White Noise (Webcomic by Adrien Lee) SPOILERS

[Jitter]

Has he considered this possibility or was he surprised that they all left?

Is the council in its entirety the handful of people we see scheming in the hallway? How do they come to be on it? It seems to have a hereditary component (the great houses) but are they selected from a pool and of yes, by whom? Or just a system where each house has a representative and the house determines who it is? Admittedly, some of this is probably described in the worldbuilding blog which I haven’t really read much.

It’s encouraging to see persons who clearly are spirits interested too! The first crown shots were very mixed. Which reminds me that do we know anything about how much of the resident population is spirits vs. outworlders? It’s been said it’s not easy to gain entry, but we see a lot of people from different worlds in Aetheri .

It’s less encouraging to see the council more or less openly speaking about disposing of Numair! Watch out, Mari! You need a big and strong bodyguard!

[thorny]

There are a few more shown in the page where they're arguing with Numair as he sets up the broadcast; but not many. Maybe it's a really small council, only about eight people? But I do wonder what happened to the rest -- does the building have more than one exit, and they headed in another direction? did they move more slowly, and are coming behind this group?

-- and, considering that slam: I wonder if they're storming back in to try to stop Numair, by any means necessary. The crowd will hear them, at least unless/until they get the broadcast stopped; and the scribes are witnesses. Though I suppose if they're willing to stop Numair by killing or imprisoning him, they wouldn't hesitate to do the same to the scribes.

I wonder whether the Council thinks they can order Sraddi to stop broadcasting? And if so, I wonder whether they're right?

-- but the crowd would in any case know that something had happened. And if the Council tried to explain that Numair had just had a stroke or something, I gather that there are too many truth seers among the spirits for that to be believed.

And in addition to all the other things I'm wondering: I'm wondering whether Hawk is listening to this. And if not, how he's managing to avoid it.

[Jitter]

Hawk wouldn’t understand it? Numair is speaking in Aetherian. But I do hope he sees how big an impact their equipment is having!

[thorny]

I don't think it's occured to Hawk yet that Vlad knew who Mari was all along.

Maybe he thinks Vlad didn't recognize Mari? But if so, that's going to make the shock even worse when he finds out; because Vlad doesn't seem to be telling him now, either. Isn't Hawk going to be furious that Vlad hasn't at least apologized?

[Jitter]

I think he’s got enough people to be mad at already, hopefully it will take some time before he realizes this particular slight. Also it can be argued that Vlad’ silence is merely an aspect of Numair’s, Vlad is his subject and must do what he tells him to do and therefore had no choice in the matter.

Now I don’t think Vlad, or Numair, actually see it quite like this, but it could be argued!

[thorny]

It could be argued; but Hawk doesn't seem to have been very amenable to listening to arguments on this subject.

I'm hoping that he'll eventually become more so. I hope we don't have to wait till Arc 2 to find out -- though I wouldn't be surprised if so.

[Keep Looking]

I do have to say, one thing I have appreciated about this whole saga is that it shows a person who is genuinely kind and well-meaning still managing to royally screw up a relationship for reasons that were both selfish, understandable, entirely in-character and entirely his fault.

However, I do hope Hawk cools off more than he is now.

[thorny]

I do have to say, one thing I have appreciated about this whole saga is that it shows a person who is genuinely kind and well-meaning still managing to royally screw up a relationship for reasons that were both selfish, understandable, entirely in-character and entirely his fault.

However, I do hope Hawk cools off more than he is now.

Agreeing with that. Good guys can screw up too; it's important to show that. (Though they tend to do different things about it afterwards than bad guys do.)

And Hawk looks like he might be thinking it over. Hope so!

-- cricket flour, maybe? I've read about that; haven't tasted any, but would be willing to try it.

-- I just realized that most recent page looks awfully like a pause point. Wonder whether we've just run out of epilogue and will have to wait for more; though I'd rather expect at least one more page, to say that.

[Jitter]

Oh, you are terribly right about this being a possible current end! But certainly thephooka wouldn’t just drop off, so I agree there’s going to be at least some announcement.

At least Hawk seems ro be considering that he just might take it under consideration that maybe Mari didn’t only play him. At least I very much hope so!

[thorny]

Especially as Mari handed over those papers after Hawk had blown up at him and refused to speak to him. That's pretty clearly 'I will do this for you even if you'll never have anything to do with me again.'

[thorny]

Looks like we're getting at least a couple more pages. This one looks less like a pause point, I think there's bound to be at least one more.

I wonder how much of that curled-up-head-in-hands is the headache and politics, and how much is Hawk? --

[Jitter]

And how much he doesn’t mention Hawk to Helly!

[thorny]

Has he ever mentioned Hawk to Helly? I can't remember whether ne knows about Hawk or not.

[Jitter]

I don’t think ne does. Or at least the conversations between them we’ve been shown are about how he works too much and pushes himself too far. It would also seem like Helly to say something about the personal issue too in this conversation, if ne knew.

[thorny]

So, two pages later:

Yes, Helly knows about Hawk. And Helly apparently also knows at least something about Aries.

Probably considerably more than we do.