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Fire-Eye #19 Elfquest vol. 2 #19
Warp, Dec 1997, b&w

1 Fire-Eye #19 cover Includes "Fire-Eye #18"
"In the deep wood something lurks, and leaps and learns the lessons of the Green...FIREóEYE." Many days after leaving the town of Port Passage, Chot and Jethel with Willowsnap return to the area on Sunholt ContinentóóForevergreen. Chot mentions the place stinks of magic worse than it ever did. Jethel recalls something Suntop told him: how it was really Door who sent to him an imageóóthis feels the same. Chot ranks this as another reason to hate this fool's quest. Jethel has on a jacket and boots. Chot calls the bugs cursed as the bugs are making so much noise they can't hear anything. They find humans impaled on large pointed stonesóósome face down and some face up. A snake goes through skulls...these poor dung muckers have been here a long time. Chot tells him, "I don't much care right now if you hear your sun maidens doing the flower song, I want out of here!!" Jethel says there is something more here. Chot quips, "Hunh! That's what the troll said just before the cave bear ate him." Jethel gets a sending and holds his head. Three humans comes running, blaming them for being servants to murderous lords. One is a big fat bald man, one smaller with straight back dark hair and a smaller one with longer, upward dark hair. Both smaller ones wear bandannas. One holds two knives. Amid the bodies of the dead humans, Jethel moves away from the attacker whom Chot tosses out of his way. As he falls past, Jethel kludds his sword down onto the attacker's back neck, causing much blood. Chot ssshhkks across the taller one, leaving the bald one who is now flanked by more. Chot wagers he can outfight all of them, calling the bald one barrel gut. A spear flies out and hits the bald one in the right side of his chest. Jethel orders, "Let's get out now!" Chot says, "Butóóbutóóawww, bear turds!" The bald one says to his men, "You foolsóóhelp me! It hurts!" They see someone running. Jethel heard singing in the sending. They move across a ground ending in a cliff and then over a tree branch which extends out to it from a larger area of trees. Jethel says, "It isóóI remember you..." Sadness was coming from here. It is Dodia. Jethel tells her he thinks she needs them. She seems more malicious and tells them she only does what must be done. The stone spikes were Door's warningsóóher lovemate. Chot says, "We never saw the old crackbrain." Dodia tells them Door is all around. Willowsnap says, "Hellohello," to a big eye chitter thing who lives here. It looks like a monkey, squirrel with big ears. Dodia couldn't leave because she and Door recognized. Willowsnap learns from the monkey thing that Nastybad Rock Smoosh Highthing got a little pebble thing." Dodia tells them the child is out of the way where his father can't harm him. She is crying. Chot thinks she has the stink of death on her...thinking she killed the cub to protect it. She takes them out to see a pit, telling them she has made it so that Door holds no sway over her sonóóor anyone ever. Chot thinks, "OOOóEEE! Yep, crazed as ravvit in a trap, this one..." Jethel touches her shoulder, telling her Door is gone. He can't hurt anyone any more. He tells her to come with them, even though there are only two of them, they can help her. For a moment, she seems to brighten but then she pushes him away, her eyes and face more hateful. She says, "You all ran away! Youall left me to deal with himóóand the child! You don't know a thing! You think Door's gone? Dead? Can't you feel him? You don't understandóóI have to do this my way!! Have you recognized anyone yet little chief of two?" She shares every dark and shining bit of herself with another. "He's here. I know it." Chot tells Jethel to let it go as she moves off. Chot has seen it among the GoóBacks. Door lives in her skull...she will never be rid of him. Dodia cries on her furs in her hut, "I know itóóleave me please." Chot thinks she will join Door pretty soon. Jethel hates not being able to help her. Chot thinks they are by getting out of here. Jethel hears singing again. In a hut on trees across a bridge, the humans see that the bald one will live. They call him the Great One. Drums signal guards that their vigil is overóóthat he will awaken soon. A panther tracks something and goes into a rock area where there is a curtain. It sniffs and moves the curtain. Behind the curtain is a dark elf, seemingly naked, "Huuuahhh!! Get out!!" The big cat reeeowws and runs away. "Ancient magic, long slumbering begins to stir.

	Fire-Eye #19	Elfquest vol. 2 #19 Warp, Dec 1997, b&w
1		Includes "Fire-Eye #18" "In the deep wood something lurks, and leaps and learns the lessons of the Green...FIREóEYE." Many days after leaving the town of Port Passage, Chot and Jethel with Willowsnap return to the area on Sunholt ContinentóóForevergreen. Chot mentions the place stinks of magic worse than it ever did. Jethel recalls something Suntop told him: how it was really Door who sent to him an imageóóthis feels the same. Chot ranks this as another reason to hate this fool's quest. Jethel has on a jacket and boots. Chot calls the bugs cursed as the bugs are making so much noise they can't hear anything. They find humans impaled on large pointed stonesóósome face down and some face up. A snake goes through skulls...these poor dung muckers have been here a long time. Chot tells him, "I don't much care right now if you hear your sun maidens doing the flower song, I want out of here!!" Jethel says there is something more here. Chot quips, "Hunh! That's what the troll said just before the cave bear ate him." Jethel gets a sending and holds his head. Three humans comes running, blaming them for being servants to murderous lords. One is a big fat bald man, one smaller with straight back dark hair and a smaller one with longer, upward dark hair. Both smaller ones wear bandannas. One holds two knives. Amid the bodies of the dead humans, Jethel moves away from the attacker whom Chot tosses out of his way. As he falls past, Jethel kludds his sword down onto the attacker's back neck, causing much blood. Chot ssshhkks across the taller one, leaving the bald one who is now flanked by more. Chot wagers he can outfight all of them, calling the bald one barrel gut. A spear flies out and hits the bald one in the right side of his chest. Jethel orders, "Let's get out now!" Chot says, "Butóóbutóóawww, bear turds!" The bald one says to his men, "You foolsóóhelp me! It hurts!" They see someone running. Jethel heard singing in the sending. They move across a ground ending in a cliff and then over a tree branch which extends out to it from a larger area of trees. Jethel says, "It isóóI remember you..." Sadness was coming from here. It is Dodia. Jethel tells her he thinks she needs them. She seems more malicious and tells them she only does what must be done. The stone spikes were Door's warningsóóher lovemate. Chot says, "We never saw the old crackbrain." Dodia tells them Door is all around. Willowsnap says, "Hellohello," to a big eye chitter thing who lives here. It looks like a monkey, squirrel with big ears. Dodia couldn't leave because she and Door recognized. Willowsnap learns from the monkey thing that Nastybad Rock Smoosh Highthing got a little pebble thing." Dodia tells them the child is out of the way where his father can't harm him. She is crying. Chot thinks she has the stink of death on her...thinking she killed the cub to protect it. She takes them out to see a pit, telling them she has made it so that Door holds no sway over her sonóóor anyone ever. Chot thinks, "OOOóEEE! Yep, crazed as ravvit in a trap, this one..." Jethel touches her shoulder, telling her Door is gone. He can't hurt anyone any more. He tells her to come with them, even though there are only two of them, they can help her. For a moment, she seems to brighten but then she pushes him away, her eyes and face more hateful. She says, "You all ran away! Youall left me to deal with himóóand the child! You don't know a thing! You think Door's gone? Dead? Can't you feel him? You don't understandóóI have to do this my way!! Have you recognized anyone yet little chief of two?" She shares every dark and shining bit of herself with another. "He's here. I know it." Chot tells Jethel to let it go as she moves off. Chot has seen it among the GoóBacks. Door lives in her skull...she will never be rid of him. Dodia cries on her furs in her hut, "I know itóóleave me please." Chot thinks she will join Door pretty soon. Jethel hates not being able to help her. Chot thinks they are by getting out of here. Jethel hears singing again. In a hut on trees across a bridge, the humans see that the bald one will live. They call him the Great One. Drums signal guards that their vigil is overóóthat he will awaken soon. A panther tracks something and goes into a rock area where there is a curtain. It sniffs and moves the curtain. Behind the curtain is a dark elf, seemingly naked, "Huuuahhh!! Get out!!" The big cat reeeowws and runs away. "Ancient magic, long slumbering begins to stir.