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[midwestmutt]

Mikkel is no good at precise targeting but a scattergun is ideal for close-in action so he can now pull his weight on defense.

[Grade E cat]

Since Fairy Tail is on the list of manga that eventually went "too much fighting, not enough plot advancement" on me, I'm already mentally nicknaming that character "Zeref", even though I've been paying enough attention to know it's "It".

[Ragnarok]

The latest page pleases my inner shipper. That is all.

[Sc0ut]

The latest page pleases my inner shipper. That is all.

My inner shipper is terrified. The look on Lalli's face doesn't read "pleasant surprise" to me  :'D

[Windfighter]

Well it doesn't quite read "unpleasant surprise" either  :'D

[thorny]

The fish are in the air, the bird is in the water --

I guess we're in the dreamworld, all right!

But I wonder whether that means something, in a mage's dreamworld. Lalli looks kind of taken aback.

[Suominoita]

Means something... about your world being upside down I suppose. Lalli must be feeling like a fish out of water -- no one speaks his language, he can't go outside etc. Maybe the flying wish are the spirits of REAL fish that the ship's crew has caught, killed and cooked? Don't know about the bird though... it doesn't look like Tuuri...

[wavewright62]

Means something... about your world being upside down I suppose. Lalli must be feeling like a fish out of water -- no one speaks his language, he can't go outside etc. Maybe the flying wish are the spirits of REAL fish that the ship's crew has caught, killed and cooked? Don't know about the bird though... it doesn't look like Tuuri...

Did anyone else expect the bird to cough up a talisman when Lalli disengaged it from the hook?
Okay, just me.

[Róisín]

Things like the natural order being reversed, or showing unnatural divisions (as in the classic 'green and burning tree' image, can have significance in a shamanic context, or may be indicators of the end of something. But in this context it may simply be the disruption of Emil being there, or just dream weirdness.

[Grade E cat]

In case nobody else noticed, Tuuri had a couple stealth cameos in the flash-backs. We see the corner of the bed in which she was sleeping in the train from Chapter 3 and the snoring sound coming from the side when Emil remembers sleeping in the tank has to be hers.

[Mebediel]

Lalli must be feeling like a fish out of water

I see what you did there :>

In case nobody else noticed, Tuuri had a couple stealth cameos in the flash-backs. We see the corner of the bed in which she was sleeping in the train from Chapter 3 and the snoring sound coming from the side when Emil remembers sleeping in the tank has to be hers.

I hope that, when Minna talked about Tuuri being seen again some time later in the comics, she wasn’t just talking about small cameos like that. Though I do appreciate the cameos.

[yung_chrysanthemum]

i'm calling it now -- the crew is on the same cargo ship that reynir joined up with in chapter 6. his visitor... is olafur the dishwasher guy

[thorny]

I think it's probably his brother, who seems to be part of the crew and was shown waving to him when they first got on the ship. I wonder why it took so long for him to come visit? though maybe it's not his first visit, just the first one that we're seeing.

[wavewright62]

I like your thinking yung_, and would love to see Ólafur make another appearance, but alas this is not that boat.  Túnfiskurinn, Ása Hardardóttir's boat, was where Reynir was serving.  Here's a nice picture of that (much smaller) boat.

And I'm pretty much in agreement with thorny and others who think it's Bjarni, finally allowed down to see his baby bro. 

What gets me is Reynir's complete despondency - isn't shown reading, isn't shown chatting with any of the boat's staff (you'd'a thunk he'd be enjoying the chance to speak Icelandic again?), isn't shown doing anything.  I guess the processing of all that's happened to him is getting to him, now that he's 'safe'?

[Róisín]

And Reynir, too, probably misses Tuuri, who seemed to be the one of the crew to whom he was closest. He likely expects that the consequences of his impulsive act are closing in, that he will come home to major trouble if he is allowed to go home at all, and that his life will never be the same.