(a small hand appears through the doorway with a torch)
Jen: Leslie! Are you all right?
Leslie: Jen?! What are you doing here? And why do you have a sword?
Jen: Ummmmm… I’m here to rescue you! And it’s a rapier, ’cause I actually know how to use one sorta! And no Saxophone Alex jokes!
Chibi Saxophone Alex: Bwahaha
…No, Chibi Saxophone Alex is not actually there. But he would probably make an inappropriate comment at this point, so I drew him in because I felt like it. Oh, and hey, it’s me! I’m not sure what you folks will think of self-insertion. But as long as you consider me just as another character, I don’t think you’ll be bothered. More will become clear next page.
I was doing the colouring late last night and I really nearly messed up on the backgrounds.
EDIT: It’s totally not a rapier. It’s a combat foil or something. Like, it has a sharp pokey tip, but it doesn’t have the stiffness etc. of a real rapier. I know this now.