Intermission 8 Page 33
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“I’d single-handedly salvaged the mission. My CO was happy, since it meant he wouldn’t have to go ask someone else for help doing the job he was assigned.”
“He got promoted.”
“He promoted me.”
“Word spread around the Guard about what I’d done, and from that point on I was on a constant upward trajectory.”
“Whenever there was unrest somewhere, in Goblintown or elsewhere, and the Guard was worried about their losses if they went in…”
“Someone would say, hey, what about that Kamau guy?”
“Usually because Saffron put the idea in their head.”
“And I’d get the job done.”
“Soon they were sending me into dungeons. I got good at that, too.”
“I was promoted to the Elite ranks within a few years, then to Enforcer within a few more.”
“I had a kid.”
“A beautiful baby girl.”
“Yasmin.”
I’m getting the feeling I will not like Saffron. I could be wrong (probably am), but she’s giving out these social climber vibes.
I mean I’m pretty sure he said that both of them wanted that, so she would be doing what they agreed on.
Kamau surely has his fair share of fault. At the end of the day he is the one holding the blade and doing the killing.
As a simple spectator, what I see is a man that was left alone behind enemy lines, had to fight for his life, came close to dying, but managed to survive by slaughtering his enemies. Dude arrived home with scars on his damn face, and now we learn about how the very events that left Kamau scarred were used by his wife to promete him to his superiors, so that he would be sent in more dangerous missions. “Promote” as in marketing.
Of course, Kamau enjoyed the fruits of his labor. The man achieved higher rankings, got bigger pays, became famous among the military, at the very least. He does have his fair share of fault.
If your loved one, who you know has a dangerous job, comes back home with pieces of their face missing, would you really keep gambling their life away for social and monetary gain? If your loved one does not know how to stop going down that ugly road, shouldn’t you be the one to pull the breaks? This is how I see Saffron right now.
I know I’m seeing too much into it. We barely have enough backstory to judge anything. Time will tell.
I don’t think they’re really is much love between the two. As stated by Kamau, both just wanted to use one another to get into better social graces and while Kamau had to do the physical battle, Saffron was fighting on the social banquet, which is probably more complicated than fighting for survival.
If what color you wear today or the way you do your hair can have political implications it’s not easy to survive a courtly encounter with you’re social standing intact, not even talking about actually having and gaining influence.
I really think they weren’t lovers but more like equally worthwhile partners in a business relationship. (Which may actually be a pretty good deal.)
So is that the shape of Kamau’s sword before it was broken, or did he upgrade again later on I wonder.
You can see Kamau’s full sword in his prologue on Ko-Fi.
That’s not the shape. It’s similar, but the one that got broken only has one “spike” at its very end (this one has two) and also the angle is nearly 90° for the spike on the one that got broken whereas here it seems to be a lot less than 90° for the two spikes on this blade.
Also, I really hope that was the CO (commanding officer) in the first picture, kicking and slaughtering his other subordinates, and not Kamau doing that to his peers or “other” humanoids that don’t even seem to be armed nor dangerous.
It’s Kamau, unfortunately. The color of the helmet’s visor matches the color of Kamau’s eyes. And it’s shown on the last picture that Kamau clearly has different eye color than others.
Had… past tense.