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[catbirds]

Yes! Thank you wave for the compilation of some of the crew's best emotions

[thegreyarea]

From the last panel, it seems that Surma, while being very sensitive to piercing sounds, is not that bad at hearing much deeper sounds as well...

Yes it seems, as long as those sounds are loud enough. So now we have many variables:
What will happen in the Onni-Kade fight? Will it get interrupted or continue?
What Mama Bear will do next: Mourn her loss or climb back the hill to attack the crew?
If the bears attack and Onni is trapped in a trance while fighting the Kade, what the rest will do? Start shooting? Try to carry his body while fleeing the scene?
How fast will Surma arrive? And when it arrives what it will do? Just kill anything that moves? We still know almost nothing about it.
And while the Kade is fighting Onni can it use its powers against the others, particularly Lalli and Reynir? (and there's still the possibility that little moment with one open eye was enough to doom Onni...)

So I'm glad we will have our chapter break filler to distract us, because it will be a high cliff to be hanging on...

[Tindveden]

Welp, I have added a new image to the Reaction Image Hoard.  I think we all feel this one this week.

I swear - that one almost made me levitate off my bed at one hour past midnight 

PS: Great presentation!

[Jitter]

Onni is out of the dreamworld alread, see here: http://sssscomic.com/comic2.php?page=410

What happened with the Kade, we don't know. Presumably it slipped away.

[Maple]

I definitely remember an earlier info page talking about kades and saying that it's possible for a mage to be infected by a kade and saved if the spell is broken right away. So I went googling and I found the page for it: http://www.sssscomic.com/comic2.php?page=151

The law of 'Conservation of Detail' tells me that's what's going to happen at some point. Maybe that's going to be Reynir's part? Either Onni or Lalli is going to look into the eyes of the kade, and then Reynir will be the mage that breaks them from the kade's spell.

[Kitty]

and i wonder

why is Kade using three bears as protection, when it could just as easily be vibing around Surma.
conclusion: Surma can and would harm Kade.

[thegreyarea]

Onni is out of the dreamworld alread, see here: http://sssscomic.com/comic2.php?page=410

What happened with the Kade, we don't know. Presumably it slipped away.

Thanks! I thought it was Lalli behind Sigrun. My eyes were draw to the poor bears.

So Lalli broke Onni's spell with his "gentle touch" . Now, if the Kade is gone they "just" have to deal with the remaining bears and Surma... Gone is my mental image of the group carrying a dormant Onni through the woods...

...Maybe that's going to be Reynir's part? Either Onni or Lalli is going to look into the eyes of the kade, and then Reynir will be the mage that breaks them from the kade's spell.

Many, myself included, see that as a likely scenario.

why is Kade using three bears as protection, when it could just as easily be vibing around Surma.
conclusion: Surma can and would harm Kade.

Could be. But we don't know if the Kade and Surma crossed paths before. The Kade, being ethereal and therefore silent, may be unaware of Surma.

[Róisín]

Nah, don’t think that something like the kade would be ignorant of anything close to it, but we shall see.

[Kitty]

gotta say, i don't look forward to seeing Surma as a whole haha
even just hands are nightmare fodder

[thorny]

I know it's unlikely -- she was immune, so even if she didn't get taken into the kade it seems unlikely she could trollify -- but I've still got the idea stuck in my head that Surma might be Grandma, having managed to fight the kade off enough not to get subsumed but not enough to have remained fully herself. In which case, I'd think the kade would most certainly want to stay well away from her.

I think there's just something about those hands that strikes me as an exaggeration of a thin old woman's hands.

[JoB]

I think there's just something about those hands that strikes me as an exaggeration of a thin old woman's hands.

"The original trait of the Finnish version of 'Red Riding Hood' is the grandmother getting eaten and still not needing anyone on the outside to cut the wolf open."

[thorny]

"The original trait of the Finnish version of 'Red Riding Hood' is the grandmother getting eaten and still not needing anyone on the outside to cut the wolf open."

Hah! I'd like to read that version -- tried finding it by googling, but failed. Have you got a good link (in English)?

[wavewright62]

Hmmm, nice traditional horror... 'oh Grandma what big... ' *snikt*

[Tindveden]

Hah! I'd like to read that version -- tried finding it by googling, but failed. Have you got a good link (in English)?

I would love to read that too, but JoB needs to write it first, I believe.

In the meantime there's always some interesting analyses, e.g.

https://owlcation.com/humanities/Angela-Carters-The-Company-of-Wolves-as-Folktale-Variation

[JoB]

Hah! I'd like to read that version -- tried finding it by googling, but failed. Have you got a good link (in English)?

I would love to read that too, but JoB needs to write it first, I believe.

... you oughta know better than to tempt me ...