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[Image ID: a digital comic page with the main illustration in the top right corner of the page. Hysteria sits in her chair scowling at Alistair. His cloak cuts a dark silhouette in the foreground of the image. The text reads: “Ruth is pregnant with your godchild. She’ll be eight weeks along now.” “I’ll send her my condolences.” Alistair scowls. “Be serious. Our family wants you home. It’s time to remember your responsibilities.” “What, now?!” “Yes, obviously.” Hysteria makes a show of rolling her eyes, but it doesn’t matter. This is what she’s been waiting for. She casts about the room, as if taking one last long look. No one notices her. The little blonde witch is gone. The room is darkening slowly as the evening wears out. Hysteria will go back. She will help Ruth raise her child. She will do her duty to her family, and she will reap all of the thrilling rewards. /End ID]

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[Image ID: a digital comic page with one main illustration in the center of the page. The text is above and below. In the illustration, Alistair stands over Hysteria’s table as she pulls her gloves back on. Alistair is wearing a dark cloak with a high collar. They both look unhappy to see each other. The text reads: She’s pulling her gloves back on when another witch appears suddenly beside her. She may owe it to the champagne, but she’s proud of herself that she doesn’t flinch. “I’ve tracked you all over the continent by now,” he says. It’s her brother: come to fetch her at last. “Have you enjoyed your travels?” Hysteria asks. “Not at all.” “That’s a shame. Sit down. Have a drink.” Hysteria gestures to the empty glasses at her table. They fill instantly. “Witches here and their decadence,” he sneers. “Godmother would hex you if she found out.” “Fortunately for me, she won’t find out.” Hysteria pointedly takes a sip from her glass. “What brings you to the world, Alistair?” As if she doesn’t already know.../End ID]

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[Image ID: a digital comic page with three panels and text throughout the page. Panel one is a close up of the other witch’s face in profile. She looks terrified and is crying. Panel two is a very short and wide panel showing vague silhouettes of the other witches in the salon all turning to look at the viewer. In the last panel, Hysteria slumps in her chair and looks morosely into her champagne glass. The text reads: Her voice rises above the banter of the salon. People are turning to look. Hysteria’s stomach twists. When she lets go, the other witch staggers and falls butt-first onto the floor beside their table. Hysteria doesn’t bother trying to help her up. Her face feels as if it is burning. “Would it help if I put the gloves back on?” She asks. “N-no” the witch blubbers as she gathers herself. “I’m sorry for frightening yo-” Hysteria watches the other witch scamper away without a word. Their audience is turning away again, shrewdly probing for some other catastrophic event. Hysteria slumps in her shadowy corner. She finishes the champagne in her glass./End ID]

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[Image ID: a digital comic page with one large illustration at the bottom and text above it. In the illustration, Hysteria and the other witch are in profile. Hysteria is standing above her and gripping her arms. The other witch’s head is turned to stare down at Hysteria’s hands touching her. Her expression is frightened. Hysteria herself looks desperate and panicked. The text reads: It doesn’t help. Even inebriated in the bowels of the capital, any witch will know what stricken limbs imply. Even for Hysteria, whose curse only reaches as far as her forearms and has not spread farther. The witch is standing, making her apologies. Hysteria can sense her own cheeks glowing. Her throat feels hot and itchy. Without thinking, Hysteria lunges for her. She grips the other woman’s arms tightly. The trapped witch lets out a shriek, her entire body bowing away at a violent angle. “Look,” Hysteria hisses, rising. “Nothing’s happening. I’m touching you, and you’re perfectly fine.” The other witch starts to cry. “Let me go! Let me go!”/End ID]

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[Image ID: a digital comic page with one large illustration and text around it. In the illustration, Hysteria lifts her bare hands towards the viewer. In the center of both palms are large scars which glow bright yellow. There are smaller veiny scars branching off from the center of her palms up into her fingers and down her arms to her elbows. Around her wrists and forearms are shiny metal bands. She wears similar rings on each of her fingers. Her expression is distressed and a little frightening. Her eyes glow orange in the darkness. There is blue and muave colored smoke curling around her arms and eeking out of her mouth. The text reads: The both of them stare. “Ah... Your hands,” the witch says. “It’s- just ignore them.” Hysteria reaches up, leans in for more kissing. The other witch shrinks away. “They’re stricken!” she exclaims, recoiling when Hysteria lifts her palms in an imploring gesture. “It’s not going to rub off on you.”.End ID]

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[Image ID: a digital comic page with three panels centered in the middle of the page and some text around it. The first panel is a close up of Hysteria and the blonde witch kissing. In the second panel, Hysteria kisses the other witch’s neck as her gloved hand slides down to the witch’s shoulder. In the third panel, Hysteria’s hand has slid down further and their fingers are interlaced in the air beside them. Breaking the panels is a pattern of softly flowing transparent sunset colored smoke. The text reads: And the little blonde witch who giggles when Hysteria smiles at her from across the room. She giggles some more when Hysteria plies her with champagne. And even more when, emboldened by the lateness of the hour and the champagne and the dimness of the witchlight, Hysteria pins her to her little chair and kisses her deeply. The giggling stops abruptly when the other witch takes Hysteria’s hands and peels away the thin satin gloves she wears...End ID]

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[Image ID: a digital comic page split diagonally into 3 main panels with some text. The panel borders are drawn to look like champagne flowing from a bottle and appear smoke-like or cloudlike. The first panel features a woman with her head tilted back and her mouth open. Just resting lightly in the air above her waiting tongue is a brilliant, six pointed star emitting sparks of light. In the second panel, two witches are excitedly sipping from wine glasses. The witch in the foreground has glowing bright yellow irises and her dark hair is being blown back as if by a strong wind. More different sized glasses sit on a table in front of them. The very last panel features a number of couples making out. These couples are all queer and mostly F/F. The text reads. She likes the food, and then wine! The conversation!/.End ID]

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[Image ID: a digital comic page with some text and one main illustration at the bottom of the page. Hysteria lounges with her eyes closed in a single chair at a small table. She’s smiling. The area around her is dark but for some yellow, orange and blue smoke which billows from the diffuser at her table. She has a glass of champagne in her hand. The text reads: It’s a magnificent way to avoid her responsibilities. The clubs themselves are a hotbed of irresponsibility. City witches call them “salons”, but they are so unlike their original make. These salons are fantastical and uninhibited. Hysteria believes she wouldn’t dislike antiquated witching traditions so strongly if their modern counterparts weren’t entirely that much better. She likes the theatrical quality of it all; the way the rooms turn and twinkle mysteriously like the rotations of the heavens. She likes how the witches here are unsubtle and friendly. She likes that the solemnity of the craft is nearly non-existent, with the chatter of the room and the walls laden with glittering artifacts. Potions to induce happiness and contentment sit in diffusers at each table, beside every chaise lounge.../.End ID]

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[Image ID: a digital comic page with four panels and some text. The main colors for this section are blue, mauve, orange and yellow. In the first panel, Hysteria flies over a brightly lit city on broomstick. In the second panel just beside it, she is landing lightly on the ground. There are buildings around her, and a sky of stars above her. Her cloak is flowing around her body. In the third panel, she’s approaching a bright building which people are walking in and out of. The last panel takes up the whole bottom half of the page. Hysteria stands at the top of a winding staircase. Her hair is now very short and curly, she wears a simple necklace, a dark blue collared shirt which is unbuttoned at the top, mauve gloves, and black pants. She is exchanging sly glances with a light skinned blonde femme who is descending the staircase in front of her. The round room beyond is brightly lit with chandeliers. There are many tables in the center of the room, as well as seating in corners half-shrouded with curtains. The text reads: And then, finally, back to Hudanse. /.End ID]

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[Image ID: a digital comic page with some text and one large illustration. The illustration shows Hysteria and Adele in bed together. Adele is a short, dark skinned woman with her hair in bantu knots. She is wearing a light yellow nightgown. Hysteria has chin-length hair and is wearing a dark blue nightgown and long lavender gloves which reach past her biceps. Adele is laying against Hysteria, but is propped up on her arms so they are face to face. They are smiling at each other. In the room behind them are the silhouettes of a table, a mannequin and a sewing machine. The text reads: They were on again, it seemed. “Come back with me,” Hysteria had murmured sweetly, almost pleadingly. “The house will be mine soon, You can have your pick of any room.” “To sleep in?” Adele queried with a smile. “To work in. My bed is so much warmer.” Adele had hummed, kissed her once, and lay back down against her pillow. Silently, Hysteria decided this didn’t bother her. Or rather, she decided not to bother. She knew that if she pushed the topic, The true answer would be “no”. Hysteria didn’t want to hear it, so she slept that night beside Adele and said her goodbyes the next morning.  /.End ID]

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[Image ID: a digital comic page with some text one large illustration of a map at the bottom. The map features a silhouette of Hysteria on her broomstick. Zig-zagging across the page behind her are red lines detailing her trek across the map. The landmass is dark blue and the ocean is lavender, orange and yellow and blue stars are scattered throughout the page. The text reads: The Salons, as Witching Clubs do, make everything go away. This is why Hysteria likes them. She’d left the country almost as soon as the wedding ended, knowing full well what she was leaving behind, but not wanting to think about it until she was needed again. Until her family saw fit to fetch her back. This is how she spent six months in a familiar, frolicking jaunt across the continent. She first flew south, to Hudanse, then further still, down through a warm countryside laden with vineyards. She flew over the Islands, skipping across them like stepping stones; then, on a whim, skirted across the sea to meet with an on-again-off-again girlfriend in the port city of far-away Tinus... /.End ID]

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[Image ID: this is a page of digital artwork which features a dark background which looks like the night sky. Across the top left corner is the faint gray pattern of a scar, which is reminiscent of Talia Hardbroom’s scar from earlier in the chapter. Across the bottom right corner is a faded blue billow of smoke. In the around center of the page are faint gray and blue specks as well as some orange star-like dimonds. /.End ID]

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[Image ID: a digital art piece drawn in sepia tones with a gray background. The art features a middle aged woman sitting on a couch with three young girls. She has a large book in her lap, the three little girls are snuggled in around her and have fallen asleep. The woman is looking down at the book and smiling. To her right is a dark window with some stars showing through. Below this initial drawing is a copy of the same drawing except the woman’s head is lifted and she’s staring out the window with an expression of concern on her face. /.End ID]

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[Image ID: a digital comic page with three panels and no text. The first panel is an image of Ruth from the waist up, she’s still seated at the wedding feast. The second panel is a close up of her face, she is looking to the side and her expression is surprised. The last panel takes over about 3/4s of the page. Ruth is staring out a large arched gothic window. Alistair is to her other side, closest to the viewer. He has not noticed what is going on outside the window. There are some nondescript dishes and a candelabra on the dinner table they’re sitting at. Out the window, Hysteria is silhouetted against the moon as she flies off on her broomstick. /.End ID]

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[Image ID: a digital comic page with 3 panels and no text. In the first panel, a booted foot steps on the ground. Panel two shows Hysteria silhouetted against a light background. She has a hat on, a neat suit jacket and thigh high boots. She’s holding a broomstick and a small bag. In the bottom half of the page, the image pulls back again to reveal Hysteria stepping out of a door with an ornate frame. The light casts her shadow on the steps in front of her. /.End ID]

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[Image ID: a digital comic page with 3 panels and no text. The first panel shows a silhouette of the Stonetower mansion at night. Golden light fills the windows. The second panel shows a close-up of one of those windows. The last panel takes over the whole bottom half of the page and shows the interior dining room of the house. Ruth sits beside Alistair, but stares disappointedly to her other side where there is an empty chair. Alistair seems unbothered by her. Godmother sits on the other side of him, chattering with someone else off-panel. /.End ID]

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[Image ID: a digital comic page with 5 panels and no text. In the first panel, Ruth walks down the aisle to be married. She is wearing the locket. Music notes are scattered around this panel. In the second panel, Ruth has arrived at the end of the aisle and is facing her soon-to-be husband, Alistair. Alistair looks a lot like Hysteria, with light eyes, thick eyebrows and black hair cut short to his head. Hysteria lingers just behind him at his shoulder. The third panel shows the three from profile. Just behind them, at the head of the aisle, are the 5 statues from earlier. From left to right: Earth, Heavens, Immortality, Fertility, and Death. Immortality stands directly in the middle, as if the statue were the one saying the marriage rights for the couple. The fourth panel is a close up of Ruth and Alistair’s hands as he puts a wedding ring on her finger. The final panel shows a close up on Immortality, looking down at the viewer. The eyeball gleams in it’s smiling grinning mouth./.End ID]