Even then, it had been long enough since I had taken any Latin to need to borrow someone's book to write the first panel, and I'm not entirely positive that the grammar is right. As Bill Watterson, acclaimed ex-cartoonist of Calvin and Hobbes, said in one of his books, "to a [newspaper] editor, space may be money, but to a cartoonist, space is time. Space provides the tempo and rhythm of the strip. Used well, it directs the eye to speed up or linger." I think I used space pretty effectively here, in the last two pannels: Cumina had only enough time to hear Shadow and state her brief confusion before the massive explosion. I unfortunately don't have much leeway to do something like this in the usual Pyres now, due to my typically doing a daily size. But who knows, I might come up with something.