Aug 17, 2026
I enjoyed the combat for the most part, but honestly it does become very difficult to read when the flow of a scene is broken by hundreds of words of uninterrupted expostion. This feels sort of like two separate scenes stitched together with neither really working the other.
I’m also not the biggest fan of Estelle being reduced to a tearful listener with barely any lines or reactions. Throughout the story we’ve seen the Abigail and Estelle personas sort of fight for dominance, and this should be a scene where Estelle either collapses back into the suffering of Abigail or stands strong and defiant as Estelle, but instead it feels a little more like we as the audience are getting exposition, much of which we already knew, just with her as the vehicle. The lore and geopolitics is interesting but I don’t think this was the best way to do it