I love the Sirrae story - but some of the text on this one was so dark as to be unreadable...

Yeah admittedly I really don't like the way the text in the last few pages turned out. Sorry bout that.

The downscaling doesn't help either...

I see the point was already raised, aye I too really like the story and you are doing pretty good on the images (though some of them also getting a tad to darkish). Saphhires dark blue text was already hard to read, but the purple from Vex and the GuildMaster are virtually unreadable. Hope you can fix that for the next episodes.
That said, thanks for creating this story in the first place. ^^

Oh and I'm wondering if this might be just another trap for our heroine to stumble into ... if so hopefully Vex and Sapphire can help her out of that one. ^^