Annotated 6-12
Here’s another example of Erica’s rebreaking of the flow of action. The captions here are unaltered from the script, but here are the panel descriptions.
1. The nuns are getting to their feet and looking at the shattered window. Their response time is a bit slow… they thought they were impregnable here… but the weaponized rulers are beginning to come out.
2. Gravedust and Byron explode into the scene through the side entrance while everyone’s still looking at the window. Byron knocks out one nun by swinging the flat of Brayen into the back of her neck. Gravedust has his arrow drawn and takes aim.
3. Byron leaps up to escape the rulers already swinging at him (if you can squeeze it in, he’s parrying at least one). He’s aiming to land on one of the aforementioned junctions between the pews and the columns.
4. As the nuns have focused their attention on Byron and Gravedust, no one particularly notices as Syr’Nj and Bandit emerge from the floor, not far from Frigg.
Syr’Nj must believe this place really IS a house of miracles if she’s trying to signal Frigg to keep quiet during a brawl.
You use different moves when you’re fighting half a dozen people than when … you only … have … to worry … about … one.
Sleep well and dream of large women?
Why does it look like Byron has his arms behind his back in the last panel?
He and Gravedust are tied up.
I guess it’s maybe so that they just get captured rather than killed in defense of their attack, but note that neither one ever draws a weapon. Even captured, Byron’s remaining axe is still on his back.
At *best*, it looks like Byron and Gravedust fully anticipated being bested by the Sisters, trading hopefully one prisoner for two.
A Very Sophisticated and British Older Gentleman looks up from the comic book and informs us, in his driest, Received Pronunciationest voice:
“And that’s how Frigg became a tsundere.”
(Half joking.)