Page #24. This is the last page of first chapter! Thanks to all of you who gave me your support, and I hope you'll contunue reading. I probably will update less often, because the second chapter is not finished yet. But I promise the next chapter will be more action packed and less obscure ^__^
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Zannid for beta-reading almost all of first chapter. But if you find any grammar mistakes, tell me. I'll fix them immediately.
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NOOOOOOOOOO. :C
Plus, yay! More UM! More chances to see the cool creatures there and decipher the language of Murts.
By the way, what does UM stand for again?
UM is kinda rebus. It has different, but relevant meanings on Latin, Russian and Udmurt languages. I'll give more hints about it in the next chapter ^__^
Somehow makes sense. xD
Just don't leaveeeee!!!
Panel 1 hidden content: "I'll taste all these delicate nuances of feelings that mixed up you" This sentence is a bit confusing, because depending on your meaning there are a number of ways you could rephrase it. "I'll taste" could be changed for "I want to taste" if it's simply expressing its desire to eat the weird dress-thing, or "let me taste" would work, since it's addressing the weird dress-thing. Do the "delicate nuances" refer to the feelings themselves, or their taste? The way you have it written now it seems to refer to the feelings. "That mixed up you" seems to mean that the feelings confused the dress-thing previously. "Mixing you up" could be a good substitution, if the confusion is happening now. "I want to taste all the delicate nuances of these feelings mixed up inside you!" would be my best suggestion, but it all depends on what you want to say.
Panel 3 Tumosho bubble: "Oh, Suzer. Hello, sister!" In this case I would go with one or the other. The "oh" makes the first half of its greeting sound disappointed, or uninterested, but the exclamation mark makes it seem like it changed attitudes mid-sentence. Which may just be one of its character traits, but it still needs to be split, I believe. And I'm not positive, but I think "sister" should be capitalized, since it's being used to refer to a person.
Panel 5 Suzer bubble: "Don't you hate living in constant fear?"
Panel 5 Tumosho bubble: "I won't leave UM until I catch the Fisher Prince. I saw him up close today... a catch one can only dream of." For the first sentence "I'll" instead of "I" is a simple mistake, but your meaning in the second is a bit confusing. Did Tumosho see Marius up close? Did it feel it was close to catching him? In the second case "a catch one can only dream of" is contradictory, so I suggested a phrasing that implies Tumosho saw him, but didn't believe it could actually catch him.
Panel 5 Suzer hidden content: "Aren't you afraid to be dissolved into the gray mass? To lose your individuality?" "Don't" is short for "do not", which is a statement, rather than a question. "Aren't" is short for "are not", which wouldn't actually be correct; it would have to be phrased as "are you not afraid", except nobody talks like that anymore.
Panel 5 Tumosho hidden content: The first sentence could be changed to "he's such an amazing child", but I prefer what you already have. The second could be changed to "everlasting selflessness and endless selfishness, merged together!" Technically this is a sentence fragment, but people speak in sentence fragments all the time. I do like what you're expressing here, though. Another way of writing it would be "everlasting selflessness and endless selfishness are merged in him", but that's a little wordy and awkward.
Panel 6 Tumosho bubble: You can use "he's" instead of "he is" here, but it's not necessary. For the record, "he's" would not work in the previous panel, unless you rearranged it as I suggested. I'm not actually sure why that is, though.
I'm sorry I can't be of more help. ._.; Unfortunately I haven't taken a lot of English classes (I'm a business major), so I can't tell you exactly why some things work and some things don't, and I can't guarantee that all my suggestions are totally correct. But if I'm not sure about any of my suggestions I'll definitely tell you, and hopefully others on here can verify whether they're right or wrong.
Also: WHOO! Ulyana's okay! Sort of! I really love her character.