The Indwellers, Pg 59B
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Oh man…either the lady is going to tell him to bugger the heck off, OR She is going to tear Noblay completely apart. It sends shivers down my spine when I see that glare she’s levering at him.
im sure she has the skill to gut him and still leave him alive. a state that we call “wish you where dead”. or “please kill me i cant take the pain”
either of which im sure she can do very easy… congratz to chris for 1sting!
E.E : indeed she does. Remember what she did to the 3 psychos in first chapter after killing them ? Spiritual minced meat…
Strictly speaking she didn’t do that to those 3, it’s just where they happened to end up. She just let it happen.
I think it’s pretty well established by this point that she won’t leave someone wishing they were dead. She made Belahm wish quite heartily that she were dead; and then, despite showing as much malice as we’ve ever seen her display, she killed the troll when she asked. As utterly insufferable as Kiko is being, I think this may actually be something she literally can’t refuse.
I do love her expression in the third panel, though. “This? AGAIN??”
Dream : that’s technically speaking. She could have advised the local demons not to, after all, both of them were having their skin crawled just by seeing her around, specially the one that witnessed her Death Touch on his friend.
Albert : and you’re entirely true, that has been officially stated in the comic several times. However, she is still free to choose HOW. And that’s what will cost dear Kikko/Nobelay dearly.
Darth: I think in regards to the tree situation… the Lady simply saw her part in there as having ended. We see her displaying remarkably similar behavior in http://www.twilightlady.com/2008/07/11/the-disappeared-pg-35/ ; and we see in http://www.twilightlady.com/2009/08/16/bequeath-pg-22/ her subconscious telling her that she needs to see through to the end what she sets in motion — much as rat!Francesc did again a few moments past.
The Lady’s perspective on these matters is unusual, and something I’ve often found interesting to think on. It’s illustrated well by her attitude in http://www.twilightlady.com/2008/07/16/and-i-searched-behind-your-eyes-page-1b/ — she refuses to let problems — either her own or other people’s — keep her from having a free mind. Something she’s rather obsessive about, really, as we see in http://www.twilightlady.com/2009/08/11/bequeath-pg-21a/ . I can understand her point, but as I’ve said before, I think that her quest for freedom forms something of a prison itself — something she’s beginning to realize now. I think the incident with Jason and the trees simply shows how hasty she can sometimes be to depart from a matter… and the trouble that can set in motion when one too quickly withdraws one’s hand from the wheel of fate.
But that’s just me.
The tree situation can be viewed in a different light too, morally.
What if the demans are no less worthy of respect than the newly dead humans? Who is the Lady to deny a predator it’s prey? That would be rude, and not her place. That is, until Jason wished to be with his friends, then it became her place briefly, but she’d still prefer to keep her interference to a minimum.