I wanted it to rain during this scene, but I also needed this scene to happen on the same day as the previous chapter. A big change in the weather within the same day is absolutely possible but when it’s in a comic, it always *feels* like a significant amount of time has passed. So no rain it is.

In another news, it’s time for the annual(?) SpiderForest new member comics! SpiderForest is a Cool Kids Club of webcomics, of which HoK has been a member for a few years. Check out some of my new Spidery neighbors!

New SpiderForest Comics – Magic, Science, and Mysterious Pasts

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Nothing but the sound of the waterfall.

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Poor confused plants, but also poor everyone.

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Now you see him…

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Insert the “guy with pizza walks into flaming apartment” gif for Wei Yun here.

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w e l p

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When they first arrived here, the leaves were all dark. They are glowy and colorful now because they’re excited/ stimulated!

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“! ! ! ! ! ! !”
-some leaf in panel 3

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If you see the map from a few chapters back, you can see how there’s a dark cluttered mass in the lower right corner. Those would be (part of) the ruins.

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The More You Know ⭐︎

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