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Chapter 8: Heavy Water
A closeup of a coffee table fades out of blackness, showing three different people's hands. A hotpad sits in the middle of the table with three normal sized mugs around it. On the far side of the table, next to an empty seat on the couch, is a four cup glass measuring jug full of water. The jug has stickers on the outside of a helicopter, an airplane, a flower, and a cartoon quailicorn; along with rectangular labels reading "TALITA ONLY."
Otília: Tea, Mx. Derringer?
Mel: Thank you, Otília.
Otília pours tea from a teapot into a mug held in Mel's hands. The other seated person rests their hand on the table. It is an older hand, with scars on the fingers.
Other person: Shouldn’t Talita be here for this?
20 thoughts on “Runaway to the Stars: Page 213”
Eux
the most ominous page of tea service ever. <3
HAL9000
either a flashback, or talita is even more sentimental then she’ll admit (dont worry girl as a grown ass man i also decorate my shit with stickers. really cuts down on theft in the worksite when you’re the only one with dinosaur stickers on your tools ;P )
Raydfil
OHHHHH WE’RE SO BACK IM SO HYPED ABOUT THIS YAY YAY YAY MY FAVORITE WEBCOMIC
hi doug !!!!! please speak up for talita she deserves to know whats about to happen.
Fallingfeather
The quailicorn sticker on the cup! :3
Lilac
Theres a talita only pitcher but they’re asking *if* talita should be here not *why* talita isn’t here is there another centaur there…..
Skrymer
This has to be a flashback: the small “cup” for Talita (with stickers!), and the unnamed third person would NOT visit Dirtball without telling Talita.
Teod
How do you actually pronounce “Mx”?
Frankie
most commonly, I hear it pronounced “mix”!
jasper
I use mx! The other commenter is right, it’s pronounced like “mix” 🙂
Tye
Hey, not sure if this is intended, but on my side of the site as a viewer, the “prev” button goes back to the RTTS Reader Questions, but that page doesn’t link back to this one. So if you navigate backwards you can’t get to this newest page without going to the main site page. I hope I’m explaining that correctly. Very intriguing page..
Light_In_The_Fog
I’m experiencing this too! There isn’t a NEXT or NEW button on the previous page
OccidentalAvian
The page’s cache just needs to be updated, it’ll fix itself within a day.
Tye
Oh, thanks for the heads-up. I didn’t know that’s how it worked.
Harumin
I’D KNOW THOSE BITE SCARS ANYWHERE
Good Doug to actually, ya know, address the fact that major changes ostensibly for Talita are being done without Talita’s involvement. I’m so excited to see this push her to finally join the Runaway crew
edenmachine5457
.OH MY GOD I DIDN’T EVEN NOTICE THE BITE SCARS… good eye! so excited to see doug take up a role in the comic 😀
Adrienne
Just ventured down to the comments to say the same thing 🙂
Vinemaple
One of my favorite things about this community is longtimers like you, who share your deep observation and knowledge with us. I for some reason have an extra hard time scanning a comic page for this level of detail and implication.
Also I’m really impressed with how Jay puts these little details in here, so the reader community doesn’t have to spend 48 hours scratching their heads over a panel like this.
Makes me wonder what kind of heavy foreshadowing we don’t yet know we’re getting…
Famout
And if Talita isn’t there, why is her glass there…..
Also even being a “large mug” (measuring glass) it still feels small for Centaur size…
edenmachine5457
.im guessing either this is talita’s house or one of the new centaur dirtball crew is visiting (because we all know who’s coming soon by now)
JoB
Or this is actually a flashback; after all, Talita has known both Mel and Doug since before she came to Dirtball. (“Otília” is an unknown to me.)