Chapter IV: CCLVII on June 13, 2015 Chapter: chapter IVCharacters: Antonia, Irenaeus, Justa, Urbana, Urbana's DaughterLocation: Misenum, Rome Back in the saddle again. Wobbly, but back, anyway.
Aha the coin! And I approve the name Felicia Antonia. Hooray for more SPQR!
Spendusa thought it would be good luck. Looks like it worked…
i love that little girl only smiles at the baby when no one is looking.
There may be a bit of autobiographical content to that aspect of her character 😀
Glad you’re feeling better! Hope your health continues to improve, whether or not we benefit by getting to see&read your amazing work.
Thank you! It’s always a little bumpy for me when I’m getting back into drawing after a hiatus, but (knock on wood) I’m well past both the health-issues stuff and the post-health-issues-stuff I-want-to-sleep-all-day part too!
Don’t push yourself too fast, much as we’d like to see what happens next! Get healthy (and hopefully stay healthy), pretty please?
So far, so good. Thank you! 🙂
Poor Spendusa: I’m haunted by that bitterly disappointed look on her face as the pyroclastic cloud came rolling down the street.
Hmm. Yes. Life/Fate just really wasn’t inclined to give her a break.
(I say, as if it was just fate, and not an author who decided to base her on one of the unfortunate denizens of the town….)
Well…whatever the original woman’s name was, Fate definitely didn’t give her a break.
Poor Spendusa.
Nine days, so by this time the name of Felix and Damon must be there.
It’s true. The lists should be collated and filed in triplicate in the city of Rome by now.
refresh our memories pls about this coin?
It first shows up in Chapter I, when Felix moves it from his bag to the shrine in his new room:
It may show up other times I don’t recall at the moment, but we also see it when Felix is packing up Spendusa to flee the town:
He tells her to leave it in the shrine, but…