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Horse Age is a graphic novel about prehistoric horses living and surviving in semi-real pleistocene era, also known as the Ice age.
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Wheee, we have 30 pages, guys! And finally another page after so many weeks. The chaos in life and chaos of many various horses of the herd in the panels were slowing me down, I am so sorry... ^^"
Majiva is slowly but surely going into realisation that her daughter is gone forever. Same as Siatra's best friend Lorko.
Most of mares from herd seems to be very emotionless about the situation but no wonder when in real nature mares ussually care only about their own lives and lives of their own foals. Also losing foals to karza or other reasons is nothing new for them. They just try to make Majiva to get over it faster. The herd needs and will move on.
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Wow. So realistic it's heart breaking. Good work author!
That and Siatra was a smart filly so she would've remembered being told to stay near mother.
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;v; Thank you kindly! I am glad you appreciate!
Siatra knew to stay near mother but she was too curious she oftern wandered too far from mother (as well as the other foals). Unfortunatelly she was not fast enough to get back to her in time :/
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^^" yes...
I am glad the page gives the feels to you ^^
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I understand this is already an older post but I just have to say I am in love with your story telling. Not only is this scene of loss incredibly hard to read (been tearing up the whole damn time), I love how you represented the danger of predators and "death" in the comic. I can easily imagine these animals and their beliefs. Wonderful work.
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Awww it makes me more than happy to hear this
I am happy you like my comic so far! Thank you so much! :3
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Woooow, so sad. I never expected her to go so fast. Plus being the only girl and favorite of the great ru? But i like the forbonding of the Mom always wandering from her. It made her daughter have to be smarter but in the end the herd and staying together keeps them safe...wow.
The mother is truly learning a harsh lesson. And i like that no one is getting over this quickly either. This is the first most cataclysmicly dark event. And it shows.
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Yes, you recapitulated it right ^^
Thinks doesn't go as many of them expected.
It is, and it's important event for the future of the comic story ^^
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No, they don't, they just say their racional points of view of this situation
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Great job expressing denial in the mother as she slowly starts to realize what's happening.
Kind of sucks she doesn't want to believe her foal is gone and it's a lot clearer now that it's rlly sinking in, like you can actually see how messed up the situation is but also true.
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Is it understandable enough? Wow thank you ^^
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I swear your goal for this comic is to torture your characters. D;
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I hope not ^^ Everything here happens for some reason. Siatra didn't die just for a sake of drama. She plays a big role for the story ^^
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You saying she's a.... MAREtyr? ;D Eh? Eh?
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The what? o.o Dunno what does it mean.
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I'm making a horrible pun based on twisting a word. xD
The original word is martyr and there are several meanings surrounding it, all have in common one person dying for a cause.
In this case, you killing Siatra has a cause, making her a martyr...
Or maretyr, as my horrible and bad joke goes. xD
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Yayyy~! I have been checking and checking, i sisnt want to miss the return! Congrats on the move btw, i know it's a pain!
Poor Lorko (Larko?) and i feel sorry for the mother too, i hope another mare may take some pity in her and lend some wisdom and condolences.
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Aww I am so sorry for the long wait, I appreciate you didn't give up on reading this story ;w;
Yes, the little colt is Lorko ^^
Exactly :/ We'll see on next pages ^^
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Just.. your comic is so good and its so pretty ;-;
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Awwww that's lovely to hear you like it! Thank you so much!
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Poor Majiva.... but life goes on and she still has to survive the winter - doesn't have the luxury of mourning. She will do better next time.
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Yeah, exactly 
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That's the harsh life in the wilderness. Honestly, if Majiva had to choose between keeping herself or Siatra alive, she would choose herself. She can have a foal next year, but Siatra wouldn't survive without a mother (if she would still depend on her mother). This totally can be observed in the wild: mothers eat first usually, they need the food to keep themselves alive, because if they are alive they can defend their cubs/foals/pups or produce more cubs/foals/pups in the future. If they let the offspring eat and then something happens with the mother because of the lack of food, well then the offspring is doomed as well.
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That's true in most cases - Elephants, however, are one of the only cases I can think of them choosing the health of their calves over themselves. Every mammal and some birds share the same emotional complexity as a human. But in the case like elephants where their emotions are more pronounced due to their heightened sense of empathy, it's a little different. It might also be because an elephant usually only has one calf at a time and it takes twenty-two months to give birth. So I think that species that prioritize offspring over themselves are more connected to their emotions than others - at least to the point where grief overrides instinct. There are multiple cases of deer, elephants, and even apes who have starved to death due to the grief they feel over losing their young.
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Animals are so fascinating and they can always surprise scientists 
I don't say Majiva is like just "Ok, more luck for next time", I just say she must and probably will move on, but I don't think she will ever forget her first foal or stop feeling guilty for her mistake, thinking the herd will help her out.
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Ooh! I'm so glad to see you making progress on this! Nice story and very pretty art!
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;w; Thank you so much! I am happy you like my comic!
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It has been two months since you posted the previous comic page and finally, you posted another page, but I don't blame you for the delay since I know you were moving to a different country and had other kinds of complications.
I think Majiva's an incompetent mother considering that she didn't see Siatra getting caught by predators even when she told her to get close to her.
I would imagine that the protagonist character, who was the only one in the herd to see the kitties feasting upon Siatra's carcass, would hasitate to tell Lorko about what happened to the filly and I'm more concerned about the relationship between the two colts in the future than about Majiva having to accept the loss of her daughter.
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Yeah ^^" it was chaotic month and chaotic page to be done.
It was also chaotic for Majiva to orientate who is where when she was near karza too. She saw Siatra turning to the left with the brown mare and that was the last time she got a glimpse of her until she was hidden in between herd. And so she says she thought the is still there, not that she was chased away from the herd by the kitty and killed afterwards :/
Yeah, there will be this topic in the future in their bachelor herd formation ^^
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I wasn't just talking about when the colts will be in a bachelor herd in the future, I was also talking about their mutual relationship during the rest of the time they're in Tiris' herd until they get kicked out.
And what did you mean by "she thought the is still there"?
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There won't be more about the situation in herd, next chapter is comming and with this there is a big time jump into the future when all of those colts are leaving the herd ^^
Ah, I misspelled "She (Majiva) thought she (Siatra) is still there (in between other horses of the herd)" ^^
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Ouch...
I mean, they're not wrong, but they're certainly not pulling any punches. The grief must be hard enough for Siatra's mom to deal with right now.
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Yeah ^^"" older mares are over these too painful emotions and they try to make Majiva to do the same. Animals DO have a feeling of a loss and sadness. But nature keeps kicking them forward so they cannot moarn forever and keep trying to survive and multiply :/
I've seen several videos from nature where mother lost her litter to a predator. She tried to defend it as long as she could but when she saw it's no use she was just standing there sad, looking at it and accepting the defeat, then leaving back to her group. From this I made these old mares to be like that towards Majiva, advicing her to just accept it, learn from it and move on. They don't mean bad, they just mean nature ^^
Beside all of this, yes, you are right, for Majiva it's a first experience and she definitelly doesn't feel so okay about it like the older ones :/
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They called her out on this, it's good to rely on others for help but... You can't expect them to do your job for you. I'm glad most of the herd recognizes this already, I'm excited to see where the story will go from here after this happened.
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Exactly ^^ Older and more experienced mares are used to get over such things so they try to make Majiva to do the same. But of course, Majiva see it much differently as it's her first experience :/
I hope you will enjoy the comic in future too!
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Yesssss!!!! Been eagerly awaiting the return of the comic
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;w; My appologises to update so late ... I am glad you still like this comic!
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