That’s a Bearded Vulture, by the way.
Ann Walker: Be a dear and open the door for me.
Ann’s Being: No problem, Master!
(CREEK)
Sparrow (voiceover): In fact, y’know what? I’d lay down money that’s what killed it.
Maybe the tests they ran trying to kill it sped the process along, or maybe they could just as easily have sat back and waited.
Ann’s Being: Good afternoon, Lightning! How are you feeling today?
Lightning: Please . . . Just let me see my Master again . . .
Sparrow (voiceover): And I definitely bet that if it’d had a Master to stay alive for, it would have survived no matter what.
Ann’s Being: Well, maybe this will be the time he finds you. I challenge you!
*sobs openly*
Oh poor thing…
Must… ignore… heartbreak… long enough… to point out… “spend” should be… “sped”!
GAH!
Fixed, thank you!
Holy shit, this is Cybele’s fate. Not that Cohen would purposely kill her, but if Bennett can’t get her back (and I don’t think any of us actually expects him to pull off a plan to get her out), he’s doing the same thing the Nazis and Walker is doing.
Unless Cohen is more of a dick than I think he is, I think he’d try to find a way to break the contract and sign her up with someone else before letting her die. Then again, he was a student of Walker’s, who knows what his intentions are
He’s accidentally doing the same thing the Nazis and Walker is doing. I knew I left out a word.
Judging by his past conversations with Cybele, I would agree with you. But tingly foreboding suggests that separation of Beings and their masters have consequences that most people probably haven’t thought about. Except for Walker, and we probably didn’t want her thinking about them.
Two possibilities.
1: Walker’s bribing the master to stay away, either through beneficial employment in one of her companies, or just plain paying them off to just not care.
2: She’s got the master imprisoned as well in some secret facility, barely kept alive and forced to stay imprisoned for the experiments.
I didn’t even think about the Master’s probable imprisonment. I went off of Tiger’s words “maybe this will be the time he finds you.” Vulture’s master is jerked along to the battle space same as Walker will be, but since he is across the globe from them, he never reaches the battle to reunite with his Being.
Sounds familiar to what Sparrow experiences actually.
…Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
I think so, Brain, but I haven’t figured out how a baby bird can hold the pen to sign a contract.
…Promise me something, Pinky.
NEVER BREED.
I can’t help wondering if Walker is actually going to play the “harsh but eventual hero” of the comic. I don’t see it in her character to actually take the high road, but choosing to kill Beings because they’re destined to become monstrous, possibly human-threatening beings… It could be that she wants to maintain her power by eliminating the rest, but I still don’t see how the transformation would change the present situation very much, with respect to the power that Walker wields.
I’m thinking more along the lines that Miranda will eventually be the reluctant ally to Bianca and Sparrow and be instrumental in helping whatever Master/Being pairs are being held/separated or may be targeted in the future by Walker. I doubt Miranda’s attempt at making a list of what Beings are where would have been shown if it’s not going to be important in some way later on.
Bearded vulture. Related to the great birds of mythology (specifically, the Homa bird of Iranian tradition?). Are they destined to turn into the mythological beasts?
It might just be the booze, but SCREW WALKER! WHAT A WITCH!
I always thought that Walker was going to be the major villain of this webcomic….