It’s a good thing I don’t really do narration text anymore, or I’d be writing “meanwhile” every other page. But yeah, Layla and Trigger are both finding out what other people are up to, in their different yet somehow similar ways. Who knew loudly blurting out things other people aren’t supposed to hear was such a valuable negotiating tactic?

(also, it’s a small thing, but I really like how the background in the first panel turned out. It’s not even that the drawing is all that good, it’s just… I dunno, it feels more like it’s actually “behind” the characters rather than just drawn around them)

And speaking of strangely familiar situations, the new Voting Incentive takes Trigger’s flashback in a direction we’ve definitely seen before.