Chapter 21 | Page 3
on November 10, 2022
at 12:00 am
Wasting no time.
Thistil Mistil Kistil
by Sarah Schanze
Velkommen!
Thistil Mistil Kistil is a comic about vikings, Norse gods, and their adventures together (or against each other). Updates are on Tyr’s Day and Thor’s Day.
No worries, Saoirse. Coal’s already hit the expiration date on the whole “’til death do us part” thing.
Here, take my upvote.
And mine.
This is good, darnit.
…and have another upvote.
…all the upvotes…
This is where things get difficult. I have a strange feeling that Coal getting colour in his eyes sometimes means there’s times were he’s only mostly dead,which means slightly alive. It’d be a bizarre thing if he did somehow manage to have a child with Saoirse which means he gets descendants he checks in on every century or so.
:3c
Saoirse, ex-slave and proposed sacrificial victim, is DEFINITELY nobody’s fool. She has had a harder life than any of her companions can imagine (still a virgin? We dont know). She knows that opportunity is fleeting, so she will grasp it before it can slip away — and she is bright enough to use any opportunity to her advantage. Example: turning the potential disaster of her homecoming into a triumph. Her tragedy will be that she has no conceivable way of knowing Coal’s, well, zombie status. We tend to get lulled by the abstract elegance of the artwork; it overlays some fairly brutal stuff.
Aw, thanks! Some darker aspects of Saoirse’s life have been alluded to but not spoken of directly. No doubt it’s taken its toll on her, but it’s been really fun writing/drawing her as more confident and assured in this chapter.
And we go from “awkward silence” straight to “awkward conversation”…
I look forward to seeing how Coal wriggles his way out of telling her the truth.
Like a worm on a hook.