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Chapter V: VII

on August 17, 2015
Chapter: chapter V
Characters: Felix, Justa
Location: Roma Urbs, Rome
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  1. avatar
    David Watson
    August 17, 2015, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    One cannot go to the queen with dirty legs… we’ll wash them.
    Bless you children: take what joy you can in the moment. Evil things are always waiting around the next frame!

  2. avatar
    David Watson
    August 17, 2015, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    In other words: Awwwww.

    • avatar
      klio
      August 17, 2015, 2:07 am | # | Reply

      Awwwww…But, yes, there are evil things just around the next frame. They can get another few panels of peace/fun first, though.

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        Larry
        August 17, 2015, 2:17 am | # | Reply

        I dread when an author says that. I hope everything turns right for both of them. Venus has been trying to couple these two for somebtime now. Don’t wreck her job, please.

        • avatar
          klio
          August 17, 2015, 5:23 pm | # | Reply

          Perhaps it’ll be a danger they can face together, as a couple.

          • avatar
            Larry
            August 17, 2015, 5:33 pm | # | Reply

            That would be nice. But unfortunately characters have a tendency to have a mind of their own and usually pay no mind to their creators intentions.

  3. avatar
    Larry
    August 17, 2015, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    I like that kind of goddesses that directly command people to join. 😛

    I am glad that Felix is still thinking about Mus when he wanted to wait to be certain that Iusta is not pregnant. Too bad she isn’t because she does not want to wait.

    And now Game of Volcanoes is in full swing. Late Summer-Early Autumn Is Coming!

  4. avatar
    Larry
    August 17, 2015, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    Just a small observation. The camera angle in the third panel, second row, makes Iusta look as if she is kneeling in front of Felix.

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      Larry
      August 17, 2015, 1:01 am | # | Reply

      I think that the problem is with Felix’s torso. His torso is facing Iusta when it should be facing to her right. Not a critcism, just an observation. At least in my case it breaks the continuity of the other panels.

      • avatar
        klio
        August 17, 2015, 1:56 am | # | Reply

        That’s fair. I might redraw it before a printed version comes along.

        • avatar
          Larry
          August 17, 2015, 2:18 am | # | Reply

          Well, right now my very naughty mind is giving me images of what a kneeling Iusta is anout to do. 🙂

          • avatar
            klio
            August 17, 2015, 5:14 pm | # | Reply

            Mus’s mum left the young ladies alone with one of the older servant women to teach them about such things, but the girls didn’t believe her.

            • avatar
              David Watson
              August 17, 2015, 5:43 pm | # | Reply

              Maybe Mus learned a few moves from his handsome Greek servant.

              • avatar
                klio
                August 17, 2015, 5:59 pm | # | Reply

                whisper/ It’s pretty much certain he did. /whisper

              • avatar
                klio
                August 17, 2015, 7:44 pm | # | Reply

                whispering some more/ The word I was looking for was “indubitably,” but it escaped me at the time. /whisper

              • avatar
                Larry
                August 17, 2015, 7:58 pm | # | Reply

                Mus spent a lot of time taking lessons with his Greek servant.

  5. avatar
    Chantel
    August 17, 2015, 1:30 am | # | Reply

    Yay!!!! I love the idea of these two together!!!

    • avatar
      klio
      August 17, 2015, 2:04 am | # | Reply

      I’ve actually been wondering whether there’ll be any objections–we’ll see 😀

      • avatar
        Larry
        August 17, 2015, 2:13 am | # | Reply

        There is none from me.

      • avatar
        CJG
        August 17, 2015, 6:48 pm | # | Reply

        Eh, when in Rome.

        One can make the argument that she is too young (15 I’m guessing by now?) but in a society where you married young I think it gets a pass.

        • avatar
          klio
          August 17, 2015, 7:42 pm | # | Reply

          Yeah, she’d be considered a fully adult woman.

          Which of course means she’ll perpetually need someone to be in charge of her….

          • avatar
            Larry
            August 17, 2015, 7:59 pm | # | Reply

            Thankfully her dad is dead so she only has to concern herself with her husband.

      • avatar
        FDChief
        August 17, 2015, 10:28 pm | # | Reply

        Not from me, either; they both deserve some nepenthe from their sorrows and someone to care for, and if they can find it in each other, well…

        • avatar
          FDChief
          August 17, 2015, 10:30 pm | # | Reply

          WTF? Oops! Sorry about the double post. Should have listened when it told me it had already posted the comment…

          • avatar
            klio
            August 17, 2015, 10:57 pm | # | Reply

            I deleted one of them for you–but I really wish I could get that “double post” glitch de-glitched!

  6. avatar
    David Watson
    August 17, 2015, 9:00 am | # | Reply

    Well I suppose Mus might object when he finds out… on the other hand, the arrangement might be his only way to get Felix in his bed or wherever.

    • avatar
      klio
      August 17, 2015, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

      See, one can always turn lemons into lemonade.

  7. avatar
    David Watson
    August 17, 2015, 9:01 am | # | Reply

    Or the Inglenook or the linen closet or in the attic-space…. the possibilities are endless to a true adventurer.

    • avatar
      klio
      August 17, 2015, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve always wanted an inglenook. It’s so hard to find one these days.

      • avatar
        David Watson
        August 17, 2015, 5:41 pm | # | Reply

        When you build your spiffy artists retreat in Upstate NY, you can have an inglenook in every cabin if you like.

        • avatar
          klio
          August 17, 2015, 6:03 pm | # | Reply

          I’ve been coveting this lovely Guadi-inspired Rivendell-like artist’s retreat being sold by a friend of the family.

          If only he could move it a few hundred miles north, say from Mexico to Austin…. (It doesn’t much look like it could handle a few hundred miles more into the Upstate NY snow.)

          • avatar
            Larry
            August 17, 2015, 8:03 pm | # | Reply

            Ugh! I hate those stuco white faux mediterranean dwellings. Just seeing them makes me feel extreme heat. Unfortunately there are plenty of them where I live. I avoid those places like the plague.

            • avatar
              klio
              August 17, 2015, 11:01 pm | # | Reply

              Did you look at the interior pics, though? I like the fluidity of the space.

              I hope it has air conditioning.

              • avatar
                Larry
                August 17, 2015, 11:50 pm | # | Reply

                I amsure that it is beautiful inside. My problem is that I live in a dry and hot place. These type of buildings while not very popular are not rare either. I always look at them and my eyes hurt because their white stucco is so bright under the sun. It doesn’t help that they are surrounded by desert like land giving to my eyes a picture of being alone in a desert. The use of cacti and other desert flora does not help with the image. They can be surprisingly cool though. Sometimes AC is not even needed thanks to the air flow inside.

  8. avatar
    Ron Andrea
    August 17, 2015, 9:01 am | # | Reply

    There IS a minor complication, of course. Iusta’s husband is not, as both Felix and she believe, dead. If she becomes pregnant … .

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      Larry
      August 17, 2015, 10:06 am | # | Reply

      Right now, he is officially dead. Of course Titus or Domitian can be of help in that respect. On the other hand Iusta can just simply divorce him. Divorce in Roman times was very easy.

      Neither Felix nor Iusta can be accused of adultery since they both believed Mus to be dead. In fact Roman society pushed widows to remarry as soon as possible to prevent harmful effects in the widow’s health thanks to lack of sex. And I am not kidding on that last sentence.

  9. avatar
    susan mudgett
    August 17, 2015, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

    we don’t know she’s not pregnant, only that she beleives she isn’t.

    • avatar
      Larry
      August 17, 2015, 1:49 pm | # | Reply

      Well, the only reason a woman would be sure 100% is if she menstruates.

      • avatar
        corvideye
        September 18, 2015, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

        Actually, while they would have believed that at the time, it’s possible for a woman to menstruate despite being pregnant.

        • avatar
          klio
          September 18, 2015, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

          And if she’s young, it’s her first, she’s under stress, etc., all sorts of signs could go wonky.

          I’m just saying.

    • avatar
      klio
      August 17, 2015, 5:17 pm | # | Reply

      Or, what Kyleen said, below…

  10. avatar
    Marcia Morrison
    August 17, 2015, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

    Or maybe she’ll claim the child (if there is a child) as Mus’s, in order to continue his family and for legal claims on his estate?

    • avatar
      klio
      August 17, 2015, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

      If she thought he was gone forever and there was no other heir left in the family (since all the men had come to Herculaneum), one could justify it a little bit by saying that Mus and Felix are, after all, cousins of some degree. Another justification would be: she needs the income. It’s a little more cynical.

  11. avatar
    kyleen valleaux
    August 17, 2015, 2:27 pm | # | Reply

    Iusta didn’t say what she was SURE about…

    • avatar
      Larry
      August 17, 2015, 2:58 pm | # | Reply

      From the conversation Felix wanted to be sure that Iusta wasn’t pregnant’s with Mus’ child. She said that she was sure and that she didn’t wan’t to wait 10 months before sleeping together. This means, that even if Iusta wasn’t lying, and I believe she wasn’t, any child of hers will be claimed as Felix’s child.

      I don’t believe that Iusta is lying, because she is a very proper matron and won’t deny her dead husband his child. Even if she didn’t love him, she didn’t hate him either. I believe she was actually fond of him as a friend.

  12. avatar
    Larry
    August 17, 2015, 5:36 pm | # | Reply

    I laughed at how Felix’s good intentions flew away as soon as Iusta bared her breast. Thstcwoman really knows how to tempt a man. I think she learned from her lessons in Mus’ paternal home.

  13. avatar
    Jenny
    August 20, 2015, 11:42 pm | # | Reply

    The two of them is a bit of a disconnect, especially when you consider that Iusta was told that if she follwed Felix it would end up in poverty, danger, etc etc, which is why she chose Mus.
    Though looking back through the archives for any other godly revelations she might have had that I’d forgotten, there was that incident where there was someone that she thought was Sejanti telling her to “follow him”, though she was happy enough to ignore that to help Spendusa get Cynthia before Iraneous dragged her away. And Felix seemed to be jumping into everyone’s bed, so maybe it’s not that unsurprising

    • avatar
      klio
      August 21, 2015, 3:58 am | # | Reply

      I went through and tagged the prophecies Iusta heard so they’d be easier to find; I think I found them all. Anything Felix heard from Venus is tagged as visit from Venus.

      At the moment Iusta may think the prophecy was skewed as far as losing everything goes, but all she really has left is the house (albeit probably expensive city real estate), the jewelry she’s wearing, one slave, and whatever survivor stipend meted out by the emperor. All the inheritance from her husband’s fish-pickle fortune… well… even the one slave is part of that.

      I can’t say anything to counter Felix jumping into everyone’s bed, though. He does jump into everyone’s bed.

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