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Panel 1: Tataru, Urianger, and Estinien are standing together glumly. Also, this is the only panel where I remembered to draw the feather in Tataru’s beret.
Estinien: That makes six hands in a row Y’shtola has won...
Urianger: Verily, her fortune doth rival the Spinner's own.
Panel 2: Tataru holds her finger up in the air knowingly.
Tataru: I have a theory. I’m going to do something weird, so don’t say anything, okay?
Panel 3: They’re all sitting at a mahjong table with Y’shtola. Y’shtola is East; Tataru is West.
Text: East 1 - Honba 7
Text pointing at Y’shtola: Back from a food break
Panel 4: Y’shtola discards a tile.
Tataru: Hey, Y’shtola...
Panel 5: Tataru smiles, hands folded in front of herself. Her hand is facing outward, toward the viewer (and toward Y’shtola).
Tataru: Aren’t you going to say anything?
Panel 6: Close-up of Tataru's hand.
Y’shtola: About what?
Y’shtola: Wait a second—
A zoom-in on part of Tataru's hand, featuring the 1-sou (stylized as a Cactuar) and the 7-pin. Both tiles are asymmetric. Above them, their mirror images are drawn and labeled “How they normally look from her POV”
Panel 7: Y’shtola looks visibly nervous.
Tataru: I KNEW IT!!
Panel 8: Shot of all the characters at the table. Estinien is frowning. Urianger looks shocked.
Tataru: Here we all assumed the tiles were opaque to you, but really you could see the ink’s aether through the back!
Urianger: Y’shtola, how couldst thou...
Y’shtola: I have no other way of seeing the tiles to begin with! What would you have me do?!
Also, it’s hard to see but Urianger is tenpai for Thirteen Orphans, so this hand would have been a draw anyway.
Panel 9:
Text: And so...
Tataru discards a North Wind tile.
Tataru: North Wind!
Y’shtola reaches across the table to touch it. She’s now wearing a blindfold, and she’s West, while Tataru is East, meaning she finally lost at least one hand.
Y’shtola: So it is.
Text pointing at Y’shtola: No aethersight (honor system)
Text pointing at the blindfold: Just for show
Text: ...Tataru commissioned a Braille mahjong set.
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