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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 1659802" data-attributes="member: 1025">Yah. What everybody else said. These stories were both incredible, and it's going to be a very tough call--matter of personal preference, or --I dunno--hair breadths' points for proofreading? You both did a pretty good job on that account too, but I'll bet I could nitpick one or two in each, if I had to make this call. I'm so glad I don't have to!  I do find it interesting that both of you found such guilt and betrayal in the woman and child. This is part of a series of pictures that have come to me without telling me their stories. I know they're all part of a set, but I don't know what they're for. Seeing them through your eyes helps me get closer to undertanding them. I keep hoping at some point I'll know how to string them together. But the picture is certainly a lot more powerful to me now, because I don't think I ever looked at it from that angle before. From the POV of the man looking at them--now that you have both seen it, I know there is a third person in the picture, even if he's not in the picture. The viewer--it's not an anonymous third person omniscient anymore. He's involved. As I think Eeralai might understand, I always saw the picture from standing inside it--the woman's or the child's point of view--I didn't know what they were looking at, only how they were feeling about it. I think you both captured that, but you added another element too, and echoed each other enough to convince me that it is worth drawing some more about this. I feel well paid for my participation in this round by these two stories. Anything that makes me want to draw more is a gift.</blockquote>

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