A double-dose of delirious Katie! The artwork in both chapters looks wonderful, too! Powder blue is an ideal choice for the webbing... so soft, yet packed with so much lethal potential! Katie is most convincingly glued to this net after her hair-raising plunge, little ropelets of adhesiveness tugging at her but not fixing her inextricably in place! The spider horror (whole and in parts!) is as neat an arachnid design as ever I've seen in fantasy fiction! Not so outlandishly vast to be unbelievable, but plenty big enough to genuinely threaten Katie! It seems an actual, credible animal! Colors are well chosen: those yellow leg-segment separations are ripe with banded venomousness! The rearing fangs in Chapter 6/panel 1 are blood-curdling! Katie is clearly near the end of her rope! The tangle of multiple red pupiless eyes lends the creature the merciless alien quality so fearsome in spiders! And its plummeting carcass, with that ropey trail of intestines, could hardly seem more savaged... a fitting end to this squirm-inducing evil! As for the cocooned, wriggling Hayley: that's where you've really outdone yourself, CT! Totally believable as a web-wrapped victim... one can easily follow the individual strands of silk as they entwine her or are torn away! So form-fittingly comfortable and clingingly suffocating at once! Hayley's exhausted, gasping-for-breath expression is well-drawn eloquence of her trials and luxurious discomfort! In every way, these fine pages so exceed my expectations; beautiful extrapolations of my raw verbiage into finished, polished perfection! Thanks so much! You've done everything I'd hoped for, and so much more!
Nice surprise save. It was nice to see two parts at once. I am enjoying the fast pace of this adventure.
Thanks so much for your further generous commentary, Leenotler! I too was most pleased to see this two-part addition to the series (then, I come from an era where Saturday double-bills were the norm! XD) And it's so gratifying to read your compliments about the story's pace! Playing with pacing is something I truly enjoy... a welcome treat indeed to have this aspect recognized!
I always liked the "dangerous tickle". It emphasizes the uncontrollable, helpless effects of real tickling, though Katie's not too helpless to save her own life!
Again, my profound thanks! The
Tomb Raider template calls for a certain measure of peril... the application of that to the fetish element is a natural extension, one which CT's art capitalizes upon with such delightful intimacy! Katie's wonderfully overwrought expressions of terror and pestered hilarity during the spider tussle... they sell the idea so marvelously well!
I loved the "sensitivity test". Gratuitous tickling at it's best, revealing a surprise reunion.
Gratuitousness always appeals to me when fetish material is called for (especially in situations where it doesn't easily fit!) I'm very pleased you enjoyed the sensitivity test! I know that doctors really do employ such methods to check reflexes and for spinal damage... this seemed a reasonable further application! If Hayley has to suffer slightly for her salvation... well, them's the breaks, Hayley!
And for your constant, unselfish generosity as well, Lee! This joint venture with CT has proved so rewarding in so many ways... it's such a satisfaction to know that others have enjoyed the fruits of our labor too!
