For a long time I have considered the Escaflowne section of my gallery closed. I figured that I had a nice enough sample of the main characters, and that any more would be repetitive. Still, when I saw this cel up for auction, I kept coming back to it. I was going to let it go when I happened to stop by Mandarake a couple of minutes after the auction was scheduled to close. It turned out that there was a few extra minutes left in the auction due to an extension. I saw this as a sign that he was waiting for me and threw in a bid.