Dark Relic Page #3

REAL VICTORY:

FROM PERCEIVED VICTORY.

I FEAR THIS CRUSADE

WILL NOT BE THE LAST.

- AFTER WHAT I'VE WITNESSED,

I HOPE YOU'RE WRONG.

- I WONDER WHY YOU ARE

SO KEEN TO RETURN HOME.

DID YOU NOT FIND

THE GLORY YOU SOUGHT?

- THERE WAS NO GLORY.

- FIGHTING FOR GOD

IS GLORY ENOUGH.

- I USED TO THINK SO.

- AND NOW?

- MAN BEGETS THE EVILS

OF THIS WORLD.

NOT GOD.

- AND IS YOUR LOSS OF FAITH

THE REASON YOU DRESS

LIKE A FILTHY PIG?

- [chuckles]

I ONCE LED:

100 MEN-AT-ARMS.

WHAT YOU SEE HERE...

IS ALL THAT'S LEFT.

TO WASH MY HANDS

OF THAT BLOOD...

WOULD BE LIKE PONTIUS PILATE

WASHING HIS HANDS.

I'M NOT YET READY

FOR MY ABSOLUTION.

- ALL OF THIS IS

THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE...

[twig cracks]

[sniffs]

YOUR SHIP BEACHED HERE.

FROM HERE, WE SHOULD

GO INTO CONSTANTINOPLE,

AND FROM THERE,

YOU CAN CARRY ON TO ROME.

- THAT IS A LONG WAY AROUND.

WHY NOT GO WEST?

- BECAUSE THAT WAY, YOU WOULD

HAVE TO CROSS THE SEA TWICE.

AND...

AFTER YOUR:

RECENT EXPERIENCE,

I THOUGHT MAYBE YOU

WOULD PREFER TO STAY DRY.

- SO WE

FOLLOW YOU BLINDLY?

- YOU CAN TAKE YOUR

OWN BLIND PATH IF YOU PREFER.

- CAREFUL HOW YOU SPEAK TO ME.

- WHY SHOULD SHE

WATCH HER MOUTH:

AROUND SUCH:

AN UNGALLANT KNIGHT?

- A KNIGHT WHO HAS A SERF

LIKE YOU UNDER HIS PROTECTION.

YOU SHOULD BE:

THANKFUL FOR THAT.

- [sighs]

I CAN LOOK AFTER MYSELF.

- YOU HAVE COURAGE.

IT IS A FINE:

QUALITY TO HAVE.

- SOMETHING I INHERITED

FROM MY FATHER.

HE WAS A BLACKSMITH.

HE TAUGHT ME HOW TO SURVIVE

IN AN UNJUST WORLD.

- THE WORLD IS

NOT UNJUST, MY CHILD.

GOD IS EVERYWHERE.

- I DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD.

- THAT IS BLASPHEMY.

- IF THERE IS A GOD,

WHY DID HE:

KILL MY FATHER...

AND HAVE ME INDENTURED

TO A SPOILED LORD

WHO DRAGGED ME:

HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD

ON A PILGRIMAGE:

I HAVE NO BELIEF IN?

WHERE'S THE SENSE

IN THAT?

- THERE ARE PUNISHMENTS

FOR WHAT YOU'VE JUST SAID.

- YOUR GOD PUNISHES THOSE

WHO DO NOT BELIEVE?

ALLAH SUBHAN-ALLAH

IS MORE MERCIFUL THAN THAT.

- DON'T GET ME

STARTED ON YOU, HEATHEN!

- THERE ARE NO ARGUMENTS

IN THIS CAMP.

WE'RE ALL FRIENDS HERE.

I THINK NOW WOULD BE

A GOOD TIME FOR US TO SLEEP.

MY KNIGHTS WILL KEEP WATCH.

[owl hooting]

[horse nickering]

- I'M AFRAID THAT'S

ALL WE COULD SPARE.

BUT IT'S NICE AND WARM.

AND MAKE SURE IT DOESN'T PU YOU TO SLEEP LIKE THE LAST TIME.

- THANK YOU.

COLD'S BITING WORSE

THAN EVER TONIGHT.

[menacing whispers]

[metal clanging]

[thunder clapping]

- [menacing growls]

- NO SIGN?

- NO.

- THE RELIC WAS SAFE.

- WHY WOULD THIEVES

NOT TAKE IT?

- WE TRACKED

THE KNIGHT'S FOOTSTEPS.

THEY JUST VANISH.

- MUST'VE BEEN AN AMBUSH.

- YOU MISHEARD ME,

I SAID THEY VANISH.

HE DID NO TAKE ANOTHER STEP.

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