Heee kinda needs a pick-me-up. He’s also doing the ‘that’s really obvious in retrospect’ thing where he kicks himself for NOT thinking it through to that point, but mostly he’s just really creeped out. Magic is one thing - that’s got classifications and people poking at it to advance the uses of it etc - kinda magi-tech, only not really ‘tech’ so much as applying the scientific method to magic, because energy is energy, you’re just tapping it in different ways. Not that this world has developed quite far enough to have put those thoughts into exactly those terms, but you get the idea.
Wow that comment got away from me.
But yeah, souls/ghosts are...acknowledged, but generally you don’t mess with those, and death and such isn’t really lumped in under ‘magic, poke until it explodes then take notes’
Looking at the page overall, I think I maybe could have left the text out of that fourth panel. Hmm. It’s not horrible, but silent might have made a better trio of reaction-shots. Oh well.
Oooooh, Sebastian. D: You were hit with quite the realisation, huh.
Nnnng, that brickwork! 😀 😀
‘They have to be having a better time than me, right?’
..You HAD to say that, didn’t you, Sebastian. D: Oooh boy, this is going to be fun…
Yuuup. Suddenly the silence in the castle is like, a dozen times creepier.
XD Thank you!
*snerk* Yyeeeaah that.
Oh, poor Sebastian, I hadn’t figured that out either. Good twist Matix!
Thank you! Yeah, Sebastian just didn’t take the knowledge that far. Nobody’s going to be able to think of ~everything~, y’know?
Love the progression of this page, especially the sense of space vs. smallness in the second panel.
You had to say it, didn’t you, Bastian? Asking for trouble!
Thank you! *nod* Sebastian suddenly feels rather off-balance and very exposed.
Muahaha! XD
OH! THAT”S AS BAD AS SAYING, “WHAT COULD GO WRONG?” SEBASTIEN!!