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number11train β€” Not This Forest, Not These Ghosts

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Published: 2015-08-29 06:53:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 1334; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 6
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Description Oh boy I'm kinda late getting this done and I'm about to get on a plane BUT here is Cassair's trip back to Iadlain from Song-Lu after the Mutiny day attacks!

Basically, in an odd twist of fate, he runs into Iollan at the Song-Lu train station while heading back. He doesn't meet Iollan immediately; after simply noticing him in the crowd, Cassair waits until the train is boarded and out of the station before searching through the carriages for him. Once he finds him, he checks that this really is Iollan - because wasn't he meant to be in Iadlain? Why is he here? - and then, after that is confirmed, realises that something is very wrong.

Cass knows about Iollan's curse - not everything, but enough - and the symptoms of it this time are far too much. Most notable for Cass are the nightmares - usually he can and does overwrite them, but during this five-day journey back to Iadlain, he finds that his own dream illusions are not taking hold. Again and again, the curse shreds them apart.

So he shreds the nightmares too, as many times as he needs to, as many times as he can, until they can reach the forest of ghosts they're meant to be in.


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Iollan Β© dualscepters (and here is Iollan's side of the trip , which has more detail!)
Cassair Β© myself

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Comments: 17

monmoshi [2018-03-27 23:23:02 +0000 UTC]

so fantastic

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number11train In reply to monmoshi [2018-05-17 15:03:53 +0000 UTC]

aaa super late reply but! Hehehe thank you!! <3

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monmoshi In reply to number11train [2018-08-07 20:34:17 +0000 UTC]

you're very welcome^^

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Taivasora [2015-08-31 02:46:32 +0000 UTC]

As much as I'll keep saying that your paneling and flow is marvelous (such as Cassair from a nightmarish teal returns to the real world through a border of blood hhh), at this point I think I'll just drop my words into a wheeze. Your comics are like glittering goodness of feels, wonderful characters, and lovely drawn hands omg I want all of Cassair's flowy cloaks Hang in there Iollan ;_; wh e e z e s

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number11train In reply to Taivasora [2015-08-31 17:53:05 +0000 UTC]

//breathes oxygen into your lungs, ahhh thank you so much, your words are always so kind and heart-warming no matter how many times! (οΎ‰β–½`) I fiddled with the panelling in the nightmare scenes for quite a while haha so I'm really glad they manage to flow! //wraps you up in endless lengths of cloak and pats you, Iollan will be ok! IΒ  h o p e //stares at dual

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kishi-san [2015-08-31 01:46:15 +0000 UTC]

how does one do loose and free panelling like y o u Β  t E A CΒ Β  HΒ Β Β Β Β  M Β Β  E

just love how everything in the dream kinda just bleeds into each other O:
and the blood is a really cool transition back to coloured reality just

how does one comic even

WEEPS OVER THESE TWO IN THE MEANTIME

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number11train In reply to kishi-san [2015-08-31 17:43:40 +0000 UTC]

wheezes kishi pls I HAVE NOTHING TO TEACH ONLY MY HUMBLE SHOUJO PANELLING ROOTS WHICH INVOLVE //VAGUE AND DIAGONAL LINES EVERYWHERE, HELP--

Hnnn thank you so much though, I'm really glad you like it! I was actually stuck on how to panel the dream bits for a while haha so I'm happy this sort of mash manages that effect hehehehjgsfhgj

PATS YOU A LOT THEY WILL BE OK PROBABLY-- //squints at dual

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kishi-san In reply to number11train [2015-09-02 14:53:14 +0000 UTC]

WELL I LEARNED SOMETHING THANK YOU SENSEI

ahh it's a really good look!

SQUINTS AT DUAL TOO

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Tsukiko75014 [2015-08-29 19:17:47 +0000 UTC]

Heh, everytime I see Cass - regardless of the context - the song Don't Mess With Me begins to play in my head.

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number11train In reply to Tsukiko75014 [2015-08-31 17:38:39 +0000 UTC]

Ahahaha! That sounds like an apt lyric indeed 8)

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Nalytia [2015-08-29 10:50:11 +0000 UTC]

//WHEEZES FOR CASS AND IOLLAN THESE TWO HURT MY HEART

Why is everything you make/do always so impressive I caaaaan't //rolls all over the flow of this piece

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number11train In reply to Nalytia [2015-08-29 16:50:44 +0000 UTC]

//PAPS YOUR HEART VERY GENTLY---

//and rolls you up into a blanket burrito, you are too kind ahhh thank youuu! I'm just happy you like my comicking attempts ahahajfkfn α••( ᐛ )α•—

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Nalytia In reply to number11train [2015-08-29 17:31:17 +0000 UTC]

//Takes both of these children and puts them in a safe-house where nothing can burden them ever ever a g a in

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Undercurrent-32 [2015-08-29 08:36:42 +0000 UTC]

Woah I love it!

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number11train In reply to Undercurrent-32 [2015-08-29 16:53:13 +0000 UTC]

Ahhh thank you! Β 

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dualscepters [2015-08-29 07:45:04 +0000 UTC]

YELLS VERY QUIETLYΒ 

Again your transitions/pacing/flow are absolutely wonderful! I love how you portrayed Badb as well, especially seeing as you only had quick and messy sketches to work off of----, she is properly menacing //wheezes at this horrible and horrifying eldritch griffin
You even included Quin's rapier and I just--Β  And Cass' expression when Badb throws him out of the nightmare --Β And look at Cass in his Songluan shirt-- Iollan wrapped in his tattered cloak-- //just gathers everything

Sweet little children, keep fighting, keep doing your best, it will all be okay in time---

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number11train In reply to dualscepters [2015-08-29 17:06:42 +0000 UTC]

HOLDS YOU

Ahhh thank you so much! I'm so glad the way I drew Badb was okay //wheezes too, as along as she has that horrific mouth there then she's recognisable, right-- also dream, also shape-shifting-- //smacked

I'm really happy you noticed all those little details too hehehee your inventory meme came very much in handy, A+ even though I felt like a bad person including it, forgive me Iollan. I figured Cass would need new clothes after all the Mutiny shenanigans haha thank you Tor'ang and yesss, of course he gets the cloak ; 7 ; //gathers you and them too, Cass will always just make attempts-- it better be okay in time, there is only so much he can do---

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