Author's Notes
This page has been the most physically exhausting page to draw in months. Not because of the background detail... nor the return to the soft-shading technique... nor the fact that I forgot how to draw Aleco... but because every time I looked at the first panel I ended up yawning nonstop. I can't stop yawning. I can't. Help. Now tarienn's yawning. And I'm yawning. Oh no. It's an unending cycle. Help. Send help.
