Rahan. Episode 133. By Roger Lecureux. The First Star. A Puke (TM) Comic.

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Rahan.

The son of the Ferocious Ages!

Episode One hundred and Thirty Three.

By Roger Lecureux, drawn by Andre Cheret.

The First Star.

Lost in the swamps since the day before, Rahan discovered with pleasure some trees whose trunks were covered with moss on one side only.
Rahan will no longer be going around in circles, like he has been doing since yesterday!

Experience had taught him that this moss always grew on the side from which the north wind blew.
You are the most precious tracking sign for Rahan!

He was continuing on his way when the hideous head of a large iguana emerged from a thicket.
You do not scare Rahan "Lezark"! And since Rahan is hungry, he goes.

Flee this territory, man with, hair of fire! Otherwise.
It is I who will devour you!
Me, "the spirit of the marshes”!
Oh!
The monster had spoken!

Page Two.

After a brief moment of shock, the son of Crao rushed forward.
Rahan does not believe in spirits, "Lezark"! He will prove it to you!

Oh!
The "Monster" who was fleeing into the undergrowth was only a frail hunter with an iguana's head!

Rahan caught up with him in a few leaps.
And.
What? What?
Please "Fire-Hair"! Please! Do not kill me!

The young woman had not seen the "Season-of-Green-Leaves" more than twenty times.
Rahan does not kill "Those-who-walk-upright"!
But he wants to know what you are. And why did you want to scare him!

I am Haita, and I belonged, many moons ago, to the clan of the "first star"!
But one day.

While I was fishing with my brothers, the great river swept us away in its whirlpools.
Its anger was terrible.

Page Three.

And all my people perished!
I alone was spared and dragged, for days, to this cursed territory of the "Mud-that-devours."

For two seasons I have lived on fish and small "Lezarks."
Dreading night and day to be captured by the "Mud-Men."

The "Mud-men"!?
They are fearsome hunters that haunt these swamps!
They feed on the flesh of those they capture!

Until this day I have escaped them thanks to this trick of the "Lezark Who speaks!”
They spare me, because they believe that I am the "Demon-marsh!"

But one day they will uncover my trick, as you yourself have done!
They. They will devour me!
Haita led the son of Crao to a hut hidden in the reeds.

But why do you not try to join your people, Haita!?
For days and days I tried to do it!
But I kept getting lost, or coming back to the same point!

Page Four.

But since it was the river that brought you here, you just have to go back up the river to find your clan!
I did it, Rahan! But.

The river's curves are so great that it would take me seasons to reach my clan.
And the banks are infested with "Woodskins"!

Rahan will take you back to the brothers, Haita!
Do you allow him to quench his thirst?
No! Do not drink that! Rahan! This root juice is harmful!

You drink it as well!
Because I am used to it!
But, at first this drink made me crazy! Do not drink!

If Haita resisted this drink, Rahan will resist it too!
The son of Crao swallowed a long gulp of the thick brew.
And.

He immediately felt as if a club was crushing his neck!
Rahan should not have! Rahan should not have!
He now saw two, three, four Haita in front of him.
Page Five.

Half-conscious he dashed into a clearing near the marshes.
The hunter who prowls the territory of the "Demon" must die!

The men who emerged were only three. But Rahan thought he saw a pack.
Flee, Haita! Flee!
Rahan, I will not, I will not fear.
Not these beings, yes, yes.

Feeling unable to fight.
He fled himself, dragging the "Mud-men" into.
Another direction.
They, they will probably kill Rahan. But.

Unbeknownst to his pursuers who were approaching, he threw his ivory weapon under a rock.
They, they will not have his knife!

It was then that his powers abandoned him.
He collapsed, breaking young and frail bamboo shoots in his fall.
Ha. Rahan will join you in the "Shadow Kingdom" Crao.

Then he sank into total unconsciousness.
I will eat his heart!
Page Six.

No, Kahuk!
To hit or eat a game that is already dead is against our law!
But we will find its companion!

Hiding in the reeds, Haita saw the "Mud Men" disappear.
These savages believed that the hunter with the "Fire-Hair" was dead!
But, maybe he really is!

The son of Crao was still alive, but his body was covered in sweat and incomprehensible words escaped from his pale lips.
Crao. The blue mountain. The shadows. Knife.

In his delirium.
He imagined himself being tortured by "Mud men" and "Shadows."
And this with his own ivory knife.

All of Haita's efforts to revive him were in vain.
The Shadows. The Shadows, The.
You are in too much pain, "Fire-Hair"! Real death would be a relief for you.

Yes. It is possible that you join the "Territory of Shadows" right away!
The sharp tip of the bamboo was about to plunge into the throat of the son of Crao.
Page Seven.

But Haita suddenly rebelled against herself.
No! I cannot kill you! I cannot!
If you have one chance to survive, one chance to survive, I have no right to steal it from you!

The young woman left without being able to control her grief.
Farewell, unknown brother!
Farewell, hunter only whose name I will have known!

For two days and two nights the son of Crao remained thus between life and death!
But his robustness triumphed over the latter.

The fever fell and he stopped raving.
But it was not until the morning of the third day that he regained his senses.
Oh! Where is Rahan? Why did the "Mud Men" spare him?

And why did they drag him into this forest!?
Tall bamboos rose up into the sky.
Bamboos that were not there when he lost consciousness!

The "Mud-men" must have captured Rahan and brought him here! Oh!
Rahan must still be dreaming!
He recognized the rock under which he had hidden his ivory knife.

Page Eight.

The ivory weapon was still there!
This means that Rahan stayed in the same place like this rock! But then.
How did this forest grow that did not exist!?

The son of the fierce ages knew many things.
But he did not know that some species of bamboo can grow several meters in a single day!
Rahan must find Haita!

The tracks led him to the reed hut, not far from the river.
Gone! May she have escaped the "Mud-men"!

Screams of terror, screams of a woman, suddenly shattered his thoughts.
Let me go! Let me go!
Haita!

This might be an opportunity to bring in the "Demon-of-the-Swamp"!
Struggling against the mud, he hurried towards the shore from where the cries arose.

Let go of me! Let go of me! Only monsters can eat their own kind!
Haita was brutally dragged away by fearsome and redoubtable "Mud Men."

Page Nine.

It is the spirit of the swamps "Who will devour the "Mud-Men"!
Ah! Flee! Flee!

The spirit is coming! You belong to it!
With his reflexes restored, Rahan could have faced these three beings.
But using this stratagem amused him!
Argh!

Panicked, the "Mud-men" threw themselves into the river and disappeared very quickly, carried away by the fast current.
Ha-ha-ha! Rahan hates to abuse the credulity of "Those-who-walk-upright."

But he recognize that your trick is very effective Haita! But where were you going?
I was waiting for the first star to come back before I could get going again.

When mine go astray, it is always towards the first star that they head to find our clan.

Why did you not say it sooner!
Rahan knows this star that lights up before all the others and goes out last.
Rahan will lead you to your people!

Page Ten.

But the first star only shines at night!
During the day, we will go astray! We will retrace our steps!
And everything will always have to start again!

We will not have to wait for the nights, Haita!
See this moss. It grows almost always on the North side.
By walking in the direction it grows we will never retrace our steps!

And as soon as the star appears, we will veer in its direction!
Guiding ourselves sometimes on the moss, sometimes on the "Star", we will quickly be among your people!

Are you a sorcerer, "Fire-Hair"?
No, Haita!
Rahan is a simple hunter, who observes nature!

Ha-ha-ha! The mud men are left hungry today!
The son of Crao led his companion north for a long time.
He only turned when this star appeared to them, which was the first to light up every day and the last to go out. This star, which is called "Venus" but which men, hundreds of centuries later, would nickname "The Shepherd's Star."