serious! No no no!!! Say it ain't so… I have to admit I feel a tear myself!!! Magic her back to life PLEASE!!!

Meep… was afraid of that…

Holding my breath on this one.

Gnngh, I've been dreading this for the last few panels.

Gnngh, I've been dreading this for the last few panels.

:*( sangiune looks all bright and happy and then he sees bactinescold and lifeless body. he will be traumitized. this is not funny. sanguine will cry.

I hold firmly to the belief that the necklace is going to do something at this point.

If it doesn't, I'm going to cry.

NOOOOOOOH! BACTINE!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

She's not really dead…is she? Come on, even Fang gets to survive. Surely the good guys will make it through too!

Gah her pale face is kinda horrifying !!!!!!

…*sniffle* Awwww!!! I knew it was totally coming but… *cry*

She…..dead?

She's not looking so hot there…

Nooooooes!! Get up, Bactine! Get up! If Fang get to live, you should toooo!!!

-Sits and waits for the next update-

Nooooo!!!! Live, Bactine, live!

!Noah!

Oh! Also, where's the ring? He should have at least had it later in the page…

!Noah!

I love Sanguine's model-on-the-beach pose in the first panel, and his goofy smile, but of course, that last one…

NOOOOOOOOO, Bactine, NOOOOOO!!
—-
Incidentally, I was under the impression that empaths take the wound or whatever upon themselves and then heal/expell the wound from themselves. If I'm correct, then I think Bactine needs to work on the 'ridding oneself of a wound' part.

I gave a little sob when I saw Bactine. She looks pretty, in a way, lying there…

Empaths do have limits.

Is it just me, or does Sangwine look ten years younger in the second to last panel? And then he sees Bactine and is going to grow old again

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I seriously hope she doesn't die!!!!

NOOO!!! She's dead! I like the white streak thingy hehe, look's cool This comic is so awesome! Love it xx

:3 I miss the carefree pages of the early comic, but it's nice to see at least this cycle coming to a close.

This page makes me sad… but optimistically:

Bactine just healed two incredibly hurt people (well, elves- but still)
She would be extremely tired even if she managed to rid herself of both injuries…
Maybe she's sleeping?

But.. I don't really think so. TTATT

me too! healing the mages 'used up' the other healers, or some such, but maybe there will be some kind of miracle here, we don't know yet. i hope she's still alive!

……..!!!!!! O_O OH NO!

me too!!! wow i really wanted to know… great job, me… -.-'
T^T

idk… maybe that's just her hair…?
i'm still wonderin y her hair got all white

right… i think i get it…. the wound transfers… she trades off

wow… now i see i'm not the first to notice… -.-'

whens the next update? I'm about ready to blow up and cry

Tuesdays and Fridays, isn't it?

Hm…how very interesting. I has been a while since I've tried to theorize on anything, so let me try it sans my typical tl;dr fashion.

Pendant of Truth – no king should be without one
http://www.purnicellin.com/lint/2005/12/05/1205…

http://www.purnicellin.com/lint/2007/02/16/0216… and the page following.

Specifically the bit about kings, unicorns and fairies:
http://www.purnicellin.com/lint/2007/08/10/0810…

And of course, the page preceding this.

Haha – the bottom-left strip is great. Reminds me of… Chinese Paladin episode 34. Except with less blood of course.

No… I think Bactine dies like in Chinese Paladin.

Well, obviously, Sangwine has to tell the truth as king with t he Pendant…

The bit about Sangwine's father is promising–the only thing he can do with his blood is to bring back to life the family tree of the Schoeffl line (last name??) and that means Bactine…

And there was that bit about kings, unicorns, and fairies, which is hopeful in Bactine's case since we remembered what Hope did to save Sangwine in Pixie Pass…

Yay for magic! And great, great work on the art, Colby!

HAHAHAHAHA. She be dead lookin. HAHA. And sangwine was so hopeful. ^_^

Of course! You're brilliant!

“She will give everything up in sacriface, but in the end, she'll have nothing.” right ?
Now, what does nothing mean ? Nothing of what ? I'd like to believe that it a good omen, but then I remeber than between two people of differents lifespan, love rarely ends well. It hard to imagine her growing into a old hag while dashing wealthy Sang goes on with life. And with the more fowerful mage gone Colby kwos were, it's ahrd to imagine how they can sort that problem.
Yet, whatever you choose, I think it will be ok ; you makes it so.

aw, yeah, but… [-.-'] wow i feel dum….

ouch

O.O
U… WILL… DIE…. FOR…. LAUGHING!!!!!!!!!!1
jk jk but still O.o

That happened after she healed Zedwig. From the strain, I guess.

This is going to sound odd, but I love comics where not ALL the good guys survive. In war there are many casualties, and actually letting a character we love die is showing a level of realism which is rare.

I am, of course, saddened by Bactine's death, but given how we last saw her I am unsurprised, and therefore not half as strongly affected as most other commenters.

We will see where it goes from here.

Meaning…she's….?

*sobs*

Nooo!!!! She can't die!!
Sang is gonna go on some marvelous quest to bring her back to life or something- right???

This is pretty much my take on it. Comics where everyone we like always lives may be more cheerful, but they don't have the same depth, at least not to me. Bactine's death is (would be, if she's not really dead) a tragedy, but a good one.

oh noes.
do not like.

Very true, but not only that but Bactine + Sang couldn't really work out. Prince elf can't marry any human. It just couldn't work out. She needed to leave somehow.

I still assume she isn't dead or something.

You know, Sangwine always reminded me somewhat of Guybrush, from Monkey Island. It's even worse (in a good way!) in that second to last panel, with his huge grin. He's in for a bad surprise, I'm afraid.

That's the reason I hope she *isn't* dead, though… I was curious to know how how they would work out the problem of their relationship, and to just have one or the other die seems too easy.

Actually, I was going to add that as well- that it does help Sangwine out as he will no longer have to make an impossible choice.
BUT. At the end of the day he's probably going to mourn for her longer this way- as they didn't get to have a life together- than if she died of old age, whether they were together or apart. So it's no blessing in disguise for him, really, is it?

He looks so young and happy in that second-to-last panel…

No..!

No..!

Why would you do this to us, Colby? Why?