King of Swords 10-170
Intra took the stone, and his terribly damaged sword, and began to set to work by the side of the fire. Using the edge of the sword, he slowly chipped at the rock, flattening its shape. As the rock was of a reasonably large size, this took quite some time.
Once he was satisfied with his tool, he took off his kafeyen and traveling cape, so he was clad only in his underclothes, then found a good spot in the barren and muddy town square and began to dig.
Even the people in the square who had filtered in to see the Sword Saint and had some hope he might yet prove their savior felt their resolve sag at the sight of his starved body, laboring and sweating as he toiled in the muck and filth. The cruel master of the vale laughed and had a tent set up to shade him as he watched Intra’s struggles. “If you are done with your farce, I will happily geld you and make you my jester, lord Intra,” said he. Intra said nothing, but kept digging, only emerging to feed his fire. As the day dragged on and his fire burned to coals, he had quite a sizable amount of clay, which piece by piece he molded into bricks and let dry by the light of the sun and the heat of the fire.”Behold the earth,” said Intra.
As the sun began to creep lower towards the horizon, his craft quickly became apparent. Exhausted, and muscles quivering, he emerged from his hole and began to stack his bricks into a sturdily made bread oven. Then he asked for a vessel, and went down into his pit, emerging with it filled to the brim with muddy water, as he had dug deep enough to coax it from the dry earth.
“Behold the water,” said Intra, and set it to boil clean over the fire. He began to shovel coals into the oven, to prepare it and set it.
At this sight, more people began to gather at the square. They could sense that something was afoot. Yem Yeddo would have beaten them back into their homes, but he too was transfixed by the strange spectacle that was unfolding.
“Clever,” said Yem Yeddo, with the slightest tinge of anxiety in his voice, as all tyrants are wont to have when confronted with an honest man. “Do you mean to bake bread for the people? That will not work despite your powers of transfiguration, as I have all the grain.” His thugs, like the loyal dogs they were, sensed their master’s discomfort, and gripped the hilts of their weapons.
“I tire of this,” said Yem Yeddo, without realizing the gravity of his own situation. “Break his limbs.”
“Next,” said Intra, “I will turn this rock into air.”
Saw everything indeed.
Happy ending? But not quite what I was looking for. Maybe that is on me, who knows.
There are two expressions of what English is-
“English was a language invented by Norman men-at-arms to seduce Saxon barmaids.”
“English doesn’t so much borrow words and structures from other languages, as much as it lures other languages into dark alleys to be beaten up and their pockets rummaged for loose nouns and grammar.
One doesn’t find new heights of power on well-worn paths. Human vitality sustaining the raw power of devils is a known avenue, and White Chain just demonstrated what the prowess of an angel can do when complemented by human ingenuity. It’s not unreasonable to guess that a similar synergy might exist when a devil’s instincts wield an angel’s techniques.
Now we know that the language of Throne doesn’t have the voiced velar nasal /ŋ/ as a phoneme, because Cio makes a pronounced (!) efford to seperate the string /ŋɡ/ of /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/ into /ng/, visually indicated by the hyphens.
That, or it’s a joke using the non-standard pronounciation of as /ˈɪŋɡəlɪʃ/ as part of her demon speech pattern.
Good point, Linguist. What is more mysterious is that Cio cannae arse herself to learn English, but her name (presumably chosen by someone else) is Coca Cola written as individual letters pronunced in the dread language itself!
Her name was chosen (I speculate) by a Vatra familiar with Earth at the command of her husband who wanted to influence his wife’s character. If Cio knew what it meant — I presume that Allison hasn’t told her — there would be one fewer Vatra in the world.
now thats a veritabke fleet right there, I say.
As someone that has majored in English, I can confirm. It’s a fascinating language, but gods help the poor soul trying to learn it. It’s a mess of contradictions, polite falsehoods, looted grammar, nonsense slang, and all of that slung haphazard over a Frankensteinien mess made by stitching several older languages together.
To put it politely, it is, in fact, a bastard.
Nice! Time to see if Zain still is, as he was described much earlier, a creep.
I think that was retconned actually.
Rock into air?
Turning a solid to a gas suddenly while skipping a liquid state is called sublimation in chemistry. It’s what happens a to solid explosives.
Intra wasn’t wrong, it can be done. The more familiar tale is stone soup, something I’ve had running in the back of my mind for the last few days.
I could sell wool to a sheep but I’m hungry and all I have is this random rock I found outside of your garden, would you let me in? I’m not the best company but I do make things a bit more interesting. Promise I won’t stay here long.
So that’s the end then, Alison gets reunited with her one nigh stand boyfriend after creating a harem of demons in the other world, shes just so happy to see him right, she forgets all of the adventures shes had? That’s the story *spits* pathetic.
I want square angel in the team so bad ; w;
we’ve been everywhere and this isn’t a movie, we’ve spent 5 books to arrive on act 2 with a little a cheese on it. This is Allison’s journey and even if it’s only half way through your going to have to convince that the rest isn’t just cheese pastrami in a world you designed where that literally never happens.
Bud, we’ve had five, maybe six pages of the 539 in which things seem like maybe they’re not a terrible crapsack world.
Let the story breathe, dang it. If there’s no moments of hope then there’s no sense of stakes when things get worse. Do you seriously think that the inevitable conflicts with Gog Agog, Jagganoth and the concordance of angels are going to be sappy and without brutal conflict?
Jesus, have you never even *read* a comic before? Did you think Watchmen was going to get sappy when Nite Owl and Silk Spectre had a few happy pages together? When Spider Jerusalem stopped the police from destroying Angels 8 in Transmetropolitan, were you worried that the rest of the comic would be happy endings from there on out?
I hope you didn’t because only an idiot would think those things. And yet here you are, worried that one of the darkest, most fatalistic comics on the internet will suddenly become super cheesy happy just because a good thing happened after 530 pages of relentless, brutal struggle.
alls I’m sayings is the name of the comic book is kill six billion demons
And now that they’ve rescued the person prophesied to have that name, who the angels themselves intend to use to slay the demiurges and resurrect god, you believe the most likely result is a comic full to the brim of peace and happy endings?
Allison got the key not that random wanna be who got thrown into oblivion for being the “not quite chosen one” I don’t have any idea how this will go but that dude is just some random dude as far as I am concerned. There was brief hint earlier he might have actually learned something, but then again that probably wasn’t him.
Huh… Cio says she doesn’t speak it. She DIDN’T say she doesn’t understand it.
As somebody with an English degree, few things make me happier than somebody rightly dunking on the English language. And here I thought I couldn’t love this comic more.
I have supped on this offering for many days.
Now here, at the end of time, I sup on patience.
It is a humble meal.
Intra is a bad ass
10 Vigilant Gaze be like “I SPY A TOL! MUST INTRODUCE!”
Wow. That might be the purest, most happy smile I’ve ever seen – and that’s saying A LOT after the beautiful smiles we got from White Chain lately!
I like the idea that she’s this happy to hear her a few familiar words from Earth in this unfamiliar world she’s lived in for over a year. From the person she’s been very worried for all of this time.
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