Annotated 29-16
We knew at this point what fate awaited Rachel. We were even pretty sure this’d be the last in-depth talk she and Frigg would have about either of their lives. So we did our best to behave like it wasn’t, to resist the temptation to telegraph that fate too early. I think we succeeded here; later on, not so much.
It’s not entirely clear that Rachel is actually misreading the situation. She may have just decided to “misread” it, since that clearly gets under Frigg’s skin.
If I were to pick a member of the Peacemakers to act as scout or lookout, it’d probably be Bandit, and if not her, then still not the women who never use any sort of attack that depends on distance vision, unlike Byron or Syr’Nj. But let’s say all three of the other charter members are doing too much leadership role-juggling to be stuck on the tower long enough for this job.
Frigg has taught Rachel well.
So who is it exactly shouting up from the ground in the final panel? Someone who saw Rana, I have to assume?
Possibly Ardaic, or someone else, after Fr’Nj’s warning. Which then helped bring the the troops “in the horizon” to Frigg’s attention. Rana is still unnoticed way high above cloud level, I believe.
In retrospect I really wasn’t praying proper attention when I made the original comment.
I think Rachael’s different, too. The old Rachael didn’t joke very much, and certainly wouldn’t have made a joke about this.
I’m not a student of architecture by any means. But it seems odd that the builders seem to be building the tower from the top down first. Wouldn’t that make it top heavy and more prone to fall over in the slightest breeze?
I think they wanted the functional bit (signal fire) as quickly as possible, and were going to backfill the more long term concerns (stability)
Looks like a beacon fire to me — the stone at the top is needed to keep it from burning the tower down when lit, but the rest of the tower may be essentially complete already.