if these sinners , these devils should take my life karter , i have one last order for you . protect my sister , my brothers . protect them with your life come hell or high water . if they strike a blow against them , strike back harder , draw blood , make them pay . make them repent in MY name ! kill them all karter .
THERE COMES a moment of silence from him, eyes shot to the ground as he perishes the thought of having to PROTECT the other members of the Seed Family, but even more so the CONCEPT of John’s death. He wants to alienate any sort of notion ENTIRELY. He’d sooner die than let John perish under his watch.
HE’D SWORN an oath to lay down his life for the sake of John’s survival and now...JOHN SPOKE of his own death? He’d never mentioned any sort of thing before and it was beginning to cause an anxiety to WELL UP inside him. Was nothing sacred anymore?
The only reason he even JOINED THIS CAUSE was to protect John. If John passes what purpose did he have to continue? He’d sworn fealty to a LONE SOUL. ONE. That wasn’t so easily traded or transferred to next of KIN. And then there was the subject of the AFTER CLAUSE.
‘Protect my sister, my brothers, protect them with your life come hell or high water’
He didn’t need to second guess who that would be including. JACOB SEED. JACOB FUCKING SEED. Even thinking on him now Karter has to swallow his anger by digging nails into his palm. FUCK JACOB SEED ! He’d have sooner hung himself than ever swear loyalty to a man like Jacob Seed, regardless of his ties to John. But his loyalty trumped his disdain so he had come to an understanding with John. Karter would do as he’s told, but NEVER would he come to love or care for Jacob Seed. As unspoken as it was, it was THERE. And compared to the time Karter spent assisting Faith & Joseph himself, Karter’s aid sent to Jacob was...MINIMAL.
But this? TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE for a man he’d sooner put in the ground himself was borderline BLASPHEMOUS. But even still his loyalty outweighs his disdain.
“If that’s what you want, then you have my word. My life.”
IT STUNG just thinking about it. All the ramifications if John were to pass away or worse...BE KILLED. That’d leave Karter with no exits...JUST JACOB. And knowing how the Seed family seemed to operate he’d likely be sent DIRECTLY to Jacob as a means of bridging the only gap betwixt Karter & the family. What FRESH hell it’d be to be forced to serve at the side of a monster like Jacob Seed. At least with John, Karter could see GLIMMERS. John was no saint, FAR FROM IT, but he was a preferred demon to that of Jacob Seed.
But even as he says those words, the sorrow that seems to befall him is soul crushing, shoulders slumping slightly and a frown pulling at his lips as though John’s words seemed to have STOMPED down upon him. Even if this IS all hypothetical the thought of John dying is a very DIFFICULT pill to swallow.
