After that little encounter with Savas which ended up in Savas’ death, Kargo and Roamer return to the hut where Ferah is obviously waiting because apparently she had nothing else to do while the two men went out to do whatever they had planned on doing. It’s not that I need everything explained, but really, it seems like they went for a stroll only to have that encounter with Savas which reinforces my idea that everything going on in this comic doesn’t happen because it makes sense, but because it is Plot Convenient. Now we need a reason to talk about the Meteor Tribe, because being a group of dangerous thugs wasn’t reason enough to tell Roamer the first time he departed. Really, there is no reason why this information has been kept from Roamer until now. The worst part, however, is that they still don’t talk about the tribe.
Also, keep in mind it has only been a day since Roamer joined the group. The way he reacts one would have thought they had raised him themselves or something.
Also, I want to point out another inconsistency I’ve just noticed. I’ve been talking that Roamer is three years old, because that’s what is written in his bio, but he behaves like a teenager. We already talked about how his age didn’t seem to match Ronja’s and the rest of the more adult second generation dogs. Well, I think this was something changed at a certain point because this is what is written in the intro of the comic.
“An «Asmundr» sequel. «It has been 2 years since the plague of the Shield Wolf was defeated, but the plague of human kind has begun and the pack of Asmundr were left with no choice but to leave their home. While «Father» is doing all he can to restore the balance on planet Earth, the pack must face the new world Aedra on their own. “
It has been two years. Niita and Grayson were together but Roamer wasn’t born until after the shieldwolf wars. Even if she was pregnant during the war, Roamer can’t possibly be three years old.
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According to the colors of the first panel it seems like late afternoon, as if the sun was starting to set but since this time these dogs don’t seem to have shadows I don’t know what time it can possibly be. If it’s afternoon I would like to know where these two have been all day or how far they actually moved because the previous page it didn’t seem to be later than early noon at most. It doesn’t make sense that they walked so far in just a couple of hours that it would take them a whole day to get back, specially when getting back in a hurry. The passage of time is terribly inconsistent.
Roamer rushes to the hut and goes straight to hug Ferah, relieved to see that she’s all right. Ferah is naturally surprised by his reaction and so am I. Let me insist on the fact Roamer has been with these two for a single day and has known them for three days, yet he’s showing more concern about Ferah than he ever showed for any of his family members. We never saw Roamer rush up to greet his family with a “I’m glad you’re ok, guys, I was so worried about you”. We never saw a single panel depicting their reunion at all. Roamer seems to care more about these two strangers than he cares about his family.
The second point I want to talk about is how Roamer is acting as if Ferah was a pathetic weakling that couldn’t protect herself, even when he has knowledge of her killing another dog. This is similar to Edward Cullen in Twilight wanting to protect Bella because she can’t protect herself. The sad thing in both cases is that, as disgusting and possessive as Edward is, both him and Roamer are right. Bella is a pathetic, clumsy, reckless idiot who is a danger to herself, capable to slicing her finger open with wrapping paper, and Ferah is a useless damsel in distress who wouldn’t be able to save herself from drowning in a shallow puddle.
I would also like to know why Roamer was so worried about Ferah. Was he afraid Savas would rise from the dead and go after Ferah or something? They had their encounter with the MT dog far from the hut and he made it clear he didn’t know where their hideout was. Why would he assume something had happened to Ferah while they were out. I know this is here to show how much Roamer cares about Ferah but it doesn’t make sense and his constant concern for other females is making me believe he’s a sexist asshole who thinks women are incapable of defending themselves. At least Kargo seems to have a higher opinion of Ferah as she left alone to hunt and returned with the knife of an MT dog. He might seem cold as he showed no concern, but he already saw she was all right so, why should he overreact?
After that, Roamer says he’s retreating to the hut while looking at Kargo in a strange way. If this was actually Roamer having doubts about Kargo it would have been a nice thing, but it is not. It’s not terrible, mind you, since Roamer’s reaction is that he was confused about Kargo reacting the way he did, so that’s actually understandable. I would be shocked too if someone I knew suddenly got violent and repeatedly stabbed another guy to death, even if that guy had threatened to rape a friend which in my opinion is a good enough reason to beat the shit out of anyone. Roamer still doesn’t know about the tribe and what they do to females, so his reaction towards the way Kargo behaved seems genuine enough. Kargo then tells Ferah what happened and she offers to go talk to him.
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Once inside we see a few details of the hut. I think it’s actually kind of nice, with herbs drying on the ceiling and furs all over the place. There is what looks like a metal lamp or something next to the wooden beams that hold the pelt cover together. I don’t think keeping fire in a tent made of wood, dry plants and furs is a wise idea, and not like they need light because these are dogs. They have night vision. I would also like to know where these dogs got the metal lamps because I’ve already pointed out that they don’t have metallurgy. They can’t have metallurgy.
Ferah points out that Roamer’s wound looks nasty but how it shouldn’t leave a scar if she uses some herbs on it. The usage of herbs to heal is actually nice, but we already have the pulsating bark which has proven to be an effective remedy. I’m aware we humans have several remedies ourselves to heal wounds so it’s ok if they have them too, but I wonder why not use the bark straight away. If there was a good explanation, like the bark not being safe around head wounds because it would bury in the brain, or maybe it being hard to find, that would have been ok, but since worldbuilding is lacking in this comic a lot more questions pop up than we get answers. I also want to point out that, if you’re going to used sentences like “these herbs”, the herbs actually have to show up in the panel or Ferah has to appear looking for them in a container or something. Otherwise it looks strange.
“To my pack, the scars tell of your experience and courage.”
“Well, to us, no scars are a sign of intelligence and freedom.”
I thought this was actually pretty nice because both are right and wrong at the same time. Roamer says his people believe scars are a sign of experience and courage, which is true. Each scar tells a different story of how it was gotten, it speaks of experiences and how they never turned their backs from a threat and fought bravely. It’s a nice sentiment. However, scars can also mean being reckless and inexperienced, since an experienced warrior would avoid getting hurt as a wound can easily kill you, specially if it gets infected. A lot of fantasy writers forget that one of the first causes of warfare deaths was not getting stabbed in the guts with a blade, but the infection you got from minor, non threatening cuts. Also, you can get scars from doing stupid things, like jumping from places you shouldn’t jump to impress your friends, and even from accidents. I have a couple of scars from biking myself, and I wasn’t doing anything reckless.
I think that’s basically what Ferah meant. Avoiding situations that are beyond your skills, and analyzing a situation before you face it to avoid unnecessary risks is the intelligent way to handle them efficiently and to stay safe. However, that can also mean staying away from problems and avoiding conflict, which is an acceptable philosophy but not a very nice one. In both cases their views have a good and a bad side, and I thought this little bit of worldbuilding was actually rather nice. It’s interesting to see how different cultures tackle similar situations differently depending on how they’ve been raised.
Ferah tells Roamer about Savas while picking up some herbs from a stone that is inside the hut acting as a table. That stone was also present in the first and second panel. I am aware that the speech bubbles are over them, but they’re translucent and they don’t cover it completely, leaving part of it exposed. The herbs were not there in the first two panels. These are the kind of inconsistencies you can’t let happen in your comic. Writing a flawless work is impossible, but this is the very same page and Ferah was talking about the herbs on the first panel. The author shouldn’t have missed it. The fourth panel is even worse as it shows that the herbs Ferah had been picking up from the stone are magically missing. The herbs will not appear again and they will never be used on Roamer.
“We have to relocate, Roamer.(…)”
Now you have to relocate? What kept you guys from relocating before? Really, this is never explained. They never moved because it was convenient for the plot, and that’s it.
“(…)You should go to your pack tomorrow and tell them everything you’ve learned.”
Really, what kept you from telling Roamer’s pack all about this world and the tribe before he actually left to join you guys? There is absolutely no logical reason why he couldn’t have already gotten that information from Kargo and told them as much the moment he decided to leave.
“You might not see them again for a very long time.”
This is the kind of thing that would make anyone think about their options. When I left with my boyfriend to live abroad there was a moment where I actually thought about staying behind because I couldn’t cope with the idea of leaving everything; my family, my friends, my job and my whole life. I didn’t do it because my boyfriend is also my family, but it was a very difficult choice for me. I knew I wouldn’t see them in a very long time and I knew I might even loose some of my friends, if not all of them. That alone was enough to make me reconsider my options. Roamer has already been shown to care very little about his family and friends, but at least he was moving away to a hut that is relatively close to their territory. Now Ferah is telling him he might not see them again, so I would expect him to have some sort of reaction, maybe regret, sadness, something.
“Savas mentioned Kargo had a brother..What happened to him?”
That’s it. Roamer’s response to “you won’t see your family again” is that sentence, a question to get into story time mode. Roamer barely even thought about his family when he moved out but now Ferah told him he might not see them again in a long time, and he doesn’t give a shit. He doesn’t make a sad face, or shows a thoughtful expression or makes any comment at all and not only in this place. This will never be mentioned again in the future, like ever. This is the good guy, this is our hero, I’m supposed to root for this asshole who doesn’t give a fucking shit about his own damn family. It’s not like he has any reason to not care about them. The Asmundr pack are actually pretty nice and understanding people most of the time, so he doesn’t have a reason to react like they don’t even exist. I really want to know why the author even bothered to bring the Asmundr pack to Aedra at all. They are so inconsequential to the plot, and they seem to get mentioned out of obligation. If this had been a completely new idea, even if it was in the same universe, we wouldn’t be having all of these problems with Roamer being a selfish bastard who wouldn’t give a fuck about his family even if he got payed to.
Moving on, Ferah tells Roamer that they used to be part of the tribe which is actually a nice bit of information. She tells him they decided to escape. Here is the thing, I know Roamer has asked about Kargo’s brother but I don’t know why Ferah wouldn’t go ahead and just tell him the whole story, including the parts about the tribe being a terrible hellhole full of rapist thugs and being those the reasons why Kargo decided to make a run for it. This will be shown later on, but what Roamer gets now is simply the story of Ralek, not the reasons why his friends ran off. It does nothing to actually explain why Kargo is such a violent bastard so it shouldn’t do anything to convince Roamer into staying with them.
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On last page Ferah told Roamer that she and Kargo managed to make it out of there, but Ralek stayed behind only to reunite with them a few days later. Let me point out a couple of details there. Kargo and Ralek are Jaro and Rifle Royale mix, and according to the info I found in the Asmundr page Rifles and Royales are a related breed, just one lives in the north and has long hair and the other lives in the south and has short hair, and apparently they also look like great danes. We have here the same problem that we had with Keirr and Rovhanion. Two different purebred or even a purebred and a mutt dog don’t give perfectly purebred looking dogs. If you look up pictures of the first generation dogs from the BackCross Project you will see they don’t look like dalmatians or pointers, but a mix of the two, and I’m talking about a cross between dalmatian and pointer, not a cross between a hound and a german shepherd.
On the previous page, when we see Ferah’s memory of Ralek approaching, it is snowing. I’m pointing this out because this short haired dog was not wearing any coat and nor was Ronja back in the pages where she meets with Ranach. I would have expected both short haired dogs would actually be wearing coats but apparently a coat is a fancy item that appears and disappears depending on what the author feels like at the moment. I don’t mind if these short haired dogs are used to the frigid conditions of this wasteland. It’s a little unlikely, but all right. What bothers me is how inconsistent the author is. It’s one or the other. You can’t have it both ways. I am aware that, in snowy regions, there are warmer days when it isn’t as cold. You still need a coat. It is not going to be a comfortable 18ºC. It’s still going to be 0ºC or a bit over it to keep the snow from melting. It was snowing when Ralek approached. That means 0ºC, and he was not wearing any coat.
Before we actually move on to this page I want to point out one last thing. The last panel is one of Kargo greeting his brother, whom he had thought lost. We get this heartwarming moment between Kargo and a guy we never saw in our lives and we don’t get a single panel of Roamer reuniting with his family, the Asmundr pack we’ve been following for a whole damn comic. No, I’m not going to drop that. I’m going to point out every instance where characters we don’t care about deserve more attention than the Asmundr pack, because I really believe this should have been an original story completely unrelated to Asmundr. If you’re not going to make the old characters irrelevant to the point of even forgetting Roamer is part of the pack, just scrap that whole thing and start again.
Now we talk about this page. Ferah tells Roamer that she fell in love with Ralek. I’m not a rape victim. I don’t have enough knowledge about that topic to talk about how Ferah should be reacting. From my own experience, all the men I’ve been with had an obsession about touching my breasts. This got so bad I would be driving and they would just touch my breast for no reason whatsoever or we’d be watching a movie and their hands would go to my breast. It reached the point where, today, I don’t allow anyone to touch my breast, not even during intimate foreplay. It makes me feel incredibly uncomfortable. Ferah comes from a tribe of rapists and she has been abused like all other females. I don’t know how she should react to this situation. Maybe she would reject all contact with males or maybe she would actually fall deeply in love with the only other man that has treated her kindly. Rape is such a complex problem and each person reacts in such different ways that I don’t know which would be the right option.
What I don’t like is the author treating this as a beautiful love story, like Bambi and Faline courting on a forest made of pink clouds, as if he had forgotten what Ferah had to go through ever since she was born. If the author had written something along the lines; “he was the first man to treat me with kindness so I couldn’t help but fall in love,” it would have been all right. Sometimes it is just a little change in the words we use, but they make the whole difference. Still, after what Ferah had to live through in the tribe and after what Ralek did, I highly doubt she would be comfortable or even want to be close to any man. She has been abused by practically every single man she’s ever known, excluding Kargo. She was betrayed by the man she gave her heart to. She should be weary around Roamer at the very least, or even reject him completely.
This author completely forgets these are not people who have never had to endure hardships. These two have been repeatedly abused. Kargo shouldn’t have healed Roamer in the cave. Ferah shouldn’t have seen hope or any other bullshit in his eyes, she shouldn’t even have wanted to approach him. She should have been furious at Kargo after he released him. Kargo should have killed Roamer and ran off with Ferah before anyone noticed. These people behave like middleclass guys when they should be riddled with PTSD and all sort of issues from their continuous abuse. I know the author tried to show how mistrusting and wary they are, and we already said he failed the very moment Kargo saved Roamer and treated him kindly and the moment Ferah said there was hope in his eyes so that meant he was a good guy.
“It had only bee one month since we met,”
Wait, what? Ralek and Kargo are brothers and we discover later on that Kargo and Ferah were raised together until he was dragged away to be trained. If Ralek is Kargo’s older brother they might have grown close during training, although this is nothing but speculating since Ralek is only used to explain Kargo’s loss of control and will not be mentioned ever again. Still, maybe they grew close during training, but it doesn’t explain why Ferah never met him before. Females are abused in the tribe but they’re not kept in cages. Only mothers are kept in a safe place while the pups grow. The tribe is not very large, only a couple dozen individuals. There are classrooms at schools with twice as many students and yet we are capable of remembering everyone’s faces and names. Ferah is basically saying she has never met someone she went to class with.
Moving on. Ralek shows his true colors and three other dogs appear and capture Ferah. It looks as if Ralek has guided her towards a place where she would be ambushed. While this is actually quiet nice, I don’t get why Ralek wouldn’t guide her further away from Kargo to keep him from intervening. Once Ferah is back inside Meteor Tribe walls rescuing her alone would be suicide. The logical thing would have been to use the trust Ferah had placed on Ralek to drive her far away from Kargo so she wouldn’t be able to call for help. However, if Ralek had actually been smart we would have never had Kargo barge in to rescue her Punisher style, so this is yet again characters acting like idiots for Plot Convenience.
Remember when I said Ferah is, sadly, a completely useless damsel in distress who is unable to save herself from drowning in a shallow puddle? This is one of the many moments where Ferah has to be rescued by men because she’s unable to save herself. Do not tell me that she’s one against four large male dogs because Kargo was one against four and he destroyed them without even getting a scratch. Don’t tell me Kargo has military training while Ferah doesn’t. Ellen Ripley was a pathetic human without military training against the alien queen and a nest full of xenomorphs and she destroyed her and her brood using brains and brawn alike. This story was written by someone. There is no reason why he couldn’t have written Ferah trying to fight instead of remaining there and screaming for Kargo because she can’t be a proactive woman to, literally, save her life. The sad thing is a lot of people regard Ferah as a strong female. This is your strong female? A passive storyteller mystique who needs men to save her all the time? Aurora was more of a strong woman than Ferah is, and that’s kind of sad since she spent half the movie sleeping.
Before we move on this is yet again another of those moments were these dogs are dead, blind and have an impaired sense of scent. Sure, there are a lot of rocks and places to hide from what we can see in other panels, but Ferah should have still heard or smelled something, even if she didn’t see them. Actually, these dogs keep getting surprised by other dogs sneaking up on them, even when that should not be possible. Want to introduce a character in the scene? Have him sneak up on the rest of the cast. Want to get Roamer and Kargo together? Get Roamer to sneak up on Kargo. Want to have a conflict with Savas? Make him sneak up on the two dogs while being in an open plain and while Roamer is looking in his direction. In all honesty, it’s getting a bit repetitive.
I’ve been watching a TV serie called Wolfblood. It’s a very British like serie and focused towards a more teenage audience than a young adult audience, but the episodes are 25 minutes long which makes them perfect for lunchtime. I’m also a sucker for werewolves so I’m pretty much going to see everything about them. I’m bringing it up because the wolves use their sense of smell all the time, and it is even used as a storytelling resource. The author keeps forgetting something as simple as dogs and their prodigious sense of smell, which is ridiculous since that is one of the things we most admire from them, and that we use the most. Dog sense of smell is used in human rescue missions, hunting, drug detection, explosive detection, hunting, even to detect sugar levels in diabetic patients and epileptic attacks in patients with epilepsy. Dogs are so useful to us because of their sense of smell I don’t understand why the author doesn’t play more with that.
Before we move on into the next and last page for this entry I want to talk about a little detail. See the last panel? Ferah is calling for Kargo, and the speech bubble used is a star shaped one. Just ten pages back Ronja got called by someone from the Asmundr pack (we never know who and it’s really not important) and the speech bubble used was a round one. In both cases the person was screaming. Just because Ferah is more desperate it doesn’t mean the other person wasn’t screaming at all. If the author wanted to show Ferah’s fear he could have dropped the bubble altogether and used a sound effect with Kargo in big, bold, red letters or something, which is actually a resource used in comics.
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The first thing we see when we start is this;
“I don’t know why Ralek chose to lay an ambush so close to where Kargo was..”
This feels to me like the author realizing he just opened a plot hole the size of an airbus and tried to patch it up with additional information. This is something the author does way too frequently. He writes something without thinking about the big picture, considering only where he wants to move the story in the next few pages, and when someone points out the obvious plothole in the comment he goes ahead and patches it up the very next page by adding bits of information that, usually, only increase the inconsistency. In most cases this is caused by the fact we never really get an explanation, like here. Ferah is basically saying she knows Ralek was acting like an idiot but she doesn’t know why he was acting like an idiot because the author can’t give a satisfactory explanation of why he chose to ambush her so close to Kargo. Kargo was close because it was Plot Convenient that he saved Ferah. How could we have solved this? Have Ralek take Ferah to the ambush which is far from their shelter, then have Ferah break free. Weaponless, her only choice is to run. She manages to reach Kargo, tells her about Ralek’s ambush and Kargo fights his brother to death (if it was so important that Kargo killed his brother). There, problem solved.
“He knew Kargo was the strongest of them all.”
This is yet again the author telling us how awesome our hero is, which doesn’t make any sense. Kargo was trained as a shepherd, not as a warrior. He should not have better fighting skills than any other dog and it was him against four. Sure, we have heard about the eighteen dead dogs but we will see this is not so much Kargo going berserker as it is the Meteor Tribe killing the rebels that stayed behind. The thing is Kargo just fought four dogs by himself, because Ferah is useless, and he didn’t even get a scratch. You can be an awesome fighter but Kargo just entered at brawl distance. No way he’s going to be able to fight off four dogs and come out unscathed. I also would like to point at the marks we see on his body in panels 5 to 7. They look like scars and Ralek has them as well, but the thing is they were not there several pages ago. This is not the only case of vanishing scars. We will see Ronja’s scar vanish to never appear again.
“Maybe he was thinking that he didn’t have it in him to kill his own brother.”
Maybe Ralek shouldn’t just assume things, specially when his orders were to get Ferah back to the tribe and he had managed to get her to trust him. The hard part was done. Get her to a remote place and catch her. Or just kill Kargo while he sleeps. We’ve already seen that kidnapping Ferah is as easy as stealing a Furby. All she does is scream hoping the universe listens to her and sends someone to save her sorry ass because she can’t do anything by herself.
“Or maybe he was hoping that this would change Kargo’s decision, and bring him back to the tribe.”
For what? Being executed? Jarl Arenak would not tolerate having a traitor around and he would need to make an example of him anyways to keep the rest of the tribe in line. Accepting Ferah back into the tribe is mainly because she’s an object to be used, and because she was not the instigator of the rebellion. Actually, she didn’t do shit. It was all Kargo’s doing because of course it was. Accepting a rebel who had managed to move a bunch of other dogs into following him towards freedom is shooting himself in the foot. Arena would look weak, other tribe members would perceive it not as a gesture of good will but as a gesture that the Jarl is not such a big threat as he looks like, and Kargo already has a reputation. Maybe others would follow him, see him as a savior, even conspire against the Jarl. Bringing him back for something other than to be executed is out of the question.
This actually shows how ridiculous the whole “tribe wants Ferah” thing is. Savas told Kargo that if he gave Ferah away, the tribe would leave them alone. Why? Ferah is just a sex object marked as barren. She’s really not worth the hassle as she has so far not demonstrated to be able to bear pups, making her essentially useless. Females in this tribe don’t appear to do anything else than pleasure males and birth pups, so Ferah would be a total waster of resources since she can’t contribute to the tribe at all.
The logical thing would be for Savas, and also Ralek, to want to return with Kargo. Kargo was the instigator of the rebellion. He was the mastermind and the brute force. He killed several dogs, managed to mobilize others into following him and pretty much gave Arenak the middle finger. To all respects, he’s William Wallace. For either Savas or Ralek to return with the rebel leader captive it would mean a great honor. Arenak would have payed them generously and his leadership would have been reinforced after executing the rebel leader. This is what would make sense, alas, this is not what we get. Instead, the Meteor tribe is obsessed with Ferah and there is a clear reason why. To fuel Kargo’s manpain and self righteous violence and to show how evil the tribe is since they rape helpless, innocent women and drown kittens, you know? That’s it. In the comic it is never explained why the tribe wants Ferah so much, and as soon as it stops serving its purpose it gets pushed aside to the pile of plotholes like everything else.
Essentially, this whole attempt at explanation is nothing but the author trying to clean up after a plothole, instead of thinking up a believable way for Kargo to save Ferah (like, I don’t know, following her scent!) without making Ralek look like a complete idiot. We never get an explanation. We get Ferah speculating about several options because it is obvious the whole “Kargo is close” is there simply for Plot Convenience. It had to be him who saved Ferah because Ferah couldn’t possibly save herself, and by trying to make Kargo into an omnipresent savior the author has created yet another plothole.
“Whatever mark held his stare, soon faded into cold oblivion.”
Like I said at the beginning of this read through I am not native, but I’ve never heard this expression in my life. I understand every word, I just don’t get what they’re supposed to mean when put together like that. Is she trying to say that Ralek died? Because that’s the weirdest way ever.
To be honest this four panels where we see Kargo hugging his brother while he dies are kind of touching. These are the kind of “take your time to develop” scenes that are so rare in the comic. Kargo truly looks affected when his brother slowly falls down as the life escapes from him, and his “forgive me” sounds completely genuine. I can believe these two guys loved each other, which is more than I can say about the Asmundr pack and Roamer.
We see Ferah in the background, laying down and with the ropes still around her neck. She hasn’t even tried to help Kargo. She hasn’t tried to fight. She just stayed there looking while Kargo risked his life against four other dogs. Why do people think this is a strong character? She couldn’t be more pathetic and useless if this had been done on purpose. You might want to remind me about the time she stabbed a dog in cold blood. That was done merely because it was plot convenient, because it allowed Ronja to show her pathetic womanly jealousy and to tell Roamer and Ranach about her. Ferah is the most distinguishable dog in the whole comic because she’s the only border collie. Kargo is black, like Ranach and Savas, and half the tribe. So the fact Ferah killed a dog was simply because it suited the plot.
Look at her now. No, this will not be an exception.
Ferah tells Roamer that he had no choice but to kill him, which I’m not going to argue against. Ralek had managed to track Kargo and Ferah back to their hideout. He had managed to make Ferah trust him and got three other dogs along with him to capture her. I’m guessing leaving them alive to go back and tell the tribe where they were was not an option. By killing them it gave Ferah and Kargo time to move away before the tribe realized what was going on. If my maths are correct it’s been somewhere between two and three years. There was plenty of time for the two of them to get away. Why are they still there? Oh, yah, Plot Convenience.
Roamer then asks Ferah if he can borrow her coat. I’m guessing this is supposed to make us think he’s leaving for good but, really, why would he ask Ferah for her coat? Roamer has never been bothered by the cold, so it makes no sense he would start using coats. This is a red herring, but not one that is very well done, to be honest, because you have to use believable things to create them. Also, this is yet again another example of character concealing information from other characters for no reason other than to confuse the readers or to keep information from the readers. There was no reason why Roamer couldn’t tell Kargo and Ferah about their plan. Actually, he should have so they could help him. We will expand on that in the following entry, but lets say he is, yet again, acting like an idiot for Plot Convenience.
Also, note that his wound is still open and bleeding. It never got healed. The herbs were never used at all. The author should really read up on what a Chekhov’s Gun is.
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