Spoilers And Meta For The Wizard, The Witch And The Wild One Ep12, Prisoner's Dilemma

Spoilers and meta for The Wizard, the Witch and the Wild One ep12, Prisoner's Dilemma

There are two obvious ways to create drama from the starting point of a mentor character saying "just wait a little longer, I'm coming to fix everything":

The main characters refuse to wait and pop off without the mentor – they have to solve the problem without the mentor's help, and the mentor will be mad when they arrive! DRAMA!

The main characters dutifully wait, but the mentor never arrives – waylaid or even killed en route. The main characters have to face something that took out the mentor! DRAMA!

Which is not to say those are the only possible outcomes, but is to say that, as soon as Steel started reassuring the gang that she'd handle everything – free Naram, punish Morrow, help Ame with the curse, train Eursulon in the sword, especially help Eursulon with the sword – I got a lil jolt of The Fear. (one fear) There's no way they get the deus ex machina easy win on all those points, I thought. Something has to happen to Steel instead.

Which is also to say that Steel isn't allowed to be mad at Eursulon for popping off, because from a metanarrative standpoint he might have saved her life by doing that.

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