UPDATE INFO: Whooo boy... This one REALLY needed a lot of fixing. Kib and Sapphire's faces and heads were just really bizarre on this page, especially on panel 5. Of all the pages, I think this one was the most necessary to fix.

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Concept, story, sketch, and lineart: Ryusuta
Coloring, shading, and effects by  Solarknight99

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So, a quick note on this in terms of Pathfinder rules - Sapphire is indeed attempting to cure Kib's curse by using her Channel Energy ability (which is a standard ability for Clerics in Pathfinder). Normally, this ability isn't used to cure status ailments such as curses, but because Sapphire is of the Merciful Healer archetype, she essentially has the power of a Paladin's Lay On Hands/Mercy ability and is strong enough to grant a mercy which removes curses.

One small liberty I took with the rules is that normally Sapphire wouldn't be able to tell if a curse was there simply by attempting to remove it. By their nature, curses on Pathfinder are particularly insidious and difficult to detect in the core rules, but for the purposes of saving a lot of song and dance in the actual comic and pointless trial-and-error searching, we're saying that Sapphire is able to tell that Kib was not being afflicted by a curse.

I'll save you guys a concern right now and say that although Sapphire was... let's say "interested" in this turn of events, she would never lie to her friends; she really did try her best to remove Kib's curse; it just turned out there legitimately was no curse on Kib to begin with.

Big ups to Sol for this latest coloring. I did the lighting effects on the first two panels simply because I had a very specific thing I wanted for them and it would have taken longer to explain that particular way. XD

Just about everything else in terms of coloring was Sol's work, though. Give him a big hand!