Well, I hoped to have more than one of the three books from this week for today, but no luck. I should have some more of the last holdouts from this month by Monday, but we'll have to see if I make it back from traveling to another gig with Alex this evening.
This issue is related to us, via Serka telling it to the Lunar Magus, upon whose prophecies Mildew is basing everything he's used to build his cult. So it details how Serka and Hum went searching for the Magus, who of course has three different hideaways. Serka is rather excited for the adventure, the monster fighting, puzzles to decipher and traps to avoid.
Hum is busy insisting they aren't on a quest and wondering why Serka's intent on doing this. Each of them is wondering about both Mildew (preparing some big show for his starving fanatics) and the Gnomads (gaining forces on their march to kill Mildew and his bunch.) Shown via glimpses through some crystal ball thing they brought to find the Magus.
But really, it comes down to the child. Or children. Each of them wants this to time to be the time that works, and each wants a better world for their child (or children.) Hum thinks the way to that is forgetting all the magic and prophecies and just focusing on living and working. Though he doesn't turn away from the trip, doesn't try to talk Serka out of it. Serka doesn't want there to be another Whitlord, the dark kings that sold her people on a great reward in another world if they helped destroy this one.
There's a couple of lovely double-pages with small panels on either side of them couple talking. There's always a panel on the left side that shows one of their faces and just beside it, part of a larger image, in a faded colors of memory, is the same character as they were before. Serka as a crazed warrior in obsidian armor, spurred on by her Whitlord. Hum, an uncertain bard in the shadow of his king as said king proclaims they'll all fight to the death. Neither of them wants any more of that.
And I think Serka also hoped this would make certain the child (or children) survived birth. I don't know if she hoped the Lunar Magus had the skills to help a half-urken, half-human child survive, or if it was a belief that the quest itself would somehow carry the day. She mentions thinking this would make each of them their best selves, so maybe she thought that would help.
It didn't, so all that's left is to go home and watch another cycle of bloodshed gear up.
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