Seeker of Thrones 5-49
“Seeing his three wives draw ever closer and that his first plot to foil them had failed miserably, Prince Kassardis doubled his pace. Knowing he would never outrun the cruel Vastoki on open ground, he hurled himself into a sea of dead grass, and used up all his water trying to escape her grasp. A night and a day later, he emerged on the shores of the river Dal, and spent the last of his money hiring a fisherman to take him downriver.
The fisherman’s boat overturned in the town of Kol Varas, and there Kassardis did a very shameful thing. He sold to the first rich man he could find his fine silk headwrap, and his father’s silver dagger, and his waistcoat lined with sparrow feathers, which were marks of his lineage. With his sack of foreign coin he hired six strong men, belligerent knights from the wars of conquest, and hid himself in a wheelbarrow, hoping against hope that his ploy would be enough.
Vastoki arrived in the dusty town not hours later, and she was almost immediately set upon by the mercenaries that Kassardis had hired. From his hiding place, the young prince watched as Vastoki was caught in their ambush and fought desperately against stave and sword.
Vastoki was very fast, but also very slight, and no match against the six knights in close combat. Though beaten, she merely retreated to lick her wounds and set camp outside of town. One of the knights nearly lost his head to her long rifle when he ventured out to confront her, and that was that for a while.
As night fell, the knights returned to Kassardis. “Where wandereth thee, young one?” they said in their foreign dialects.
“To the land of Samura, where I may find peace and an escape from violence,” said the exhausted Kassardis, from his hiding place.
“Violence is inescapable,” guffawed the mercenaries, and robbed Kassardis of everything remaining that he owned, for they had seen he was a fool from the start. They threw him naked and beaten into the street, and spent their winnings on drink.
Kassardis, his swollen eyes full of tears and knowing his time was short, stole a woman’s garb from a washing line and a small hunk of bread and fled into the desert, the final words of the Very Wise Frog echoing in his ears.
The belligerent knights, for their part, died not hours later when they were squashed into a pulp by Littari’s iron cauldron. ”
– Tales of the Silver Prince
Here’s an interesting question: Incubus is talking with and interacting with Allison in pretty much the same way that Koss did back at the Murder Tree. I’m not sure there’s much difference between Incubus’s manipulations and Koss’s, except perhaps as a matter of degree.
The difference, I suspect, is that Zoss seeks a Successor, while Incubus seeks a puppet.
Wait. Wait wait.
Abbadon owns a lake?
While I know she is being manipulated, anger at being silenced and having my skin fused against my will would set me off as well. Soon they will realize that Alison is no mere hireling or minion.
Also, she’s totally hot when she’s angry.
If you do not start anything, so you will be nothing.-a proverb
Deathless that eternal lie
And on strange aeons
I may eat a pie
Aw, haha, I love this comic for the story and the art both, but poor Loabarrisleb appears to have lost an eye in that middle panel. There should be one more under the offset seventh eye, no?
The Heretics court, it is more treacherous than I was ever told. May the god’s long forgotten look down upon our heroes with mercy, for this is the Devils heaven now.
Have Allison’s eye’s changed color like that before?
They’ve changed before when she wields the key, to a sort of golden-white glow. I dunno if the reddish hue is due to the light cast by their location, or if they intentionally match Incubus’s eyes now that he has a part in helping her direct her power.
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Imagine telling Belligerant knights that you want to escape to a land of no violence, there are few actions more foolish one could commit in such a situation.
He is lucky they didn’t immediately part his head from his shoulders or worse.
AL-YIS-UN is acquiring a multitude of mentors, but not all of them are, uh, great. Zoss is no Yoda, but Incubus certainly makes him look the part.
I’m still excited to see her exert her will upon these devils, though! This should be fun. I hope a couple die.