[EP] When Real World and Comics Collide - Open

[st_oryboard]

Mack caught about ten hours of sleep total since his arrival. Unlike others that had arrived, his was due to excitement. Yes, he missed his grandfather and his friends. But the Changer world wasn't in a war any longer and he viewed this as a vacation. Besides SERIOUSLY, he got the best welcome to a weird place gift ever. No, not the toothbrush and other stuff (no offense Caroline) but what was in his egg.

He'd been given a Clip Studio EX software and a Graphic Drawing Tablet, PLUS pens and colored pencils. Mack didn't waste any time in setting up the software and trying to figure out how it worked. His first couple of attempts weren't the best, but then his character began to look like it did on the paper and he was satisfied. He stuffed everything that had been in his egg, plus he own graphic novels, comic and notepad into his backpack and headed down toward the cafe.

There was plenty of room on the table at a booth to spread out all his stuff. It wasn't busy so he didn't feel guilty about doing it. Soon he was lost in trying to transfer his comic to the tablet and thinking of new adventures of a Kitsune stuck in another world. SO TOTALLY COOL!

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[st_recuerdame]

"Nope, it's just me and Dante. It's round though." Which he thought was awesome! He'd also heard of others having ghostly roommates and Miguel had been a little disappointed that he hadn't.

"Is your ghost roommate nice?"

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Since Miguel asked the question, Mack assumed he wasn't the only one with one. "He's actually pretty neat." Then he confessed, "I was freaked at first, I didn't sleep in my room the first night. But the last two nights, I have. Now it's kind of comforting. I've never been on my own."

[st_recuerdame]

"That's okay. I really freaked when I saw my first ancestor as a skeleton. Then it just was normal." Well it helped that everyone was skeletons except him when he crossed the marigold bridge.

[st_oryboard]

"Woah, you saw your ancestors as skeletons?! That would be both cool and freaky." There were so many ideas for a comic for Miguel that they were kind of tripping over each other.

[st_recuerdame]

"It was." Miguel nodded. "Dia De Los Muertos is all about skeletons. I didn't think they really were like that, but it made it a lot easier to not be as freaked out."

To be honest, he was more freaked that he'd gone invisible and could actually go to the Land of the Dead.

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"That is really cool." Mack said again, because it was. "Uh, what do you think about making a comic of your time there? With Dante turning into the spirit animal and then another comic with you guys after that with your adventures in the Land of the Living?"

[st_recuerdame]

His life as a comic? His real life? That was AWESOME.

"Really? I would like that a lot." He couldn't do anything in return for Mack's generosity and he felt bad. Miguel would keep his ears and eyes open. If he saw something that Mack could use or needed, he would do it.

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Mack liked all the creativity vibe that he was getting at the Inn. It was only a few days, but already it was a fun adventure. Unlike the life and death ones, he'd been on lately.

"Great, we can work on it together." He smiled at his new friend.