I don't usually show thumbs before pages, but I think there's some benefit in being noisy about these. I want people to realize I'm redoing earlier parts of the comic so they'll go back and look for story seeds that weren't there before.
And I have so few girl OCs. Let Belz have big lady spotlight.

I'm really picky about keeping Jacky's losable animal vibe and wanted to change how she's captured without adding too many new pages.
I also couldn't do something that would change her world view (make her even MORE suspicious and distrustful of people), because I need her to accept Herman. I had to think up a way to disarm her that is:
- believable to me
- not an overt betrayal
- will not make her suspicious of the wrong body types
- is relatable enough viewers won't think less of her ability to fend for herself for falling for it
- is something she understands to be her own fuck up

So I just had Belz grab her head a lot and made some allusions to her spending lots of time in the forest, and Belz having reason to show up there.
She's got reasons to worry about wildlife but not anyone plotting against her. When her captor grabs her head, she was already expecting it to be someone she knows.
Seeding some other stuff too.