As I go through and begin to draw, I find that there are more of them still around than I originally suspected. They're just different...harder to recognize. And grandly reduced in number. Zade...Kent...Oakley...Poi...Different yet present. The aesthetics of some are too hard to escape to let them remain. As much as I loved Roko and Token...my darling boys! Laramie!!! A lionfish merman? How lamentable it is to me now that I didn't spend more time when they were still alive and present in my mind!

They're just gone though. Or so deeply different that it's taking me a long time to realize that it's still them.

Gah...

what machines we must be.