Just imagine... it's only going to get worse from here!

Placing my bets: Everyone in the chamber with the queen survived, though there were probably some serious injuries. 



All bets are off for anyone who was outside the chamber at that time.

RIP Chea, we hardly knew ye

The fact that we didn't even get a reaction of Toma here but instead science lady makes me think that the important characters are still alive.



But fuck if I'm not nervous til we get confirmation either way.

Despite this world having magic, I feel like we haven't seen countermeasures that can resist what is essentially a small airplane filled with explosives being smashed into you. Like, you look at the security on the Queen-sister it wasn't a lot. Like our own world, the ability to create destruction vastly outstrips our ability to protect against it; it's why diplomacy and "paper" power is as necessary in our world as it is theirs. Under normal circumstances the Queen would have had numerous constructs that could shoot anything out of the sky preventing this very situation from happening but those constructs for the most part have been shredded.



The biggest thing we've seen "blocked" was Ricker and his wight blocking the shrine explosion. It seems like this was far worse. Uaid contained the nuke within himself but that's not a common situation.



The Engineer, more specifically, the Engineer entrusted to a secret weapons project, passing judgement on what's happened here probably verifies that the Queen is likely dead. Because she more than just about anybody else we've seen in the story understands what can or cannot be achieved in terms of protection and she has absolutely no lack of certainty that the Queen is paste. That's a lot of kinetic energy that was dropped on them.

This is fascinating but so genuinely hard to parse a few of the panels. Wish I had the money to throw at Ashley every month.

Agreed. For now they're definitely safe. I also don't think characters integral to the plot will have died unglamorously off screen, with threads left hanging. Ashley has no qualms about killing, but she lets the characters have some type of closure and makes the deaths satisfying before she does it.

>science lady

Who the fuck is "science lady"? That is science bitch.

What if we were wrong about what they want FRED for...

The engineer doesn't have a clean line of sight to there and she's going to worry no matter what seeing explosions come from that area.

What's her real name again? Did we ever get told? Or is it just Erm now and forever because that became a fanon name?

She has a name, but noone cares. She is forever Erm the science bitch.

Well yeah, but do we know it?

Yes.

>doesn't have a clean line of sight

She does?
