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Sidhe Who Must Be Obeyed

Amelius

on Nov. 15, 2021

Now you won't be able to get rid of her, Princess Fay! Azelea is your best friend for-EVER now. Or at least while you have that massively magic bauble with you. She might seem like she's plotting to take that Orb away, but just being near it, and getting a nice social boost from being in the Royal inner circle, would be enough for her ambitions. But honestly, she's probably formulating a plan for how this can possibly be used to impress Zeno!
Also, Azelea isn't a dummy, she knows Fay isn't a "Fairy" Royal (though elves are of Faerie themselves) but she IS an elf, and she knows the Orb of Winter belongs to the Elf Kingdom.
Y'know, in the course of doing this page I realized this shelf with Azelea's "home vase" has only been seen in very small snips on about 6 pages, but aside from it being in "The Tome", I never actually showed the vase that sits on this bookshelf! It was always just off-panel or cropped out.
Of course it's always been in the same location- the hallway to the bathroom just off the living room. You might not know it's there, but I was keeping track. ^_^ There is and has always been one book in the shelf– a dictionary, because it was a running joke in the old comic that Charby would use fancy $10 words (or archaic ones!) and Tony would look them up to see what the heck he was saying. The vase with dead flowers was green in the Tome, but I thought a black shiny one would look better since I never actually established what THIS vase looks like in the web version (it's also not the same as one we saw in the kitchen twice, which was clear glass.) So there's a little bit of "dumb facts" about how far I go to remain consistent in this comic!