The Dead Lands Page #5

My father asked me...

...to slay my whole family.

My wife...

...my children.

As repayment to an enemy.

I did it, to honour him and my tribe.

But the world is not honourable, boy.

Did the betrayal of your father

teach you nothing?

Do you hear me?

There is no nobility, just politics.

So...

...I killed everybody else, too.

I killed them all...

...in the night.

While they slept.

That is why people fear me.

The monster who killed his own tribe.

Do you hear me?

Do you hear?

I admit it!

I have a blackness that comes upon me...

...where even the God of War

would not venture.

I've done many bad things.

I told you...

...do not mistake me for a good man.

I am not the hero from the stories.

I am the monster.

You've done well so far, eh boy?

You're still alive.

I have failed.

Wirepa got away.

Well, you can give up...

...anyone can give up.

I didn't say I was giving up.

That's good.

I want repayment

for what happened to my son...

...and you are the only one who can get it.

Why do you stare at me?

What right do you have...

...to stare at me?

How dare you?

Sigh at me not!

I have something to show you.

There...

...see it?

There will be more flesh tonight.

Now we can settle up.

They will see it.

Fool!

You talk of fools?

Who set the ancestors

of this land against us?

And dragged us through it...

...with empty bellies!

He's a fool...

...but no need to kill him.

Why are we here?

You could not go on...

...so we took shelter.

It's defendable.

Are you ready to travel?

Fight him when you control the ground.

Back inside the fort!

Cowards!

It was glory you wanted.

Come then...

...and I will tell stories

about how brave you were.

Instead of hiding

behind a fence like cowards!

Look upon your son, Tane.

The weeping dwarf...

...who caused your tribe's suffering.

You are funny.

So brave, eh...

...behind a fence?

Behind my fence.

Glory...

...or death.

Either way...

...you'll make a handsome corpse, eh boy?

We will die here without water.

Be still.

It's only been a day.

Just one day, yes...

...but my mouth is filled with nothing but dust!

Mana is right.

We have no supplies.

You have put us in a trap.

Remember your place.

So it's our place...

...to die of thirst?

They have no food or water.

We have them.

Your quest for glory...

...where has it led us?

Into this trap...

...from which there is no escape!

We wither here until

the demon sees fit to consume us.

Settle down!

Come and look...

You are not your father.

Lord...

You are a fool!

There!

Let his blood sustain us.

Lord...

...look.

What did I tell you?

The ancestors of this place choose me.

I will make the boy's head...

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