual cues.
In left panels 2 and 3, I think Sparrow and Rosen are both (badly) trying to keep the same secret from each other (that the Dog is alive).
A thought, as I can’t think where in the archive to look…but wasn’t it established at some point that Sparrow can at least in part understand Hebrew?