holleringelk
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Vicksburg 1890
🕑 Added 2025-03-05 03:23:10 +0000 UTC"She hasn't spoken a word to me in nine days. Perhaps it was foolish of me to tell her of her mother's fate at such an early stage. She blames me, and rightfully so. If I had set aside my pride, heeded my brother when the time called for me to be impartial, she and Catherine might well have enjoyed enduring, peaceful lives after the war.
My pursuit of righteousness has damned us all, and I've nothing to show for it. Sam fled the plantation years ago, leaving his family destitute and vulnerable to retaliation from the aggrieved relatives of those slain, and as it stands, I have no hope of tracking him down or bringing him to justice for his monstrous crimes. I shouldn't be alive. I cannot be caught still walking the earth and torn from Ellie a second time, not in the fragile state she is in. I owe it to her to replenish some semblance of hope. She has lost so much-her brother, her mother, the very will to live. It is difficult to fathom how she weathered such misfortune for so long.
It's hard to know how long we'll be sheltering here. It could be years, perhaps decades. I remain uncertain of the long-term conditions of our perplexing illness, only that it ostensibly has bought me time to right my wrongs, and with that time I'm sure Ellie will come around to speaking to me again. I imagine she has much to say. However scathing it may be, it will just be nice to hear her voice once more."
Comments
Neil S
I’m not sure on that. I’m echoing some sentiment from a character of my own, from a longterm project of mine that I hope to make a reality one day. I don’t know that these types of flashes of insight are the right tone and tenor (hehe) for including in her work, which has its own message. I’d, of course, love to collaborate if she feels it would gel but I’m also perfect content to shitpost from the wings lol Though I do appreciate the compliment and the tacit association!
Mari
Elk, WE love you! Always remember that!
Mari
Well damn. Wow. That certainly puts a different spin on the whole "spark/light of hope" thing I've always heard. If/ when Elk compiles all her comics & writing into one massive book, you ought to have, like, a commentary or something.
FallenAngel
If there would be an Oscar for comics I’d nominate you.
Caroline Catlett Gates
Please do take the time at some point! I try to make them as succinct as possible without spoiling too much of TVD, a deeply story driven series that will have tons of written content accompanying it. The Patreon entries are a part of Phase 1.
catcallofcthulhu
Not enough pictures for my half-melted brain to stay focused long enough to read it🥲
Drannix2000
Perplexing illness ELI MY DUDE you turn into powertools built for kaiju.
Colin Hale
Tonal whiplash.
Shabcrab
Now smash cut to Elk Hunt Gremlin Ellie!
Colin Hale
I have been 2/4 on that before, and boy let me tell you, I'm surprised I'm still here.
Alex Lilly
Fair enough, lol. I will wait patiently for the next installment.
Caroline Catlett Gates
TVD phase 1 yes, haha. It's in progress. I will not answer anything that is depicted in the main series.
spannthony
Got danggit
Alex Lilly
🤔 Ok, Elk...Elk, ok... Keep your secrets. =P Do we find out what happened with the tooth soon?
Caroline Catlett Gates
Beautiful as always, Neil. I know I'm not the only one here who adores your input and stellar writing!
Caroline Catlett Gates
It was never confirmed whether or not Eli is responsible for Ellie's condition, only that he acted on impulse during the war and further complicated the growing division within the family.
Neil S
The fire isn't hope; it's greed. A burning set of teeth, gnawing on anything that it can find. It has a drive to stay alive. It has a need to consume. It doesn't hide from itself. It shines bright, a searing light fueled on the most basic of need, of surviving. Anything caught in it's light can't hide what it's done. It's only a matter of time before it chews and chews and chews its way through the will of the wood, until there's nothing left but wisps of smoke of what used to be. What will it do then?
Alex Lilly
That's what I figured with the whole "not speaking to" Eli thing going on. And we know he's responsible (or at least holds himself responsible) for her death (and presumably conversion). Poor guy. Something bad happened for sure.
Caroline Catlett Gates
Correct, Ellie has died very recently here.
Alex Lilly
Which given her "fixed age" on the Elk Hunt wanted poster means she is in fact dead at this point. So many questions about what happened, but I'll have to wait for the next nugget of lore.
Caroline Catlett Gates
I'll only answer that Ellie has been on this earth 35 years at this time.
Alex Lilly
So many questions. Feel free to answer all or none as per usual. First, the art is amazing as always. Second, I've forgotten when Ellie was born, so she'd be how old at this point? Is she alive still or are they both vampires and that's their "perplexing illness"? And her mother and father are dead and her brother is gone, correct?
William Harris
God, that feeling of being lost with no money, nobody to love you and love back, nobody who can understand you, and nothing but a fire to stare at...
Shane Openo
"only that it ostensibly has bought me time to right my wrongs" Only Eli would become a vampire and find a silver lining. "Welp, I can now atone for my sins." Bruh, 😢
