“Is there any way that doesn’t end in destroying the eggs?” Chel asked. ”How’s Epsy going to take it if you do that?” Images of an enraged Epsy roared through Chel’s thoughts, taking the place of cute, fat baby versions of Epsy and Zeta.
“She’s an animal, Chel.” Riley replied. ”Zeta’s too dumb to realize he’s even a father or make any connection to them. She disobeyed a well known rule among dice, either willfully or the same reason and I fail to believe that she is as dim as Zeta is.”
“I don’t want you to kill them.” Chel persisted.
Neither of them were aware that their conversation was being listened to by an involved party. Zeta was walking down to the balcony from one of the side balconies. He had stopped when he heard his name, curious about what was going on. What he heard was astonishing.
He had been sleeping the entire night in a room that had been set aside for the dice. He knew nothing about the events of the night before and now he was hearing two words which he put together in their simplest terms.
Zeta – Father. Lexx – Father. That was what Maenae called Lexx. Did Zeta have little Maenaes? It baffled him. His mind slowly turned it over. He knew about the nest. He knew about the eggs. The eggs were Epsy’s and somehow, Zeta had something to do with it. He wasn’t sure what, but he did recall the accusations from Stealth about Epsy, eggs and Zeta.
His mind was slow, but things began to slowly click into place.
August Donation Drive (1 Comment)
on August 3, 2008 at 9:06 amFor August, we have a new drive with multiple incentives.
First of all, we have a free bookmark. If you don’t see that post below, you can read it here. (Not technically free since the minimum cost is two stamps and two envelopes.) I SHOULD get them in on Monday, then need to hunt down some bookmark tassels around here. 
Second, the incentive goal. This is for September updates and is pitting AD against Akaelae. The top comic gets M-F updates if the goal of $1,000 is reached. If both comics go over the goal, then there will be extra updates for the second comic as well, just not M-F. (I’m scripting a black and white side story to this chapter.)
Third, name a character when you donate. I’m going to prepare a page a bit later for extra donation wallpapers. Currently, we have Drift with $5 toward a wallpaper and Zeta with $12 toward a wallpaper. I’m thinking about having Wallpapers accumulate to $50, another $50 and it’ll turn into a downloadable print. (It will probably contain a small watermark to separate it from my own prints that way I don’t have anyone ‘stealing’ it and trying to sell it. You’ll be able to know if someone’s taking advantage of my work in ways they shouldn’t.)
Now, because some readers ask me this: Donations are going toward groceries, gas, medication, doctors visits (I have two upcoming, Kim has two as well this month. Fortunately we have insurance so they only run $25-$35 each.) They are also going toward Tax free weekend to stockpile clothing for Kim. She starts school in just a few weeks and I will suddenly have… a REAL WORKING DAY! I will no longer have constant interruptions. It’ll be like when I was updating multiple comics all at once! (And I do intend to take AD back to 3 times a week full page updates if I can manage it once she goes back to school.)
Oops. Ok, the delay is entirely MY fault. I’m not exactly sure WHY, but it is my fault. I’ve been working on the page all day (outside of real life things I needed to get done) and just didn’t complete it. I’m on the background part of it, so it WILL update by noon on Tuesday. The next update will be on Thursday, then Saturday… then we go to the Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule.
Oh.. and the bookmarks are in! I have a thousand of them. I’ve only received ONE letter asking for one!
