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Hurg, so long to do this one. But I say that every time, haha. This time it does come with an ironic note though: because this is the last page of this section of the story, I'm taking a break from the comic for a week or two. I think one of the reasons I took so long with this one, aside from just the rest of life being really stressful and busy, is that I've been feeling a strong urge to work on other things for a while now. I'm excited with the comic and especially some upcomig scenes, but I have felt a little trapped with it for a while and I think with some other drawing done I'll get more energized to work on this again.

This page wasn't in the original plan script and I decided to add it just after finishing the previous page, but it addresses a couple things I felt the script was lacking in: some insight into Adrienne's motivations, and some time spent focusing on how Serena's feelings cause her some degree of suffering and aren't just a fun fantasy. But it does both of these things so incompletely and poorly that I wonder if I would have been better off leaving it out.

But this section of the story has already gone on too long, and I don't wish to continue this scene, nor do I have any compelling ideas for how to do so in an interesting way. So I'll simply take it as a lesson to either address issues fully or not at all, rather than try to cram a small amount of it into one page. This comic is in many ways a finished product, but in many ways just a rough draft too. I'm learning a lot about what I'd want to do if I redid it (this actually isn't really an "if" in my mind, at this point). Both of the issues I wanted to deal with in this page could have easily been weaved into earlier scenes and not dealt with separately.

I do like the mid-page transition though, and Vladimir's reaction to Adrienne's reasons amuse me. I can hear him thinking: "What does being happy have to do with anything!?"