Jay Eaton
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Runaway to the Stars: Page 245 and 246
🕑 Added 2025-11-22 18:00:09 +0000 UTCTada! Centaurs!
This twist has consistently surprised most people reading through the entire book in one shot, but it was instantly demolished by fans who have been rereading the same pages for years and sharing theories with each other. It did sting a lot to see those readers start discussing this like it was obvious and inevitable, though. I can understand now why authors sometimes panic and change story lines when readers correctly guess a twist. But despite what my ego wants, it's not my job to outsmart 1000+ people, it's my job to tell a compelling and cohesive story. So, readers being able to pick up on clues and see the train coming is a good thing. ...However, I did do a just a smidgen of comment gaslighting, to keep those readers engaged...
Patreon subscribers, do me a huge favor and don't spoil this for the public webcomic readers. It's going to leak out anyways through Twitch streams of later pages but I will delete comments on the webcomic site that get too cheeky about knowing it. I have to do at least that much. For my ego.
Comments
Rapaz
I keep coming back to watch them. they all look very nightchaser except for the one with darker feathers, which I think looks more shess both in markings and in jewelry. they also have a pierced trunk, so either they were either already born in a nightchaser clan or got pierced after being married in. the first option is somewhat more interesting because then I wonder if their shess-looking jewelry is inherited from an ethnically shess sire that married into a nomad clan. this page is gorgeous and seeing the twist coming does not make it any less thrilling to read. if anything I think talita herself would have guessed it too, if she hadn't been preocuppied with legally-dubious starship repairs on top of her usual anxieties
Jabberwock130
ooh, I cant help but notice, that although you've changed the matriarchs ethnicity from her original design from Shta to Nightchaser, you made one of her entourage Shta as an homage to the original design
