Hellooww~
I finally am through with my (scribbly scrunkly) layout sketches for the next chapter(s).
Reuben POV in downloads below: TAPE 8, Tape 9, Tape 10 [CW: domestic (child) abuse]
This is "BEHIND THE SCENES" material, so if you don't wanna look at it, you will not miss anything, as I will make these real pages later on. [[Everything is still subject to deviate from this draft]]
As the sketches are very rough, some handwritten texts are just impossible to read. But re-lettering for the storyboard is too much work, and the next step will already be the real (shortened?) lettering for the final pages. This is just a decipher-spoiler offer for the curious :3
The 1 planned Reuben POV chapter became 3 chapters, because his flashback was just so long.
After trying to condense my first draft, I was at least able to cut out 28 of 262 pages and reduce them to 234. Mostly just filler panels/dialogue here and there and scenes that did not have much purpose.
Also, I cut out some graphic violence and left a bit more to the imagination. Overall I think that made it better. A few panels or scenes that are more noticeably missing are collected in the "deleted scenes" file, attached below.