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Script: Daphne • Line Art: Plutonian Knight • Colors and Lettering: Octavia Moon

Script: Daphne • Art and Lettering: OneDollarBilly

I dunno, I think Erin switching it up on Miriam and somehow ending up in control of the fantasy would be pretty hot. As for how any of this could be adapted to the real SJI world, I guess I never expected this to become the "new normal". Adrian is still on the way with the new-and-improved watch. Presumably that will be what closes this chapter and gets us to the new state of things.

Only problem with this episode is that I now have to wait for the next one...

By the by, I was re-reading Kanti's dream the other day. It starts with Laura as a gift for Q, but then there's a surprising amount of focus on Erin, who has been recruited - by her own assessment - as a whore who'll do anything Q wants, anytime, anywhere. And then Miriam turns up, and Kanti reveals that Q can marry Miriam and have children with her, while Kanti remains his mistress.

So it's kind of like the roles of Erin and Miriam in Kanti's dream have been reversed in their own dreams (if they can be said to be their own dreams).

I'm a little worried that Erin's dress is morphing into some kind of nurse's uniform. If that's the intention, I suppose it would still mean that she was under the doctor's command at least. But if it means she's going to come out of this less of a victim than Miriam, that would be very disappointing.

A problem we definitely do face now is that we have another specific dream, possibly being dreamed by both Erin and Miriam, where we have a relationship being laid out between those two specific women. Where can this go in the real world? Where does Aiken's dream of controlling specifically Erin go? Will Aiken turn up in this dream? There are currently only two male roles available. Previously I figured he might be being lined up as the husband; I hope he isn't already the doctor.

Anyway, if this is programming, it's too specific to be acted upon in some other way. Erin being a slave to the doctor while paying (literal) lip service to her husband is workable, adaptable in the real world. It's hard to see how Erin introducing cock-crazy Miriam to her husband while she does the dishes can be turned into something other than what we're seeing here.

And that tends to suggest to me that this is never going to be acted upon in the real word. And the increasing sense that that isn't going to happen is draining all the heat out of this. But it does indeed seem more likely at this point that this is going to resolve itself within the dream.

Gonna keep crossing my fingers for that mother-daughter threesome down the road.

That's an interesting point. I was about to comment on how this comic almost makes it seem like Erin is fighting back in her own way by turning the fantasy she is trapped in into a trap for Miriam. Call this the "Miriam v Erin Mind Duel" theory.

But the kind of inversion you're pointing out does lean more towards the theory that there is some other force behind the scenes. An echo of Jakob or another controller (whoever dosed Kanti?) or maybe just the Clouds/Perfume having a will of its own pushing to make certain things happen...

May not be connected, but does it strike anyone else as odd that this is basically an inversion of how Kanti’s dream went, with Erin as the wife and Miriam as the freeuse slut/girlfriend?

(I should probably eventually just bite the bullet and start reading from issue 1.)

There's no need to do anything that drastic - Miriam doesn't appear until page 84...

I'll just add that obviously Miriam is a Hebrew name (it may or may not be worth checking the meanings and origins). Pearl fell out with her mother, Jacqui, and the name change apparently occurred subsequent to that. The man she believed to be her biological father, Ezra, is Jewish. She's doing Jewish Studies at Wilmot.

It may or may not be relevant that she was still Pearl when Jacqui was with Q. Q doesn't appear to be aware of her name change. Q was involved with Yves and Sawyer back then in the first wave of Pink Clouds activity. (Miriam makes her first appearance immediately after Laura becomes the first woman to inhale the new Pink Clouds - so maybe start on page 83.) Possibly Yves and/or Sawyer are unaware of her change of name too. Or maybe Jacqui's somehow driving the dream narrative now and she wants Pearl back as Pearl. Or maybe all of this plan - if it is a plan - pre-dates her change of name.

Is there eventually going to be a proper comic on the site with Zen’s artwork?

It is devoutly to be wished!

Yes.  Indeed it is.