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unexpected complications [fan comic]

Summary:

The assassination of King Foltest fails, for a very unexpected reason.

Notes:

this is the greatest iorveth i have ever drawn and i will never draw better.

Work Text:

Letho scrambles gracelessly over the edge of one of those little Witcher boats, grunting. Iorveth stands, arms crossed a sneer on his face. “Failed by dh’oine yet again. What’s your excuse this time?” Letho, dripping and sullen, grumbling. “Vernon Roche is a katakan.” Iorveth’s face (and feather) fall in suspicion. “… What.” Terrible drawing of Roche with a scowl on his face, going “Grr, arg!l” and a series of arrows pointing out his various features. “Roche, Special Forces Commander. Stupid hat.” Next panel is a flashback to Roche, leaping out of his gambeson and chaperon, fully transformed into a katakan, a monster with a bat-like face and large claws and a curly mane down its front and back. He is attacking Letho, who in the panel says “Oh shit!”.  “He’s a katakan.” Iorveth, confounded, flabbergasted, incredulous and mad about it, says “What?” in slightly larger font. Pull all the way back to the tower, where Foltest has a kneeling half-shifted Roche at his feet, petting his mane and cradling his face. Roche is purring. “Good boy, Roche.” Geralt looks on, confused, “Hm.” Out the window are the silhouettes of Iorveth and Letho in the tiny boat, Iorveth with his hands (barely discernible) on his head. “WHAT?!” comes in the window in an agonized cry as Iorveth looses his gd mind.