#127 Not So Secret, Secret
Nov12
on November 12, 2016
at 12:01 AM
Hey gang, I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that Lorion needs to get out more and have a drink, or two, or three…
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BACH-MANN
“tell NO ONE of this” he said. what about that cat spy listening on the conversations?
About that cat spy, she either another faction in the witch group that has other plans or it could be Clamor. So this could turn one of two ways. If it another faction, then there a possibility of an internal fight within the witches themselves. If Clamor the watching, then things are going to turn in a different way and BJ going to become the center of attention real quick.In either case there going to be trying to influence Melvin training and future actions and they want to keep everything secret too, as to what there doing.
It also look like Mater AK’KOR it talking to Clamor in the last frame and if that so, then we have another cat figure that watching too.
Does it occur to anyone that that “cat spy” could also easily have been Kazom? Who might have ‘poof’ed in just to see what kind of conversation ensued.
Master Ak’kor seems to have the level-headedness needed to balance out Lorion’s hot-headedness. He’s got his eyes on the bigger picture here–accommodating Kazom will be more than worth it if they can eventually get Melvin on their side.
Agreed. He’s playing the long-term game.
These guys sound like they’ve got no sense of humor…
It seemed more to me that the others are just not paying attention to the cat, because it is a familiar even if it did seem that Master Ak’kor is less outright bigoted. They may be treating the magical cat like a painting, its there but not anything important, which may mean that the cats have much more knowledge than they realize and may realize soon that they have options that they did not realize they had.
I think that neither of them realize that the cat is listening at the window. Cats are sneaky, and quiet.
Especially if, as I suspect, that “cat” is really not a cat.
I suspect that a large amount of upcoming plot is going to depend on revealing what the familiars actually _are_. From appearances, it looks as though the mages consider them to be animals enhanced to be useful as part of becoming a familiar, and are bound to their mage with no real existence outside of being a familiar. What we’ve seen with Clamor and the other familiar, though, suggests that while becoming a familiar may have raised them to sapience, they aren’t the unswervingly obedient servants the mages believe them to be. It may well turn out that, while making them a familar gave them their sapience, the bond between a mage and their familiar is weaker than they assume, and it’s only the lack of a situation that would bring mages into conflict with their familiars that has kept it from becoming apparent. And there are really low-probability outside possibilities that could throw curveballs into things — Clamor breaks away from Lorion down the plot a ways, but the enchantment that made her a familiar needs to be tied to a human, and attaches to BJ, for example. And then the formality of the relationship created by the enchantment might come back to bite BJ in the ass, such as having Clamor as his familiar and being in proximity to her but _unable_ to do the things his testosterone poisoning is pushing him to under the conditions of the enchantment.
Where do kitty booties? 🙁
Da*
The cat could also be a spy from another fraction within the Witches.
Bach-Mann? “Developement” -> development. 3 ‘e’s, not 4.
My guess is it’s Clamor and she is not amused about being denied further interaction with B.J.
Why would that even be worth mentioning? Especially with himself dismissing it as impossible.