woof.
exhausted.
Not happy with the dude’s face in right most panel. drew it at angle on wacom (literally reaching too far away). dragged it over to main screen and saw the weird stretch. kept trying to carve the face back. ended up with big black shadow crap. bleh.
but. too late to redraw. bletch.
uh. the idea is that queen’s royal guard can’t take it any more and insist on protecting her still. they never passed the test to being true men anyway. they just obey.like robots following their programming, these guards do what they were trained to do.
that is the idea at least. Maybe I need thought bubbles to more explicitly explain all this. hmmf.

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