New Blood #32 Elfquest: New Blood #32
Warp, Oct 1995, b&w.
1 New Blood #32 cover SORROW'S FATE: A human woman, fat, calls to a man, a fat one called Jahri. They see Windkin flying. The woman wants to make the elf fear and obey them. They must tell their people so that they can attack again, forcing this demon to lift the magic that keeps the stones growing. Windkin finds a skeleton reaching up for the hole in the rock (Bailon). A troll and a human, Windkin thinks. He thinks about Ahdri. He flies to the star stone. He loved her once and she was gentle with his young heart. She has gone into the rock. Windkin leans on the Starstone and cries. Her face is in the starstone. A boy (probably the Slave Boy of Thuggop called Yahan) is hiding. He thinks the elf has come back to finish him...to suck his eyes out and eat his spirit. He has eaten all he could find in the scary places. He has tattered rags of remainders of clothing on. He has on what seems to be a cape of some kind, totally naked beneath. Windkin flies to him and asks him to tell him what happened here. The boy runs away but Windkin follows. The boy falls and babbles. Angry, Windkin asks what have his people have done. The boy wishes the demons killed him like they did to his friends. He cries and tells Windkin to kill him. The walls won't let him out. Bailon made him come here with the others. Windkin hugs the frightened boy, "Shush! There has been enough death. It's tainted whatever joy I hoped for my homecoming. More than my people have died...love, too, lies dead on the sand. Hold on to me. Hold tight!" They land near an open hut of some kind. The boy finds and eats fruit. The boy tells him the others want to make him force the rocks to stop growing and that they will come back. "I don't want to be here when they come back. I hate them all. You should fly away from here๑๑there are a lot of them still left!" Windkin says, "Yes, that would be the wise thing to do. But I do not feel very wise...have not been very wise..." The boy shuts his eyes, "If I could fly would, high and fast, far away from anyone who would hurt me, if I could fly..." Windkin's mother has the blood of the wolf, his father the eyes of the great hawks. His hunter skills allow him to find his prey: the woman and man watchers. He takes their water skin and dumps it out. The man tells the woman they will have to go back...in the heat they will dead before nightfall. It was supposed to rain. They wonder if Windkin will be waiting for them. Windkin seems to burn the human's hut and the former home. The boy carries a sack over his shoulder, "This time, I'm the one who's leaving! They'll never catch me again...if only I could fly...no one could ever hurt me again...if only..." He has tears in his eyes which drip down in large rivers.