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THE BESTWAY To Do THAT IS 10 Have staveD AWAY. BUT THIS VERSION OF CAMELOT STARTED WITHOUT MY HELP. FATES NOT YET LOCKED INTO ITS CONSTRUCTION. T WONDER 10 DIFFER. THAT Was Mm) PLAN. HOW THEY'LL 0, T BEG I RECOGNIZE YOU. ILL-MADE KNIGHT INDEED, BUT I WAS y V DRAWN BACK ONCE HEARD SECOND CHANCES ARE THE ENTIRE PURPOSE BEHIND THIS THE “He! MUNDY eAbuRE ease ts comne) ( He MUNEY MeASIRE Vo Oe att ee WN = 4 ALONG QUICKLY, AFM beg MONT BE THROUGH | == | TF THIS ONE > WEYLAND. clock. ‘ANY FAULT OF THE : THE WALLS: CURPER age TAKING SHAPE, yi fy AND TILL FINISH THE A a]: LAST OF THE caRl- - 5 Bs ING ON YOUR TABLE ‘ Ai b TODAY. ULTIMATELY T COULDN'T RESIST THE CHANCE 10 D0 ITALL AGAIN, BUT GET IT RIGHT THIS TINE, PROBABLY. MAYBE ENOUGH TO RENOVE A LINK oR YN TWO FROM MY CHAIN OF SINS. "ARE YOU GOING TO EXPOSE ME, FAIRY THANK YOU EACH FOUGHT BRAVELY AND egal A COMPETED WITH A VIGOR THAT Meal BRINGS YOU HONOR. THaT s1 You'Re THAT STONE ‘SLACK ISN'T GOING TO ICKING, BRANDISH 4 NOVE /TBELE TO = j A LORDS BELOW. YOU DON'T ITS WORSE THAN ¥ ACTUALLY HAVE ANY. T THOUGHT. A IDEA WHO YOUR MOTHER S WAS; 00 You? PLEASE DONT I LOOK AT ME LIKE Tm AN IMBECILE. Ea Pest, vou ave x ANSWER A GUESTION oR > wn calblors = a “THEY DON'T LIKE 10 TAKE CHANCES, AND ARE ETERNALLY SUSPICIOUS OF INNOVATION. NOR DO THEY HAVE MUCH IN THE WAY OF IMAGINATION. "GO, WHEN YOU SET OUT 10 RECREATE SOMETHING AS POWERFUL AND EVOCATIVE ‘AS CAMELOT, YOU'RE PRAC- TICALLY BEGGING FOR ‘TROUBLE. “LIKE CHILDREN, THEY MOSTLY WANT TO HEAR, THE SAME COMFORTABLE AND BELOVED STORIES OVER AND OVER AGAIN. “THE FATES ARE LIKELY To STEP IN AND FORCE EVERYTHING TO HAPPEN THIS TIME JUST LIKE ITDID LAST TIME.” [/-sure, Rose, you're I THE] THIS TIME TO GET BETRAYED | | KING ARTHUR ROLE THIS TIME, By EN, OR TO-- SO THERE PROBABLY WON'T GE A CHEATING QUEEN, PER SE. = ‘BUT IM DOING IT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, :0/ THAT MIGHT NOT BE ENOUGH OF A DIFFERENCE. J Gu Gay iy Py é yy) hy / Q \ i ZA AY THERE ARE. TRADITIONALLY TWO SOURCES OF CRISIS IN YOUR BASIC CAMELOT SCENARIO. T COVERED THE "UNFAITHUL YES, I KNOW, ‘BUT THE MOST DANGEROUS CHALLENGE IS THE ONE YOU ‘GPEARHEADED BACK INTHE FIRST ITERATION, WHO Is MosT. LIKELY T0 BE ROSE RED'S MORGAN LE Fey RIVAL AND ENEMY THIS TIME? ARTHUR'S: FATHER KILLED MY FATHER SO HE COULD RAPE tty MOTHER No DON'T LOOK W AT ME. T HAD Goop REASONS FOR WHAT T DID LAST TIME, TVE GOT NOTHING Miss Le Fey. EVERYONE KNOWS YOUR A £10 tae AGAINST ROSE RED. IN FACT SHE APPROACHED ME ABOUT BECOMKI DS THE MORE OR LESS f° OFFICAL COURT SORCERER OF THE NEW CAMELOT. TIME YOU WERE THE VILLAIN, AND NOW YOU'RE CAST IN THE MERLIN ROLE. LEAR ON Why yOu WORE TLL NEEDED TO HAVE A os PRIVATE CHAT STE FOE WITH AE, TWO REASONS, REALLY, THIS IS ALONG. WALK T0 TAKE ALONE, AND WASN'T SURE OF THE WAY. ‘60, HIKING GUIDE AND GOOD COMPANY IS THE FIRST REASON. pS IMPORTANT, T CAN USE Your ¥~ AND HERE: WHO MIGHT END UP IN THE MORGAN LE FEY ROLE THIS TIME--SINCE IT WON'T BE YOU. WAIT! WOLF MANOR? 7 Oz tHine youre LADIES OF THE MIST! You VY READING Way 100 THINK IT'S SNOWZ WHY NOT? MUCH INTO MINOR YOU WERE STAND THERE'S BEEN | SIMILARITIES. SNOW ARECENT FALLING , WON'T TURN ON RO: OUT BETWEEN AND SNOW’ IGN'T A POWERFUL SORCERESS, "ANYONE AROUND HERE KNOW WHERE ROSE AND ‘SNOW REALLY CAME FROM? DON'T YOU PEOPLE DO’ BACKGROUND CHECKS? ‘A POWERFUL, ESTRANGED SIBLING. wit a special WUT Vx THINK TO PROTECT HER “CHILD , SNOW'S THE MORDRED" FROM THE ds” TICKET. NEW KING? = WONDER WHICH OF HER BRATS WILL TURN OUT TO BE ‘MORDRED? IF WE TIMED THIS VISIT RIGHT, WE MIGHT EVEN GET, BREAKFAST. WHY NOT? AFTER ALL, WE'RE ONLY HERE TO ACCLSE SNOW WHITE ‘AND ONE OF HER KIDS OF BASE VILLAINY. THAT'LL ‘ALMOST CERTAINLY EARN US BACON AND EG6S. “SHE'S POOPING -- Be sai POOP? DIDN'T MEAN TO. iT JUST SLIPPED out. CANT ASK YOu A PRETTY PERSONAL N By sopcamn QUESTION? ,| HY HAVEN'T you MADE A MOVE: (ON ME YET? Goop. NAME FOR A COCKTAIL, THERE'S SOME T FORGOT 1 ‘ADVANTAGE? T'VE BEEN PRACTICALLY THROWING VE BEEN LOOKING EVERYWHERE. We EN VERY a poncHew @tHem2 © i or THEM? ‘SEE? THAN’ OUT. NEITHER SHOWNS: FATES. I DON’ RIGHT. RECEIVE IT. LATER T HAD A GREATER APPRECIATION OF WHO HANDED OUT FATES. 1 DECIDE! THE TERRIBLE AUTHORITY I WIELDED. BUT HAPPENED To WHO, SOMETIME: WAS STILL AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE ONE ‘ON MY OWN WHIMS IN CHARGE, ALOOF FROM MY OWN PROFESSION, MAYBE WE SHOULD THINK ABOUT GETTING YOU 10 BED, ‘OKAY? ‘GON DRINK ALL NIGHT 'N ‘ALL DAY, TODAY, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, T WAS CONFRONTED WITH MY PARTICULAR FATE. My OWN FUTURE. TODAY I BECAME JUST ‘ANOTHER ONE OF THE CONTROLLED. wun Fs Were

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