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Yes! I knew it was THE FORT, and Jaegar was the one! Is that “Jaygarr” or “Yaygarr”? It’s pronounced differently in Japanese.

Anyways, Chapter 16! (Gotta do this quick because I’m going to bed.)

 Dude, I totally get going somewhere expecting the only person you know there to be there and they don’t come, and then some other obstacle goes WHAZAM! in your face! A.K.A. On the first day of school, me expecting one of my besties, Ruby*, to be there and she was sick. I just… totally resonated with that entire first page and a half. I really like Dmitri as a character. Realistic and cool, with humor, but not young enough to be twelve years old. 

Declan being that way is so… wow. There was actually a guy loitering around just like that, one of my classmates, and I can imagine almost the exact posture Declan had… Gord definitely knew children. Knows children. It’s not possible for an outsider to write an eighth-grader that well!

I like how Coral Reef is capable of being realistic. Yeah, he’s been letting the fact he doesn’t want to face the can of worms named Theo for a while, but he does admit that they do need to work together to fix this nonsense. And the Disneyworld memory was a good memory to show that Theo really doesn’t have all that much to lose, compared to Reef. They’re pretty good parallels. Opposites attract (friendships), I guess?

The birthday thing is great! That’s an awesome detail. Some threads and theories were beginning to form in my head thanks to that detail. This is getting cooler!

Be blessed,
Jade