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12 Comments

1. 

   Herandar

   January 25, 2016 at 8:14 am

   The punchline is that they immediately flee through the lake, and Hishla gets to keep Pewter.
2. 

   Brian

   January 25, 2016 at 10:44 am

   Anna doesn’t have three side-kicks, she has three front-kicks. I’ve been boggled since the beginning about why this is named after her.
3. 

   0z79

   January 25, 2016 at 4:28 pm

   @Brian I think TV Tropes would label her “The Load”. Someone completely essential for one very important thing, but incompetent to the point of endangering themselves or others.

   And like any character of this type, growth and development are extremely satisfying to see. 🙂
4. 

   night-gaunt

   January 25, 2016 at 5:24 pm

   So they are just going to let Anna drown? Tossing her in the lake is rather dangerous. What am I missing here?
5. 

   Stewart

   January 25, 2016 at 5:44 pm

   I still want a pottybot/nannybot crossover fanfic.
6. 

   Christopher Baldwin

   January 25, 2016 at 9:45 pm

   @Brian, it isn’t always the role, sometimes it can be the growth. She started off as a novel-reading kid afraid of her own shadow, and this story is the story of her and her inner growth arc towards action/confidence/etc. So, to end big with a growth story, you need to start small.

   And Teapot and Foxglove are somewhat static, their growth is about their storyline, and how their relationship grows.
7. 

   andreas

   January 26, 2016 at 2:07 am

   And Teapot and Foxglove are somewhat static

   Quite, you have only thrown the one afraid of flying on an alien glider, mortally wounded the other one by nudist crab-stabbing, and are forcing both out of their comfort zone (themselves) and work together in their little posse. All in a days work for a story-teller 😉
8. 

   Christopher Baldwin

   January 26, 2016 at 8:49 am

   Hahahaha! Fair enough. 🙂
9. 

   Muzhik

   January 26, 2016 at 12:15 pm

   @Andreas, what are you talking about? I don’t see Pewter being forced out of HIS comfort zone?

   (Does Pewter HAVE a comfort zone? Or would that consist of being pushed off the edge of the world counting all the turtles all the way down?)
10. 

    andreas

    January 26, 2016 at 3:49 pm

    @ Muzhik
    I think Pewter’s comfort zone only encompasses whatever he is carrying in those handy drawers… but their contents may have shifted in flight.
11. 

    KNO3

    January 26, 2016 at 6:32 pm

    Is Anna breathing?
12. 

    Galane

    January 27, 2016 at 2:46 am

    @Andreas Nanny-bot drawers are packed by weight not by volume. Some settling of contents may occur in shipping.