Something warm and fuzzy happened while I was drawing that last panel. I was drawing Cody at the time. Casper had already been drawn to the side, and Wendy would be coming up next, and I just felt how comfortable these characters were around each other. It was surreal. I know they’re really only lines on a piece of paper and all that, but… as I said, it was a warm, fuzzy little feeling.
Also, I’m sure we’ve all had days when we were SO GLAD we went to school that day. Often it was because a bird had flown into the classroom. Those days were gold!
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The one day I remember best was when a bat got stuck in our classroom when I was in Grade 4 I think (mighta been Grade 5). I remember laughing so hard watching my teacher shrieking and the principal chasing the poor thing with a flyswatter and his jacket.
If Wendy really wants to go to school, Casper just has to take the rock with him!
Actually, not even that. She’s close enough to the school to visit on her own. The rock is more her silicate school bus.
And congratulations to Tekara for the 500th comment! You win an imaginary trophy filled with lollyroos!
Somehow I always imagined the cemetery fence as being some sort of limiting line, and that was why we didn’t see Wendy pop up more at school, except for the rock or when she was piggybacking.
Now I’m starting to wonder exactly how far Wendy could wander from her gravesite without the rock. Would it be fair to ask in terms of metres, or would Wendy not be familiar with those? :P
I’d say somewhere around fifty metres or so, if she’s lucky. The oval is next to the cemetery, so is the boys’ classroom (can see it from the window), and she hasn’t yet turned up much further, I wouldn’t think. So I’m guessing about a good stone’s throw or kick of the footy from the cemetery is just about her limit.
There do seem to be some exceptions, though, but I’ll keep those to myself for now.
(And no, that doesn’t completely mean ‘he hasn’t worked it out himself yet’!)
Even if it did that’d be okay, but it’s also good to know there are plans brewing!
Personally I was happy to go happy to go back to school. Simply cause I was getting board and was missing my friends.the I lived in boonies so I didn’t see most of my friends over the holidays.