December 6th, 2019
6 Dec 2019 · page 949 of 1306
I'm glad we're all in agreement.
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Eliza Swift, Gren, Heinrich Wolfe, Sidney Malik
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Oh, Sid wants to use Gren for searching for Mal, not the tracking spell! Well, then they have to look for Ben first; the point is "how".
To hire Verity for that? :)
This must happen :D
Hire? Just let her know that someone may have kidnapped and mean harm to her favourite cousin and step well back.
(🙂)
Though yes, rule of funny and all that. :)
How many hunters do we know before it comes back round to Harry to return and sort this whole mess out?
Also it seems Mal left his "witch" scarf behind. 😭
Missed’em by a hair!
Let's hope Gren doesn't lead them to the person who knitted the scarf.
[Two months later] "I hate to ask again, but are you absolutely sure Mal is in these mountains?!"
If she did, they'd be able to find Harry, humorously enough.
I thought the scarf was knitted by Mountain Witch, over in the Himalayas?
Correct/probable. Presuming she normally has access to Anchorspace, I figure she has some way to contact Island Witch, since they seem to have collaborated on Mal's witchwarming present. (Even if it's just knocking on IslandWitch's door and waiting.)
The colors don't quite match, but I don't know if she's supposed to be knitting Mal's scarf and Kate just changed her mind about the exact shade of blue or if it's NOT Mal's scarf and we're just reading too much into things.
[https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/may-23rd-2014 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/may-23rd-2014")
[https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-28th-2016 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-28th-2016")
Or if she just does a lot of knitting and happened to be knitting something else in a different shade of blue at that point in time.
That's what I meant about the possibility of it being not-Mal's scarf.
That said, the fact that we have established that the Mountain Witch knits (I think the fan consensus is that the knitting woman is the Witch) makes her the likely candidate for "who knitted the scarf". (Hence pingo1387's comment above.)
Great art to show Gren's body language.
Sorry, Sid, but I don't see much stability in your future.
Methinks this moment of stability's about to go unstable fast in 3... 2... 1...
See, this is why Mal never thanks anyone if he can help it. You miss important plot points. :-P
Nor Gren, neither Ben will be found,
But cleanliness and order all around :)
(Oh! I did a poem!)
"You want to know what the most important aspect of comedy is? Go on, ask me."
"What's the most important aspect of com-"
"TIMING!"
(tip of the hat to Buddy Hackett)
I wonder if Ben heard their voices coming from around the corner while he was getting into the carriage.
I think Eliza has defected. Or at the very least, she is enjoying herself WAY too much.
She's even doing Jazz Hands ;)
She's probably pretending to be all fluttery and french and going 'oui, no,zut merlot!' while being gleeful that the bad guys are unwittingly kidnapping a police detective.
OK, so the two hench(gentle?)men are sitting up front so, unless there is another guard inside that carraige Ben, Eliza and Gren are (presumably locked) inside and left to their own devices.
We didn't see them being searched.
What is Eliza equipped with? What can Ben summon? How good a police dog is Gren? How strong is the glass in that window and did they spot Sid and Wolfe through it?
We may expect surprises when they open that door.
So close, so close
I'm surprised they got Gren in there...
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Well then.
Oh these guys. They sure pick their moment.And that has gotta be the quietest kidnapping ever, if even Gren is just being a silent-stubborn-angry type dog.
Ben's polite I bet he left a note before leaving.
"Gone to get kidnapped, be back as soon as possible."
THEY SNATCHED HIM ????????????
"We really need to stop not meeting like this"
S T A B I L I T Y. Ha!
I mean, sure. Back in the day it wasn't really that if you saw a gun in public, you'd write a letter to your local officer to take a look at the matter, but still.
That's some really relaxed gun-pointing in clear public at daylight hour none the less. XD
...I don't think the British have ever been very happy about guns in their cities...
We're all in agreement... except those two thugs. Well, and Gren. Well, maybe not Eliza either. Hmm... ...wait, what? squints
gonna skip tomorrow’s update in a desperate attempt to regain equilibrium, apologies for the delay. can feel myself spiralling off into unhealthy working habits again and i refuse to relapse! gonna be strong!
all the best to you as you wrestle your equilibrium. those are tricky buggers.
Boo, unhealthy habits! :summons spirit of Diligence to boost ability to properly do self-care:
When you start to feel like a Veteran of the Psychic Wars, that's nature's way of telling you to take a break.
Shit, has that been declassified already?
Semper Praedixi
The cat’s been out of the bag since at least 1981.
It was the sound track for my finals.
[https://youtu.be/jGKNaIXtBZQ](https://youtu.be/jGKNaIXtBZQ "https://youtu.be/jGKNaIXtBZQ")
You simply need a little stability at the moment, yes?
Gren obviously knows that, whatever else, you do everything you can to avoid being taken to a secondary crime scene.
Ant that coach looks suspiciously like eithe a SCS or the route to one.
Maybe, but the 'bring whatever you need' sounded more like they had something in mind that required Harry's expertise. I mean they're probably planning on killing 'him' after that, and possibly sooner when they realize they haven't actually got Harry, and what they're doing will presumably turn out to be crime of some kind...