The first look at Ine’s immediate family: his little brother, another feather-head, named Mark. I have two younger brothers of my own. Mark represents a little of both of them. I like being a big bro. ♥ I wasn’t exactly a big kid growing up, so it felt nice to have someone else looking up to me for a change once in a while! Likewise, Ine enjoys being the bigger one, and takes advantage when he can!

Actually, this page has confused a few people over the years because I was still getting used to drawing Ine in a consistent way. His appearance in this page looks a lot older than on previous pages, especially standing next to his younger brother. This led some readers to think that Ine was the smaller one and that his brother, Mark, was the taller one… which would make him rather giant! But one way to tell Ine and Mark apart if you’re having trouble is by scales and feathers: Mark has lighter, more yellow-green colored scales and no stripes, and he also has feathers on his arms, while Ine doesn’t.

This page was originally meant to be a sort of “filler page” to separate the first chapter from the next, but after this chapter I went back to using Q&A pages to separate chapters instead. Fortunately, this page works reasonably well as a part of the chapter itself since the page before it shows Ine on his way home, and this one shows him arriving.