Thorn: !!
Oh — hello! Are you another one of the gardeners?
Katya: No, Sir Thorn . . . I’m here to see you.
Specifically, to see that all you guard stations get your refills of tissues and hand sanitizer.
Leif & Thorn
Fantasy comedy about a magic knight trying to have a romance in his second language
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*Takes out testing kit, wearing MOPP gear* Okay, full NBCR tests on these materials coming up.
Acronyms expanded for others,
MMOP- Mission-Oriented Protective Posture.
NBCR- Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, Radiological ((That last R is new to me. ))
It would be extraordinarily sloppy of Sønheim to attack foreign nationals in this way inside-ish their own embassy.
The last we saw of Sønheim Embassy Management, they were talking about using Leif as a spy, if they can find a “goal” with enough ” emotional weight ” to offset Leif’s guilt over hurting someone he cares about.
My vote’s on Katya subverting juuuust enough orders to get a message to Thorn.
I’m pretty sure that Katya is maybe not totally down with self-sacrifice to the same extent as Leif, so maybe she’s trying to warn Thorn about it while working within the system.
I second Khyrin’s vote, as I thought it was obvious Katya is trying to get a message to Thorn.
She might think he may care about Leif enough to be an ally in whatever she’s trying to do. She’s far more practical and genre-savvy than Leif is, so she would end up being a help to Thorn as well. It would be interesting if these two teamed up to fight the system in some way!
Absolutely! Leif and Katya platonic spy buddies from opposed world powers AU?
Though Thorn ‘fighting the system’ puts me in the mind of Dorfl, the first Golem to work for the Ank-Morpork City Guard. The entirety of his paycheck goes to buying other Golems to set them free, and then they, in turn, work to set yet more Golems free.
Aaand now I’m imagining Golem! Thorn rampaging about and shouting
“WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN“.
I should go to bed.
Heh, you assume Katya already knows Thorn can be trusted with secret messages….
I don’t think she is subverting orders. I think they didn’t realized she might interfere in their plan with Leif and needs to be ordered not to and she’s making sure they don’t realize she interfered later either.
I’d say it’d still count as subversion. “I said nothing to Sir Thorn. I was simply talking to myself. How was I to know a barbarian spoke our wonderful language so well?”
Is there a typo in panel 4? “all you guard stations” sounds wrong, like she’s talking to the building Thorn is inside. Is it supposed to be “your?”
It’s slightly dehumanizing, but not grammatically incorrect.
So basically it’s Sonheimic being Sonheimic?
I’m thinking Katya just wants to get a read on Thorn herself since she can tell how close he is/is becoming to Leif. I don’t think the two of them have interacted before this point.
This strip hits different in May 2020…
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