This is what happens when you do drugs. You see murder.

Well said. No questions.

I have a theory, but it's not a very pleasant theory...

So. Page 91, we see what I'm assuming is a young Amon. This young Amon, perhaps separated from his mother due to being owned by someone else, tries to run away. His owner, who I'm assuming is the figure in the doorway, is not pleased and beats Amon.

Page 92. Amon tries to escape again, but is caught. He is a child after all, but anyways. His owner is even less pleased and beats Amon into unconsciousness, and drugs him with the Divine. This is how Amon got addicted in the first place, he was force-fed it. His owner assumed this would keep him in line...

Now, this page, 93. It didn't. Amon tries to escape again. He succeeds, but the aforementioned addiction has him returning. He needs a fix, he's going through withdrawl, any number of reasons come to mind. But with him having escaped, his owner was none too pleased and not having Amon around to take it out on, he took it out on the next best thing; his mother.

This results in Amon returning to see his mother's corpse. Whether deliberate or accidental, she died from her injuries and it broke Amon. This is why he's so afraid of the Divine plant back in Volume 1, why he panics when Dhaval makes a run for it, and why he has this need to give up himself for the benefit of others. He blames himself for his mother's death, since if he hadn't run away, she wouldn't have died. Whether or not he sees himself as worthless, I can't really tell given the mask he's put up quite often. But he certainly doesn't hesitate to put himself on the chopping block to keep everyone else safe. Whether it's altruism or low self-worth, I can't say for sure.

[EDIT] Just as I finish typing this, another thought hits me. What if the body in the final panel isn't his mother, but Kadar? Originally I thought he might not remember him, but there's the possibility he does, and he never knew how close Kadar came to rescuing his son until that very point, when he discovers Kadar's corpse tossed away in an alley like so much trash?

This theory has me feeling so much more than I want to right now but I actually see it as plausible 0.0

Your recaps of the drug induced dream are brilliant. I only have one thought/note...Kadar is running from the Sura clan in Legacy, and I can’t picture him leaving Ahsan. Plus, I don’t think Kadar really knew where to start looking for Amon. So I think you might be closer with the guess that it might be his mother, since Kadar was essentially drugged and kidnapped when Amon was still young. I still hope they find each other though. 🥰

I'd advise buying and reading Legacy - Dusk. I don't want to spoil it, but you seem to have missed the end of the story.

I agree with you lol. Unfortunately, I am currently unable to buy that book. 😭😭

I think it was a spoiler for me, I didn't finish Legacy yet. But it all makes sense...

Legacy is amazing, you have to finish that!

Am I right in remembering that Conviction has already been published in hard copy? I thought it had, but then I went to the start of this to see your cover page and it looks different. Was it changed later?

(This isn't meant as a complaint--I am just trying to make sure I have it straight)

Yep, it's been published. And we made a new cover, that's why it's different.

I can't wait to find out more about his backstory. He's always been my favorite character of yours.

Is Amon running from the old man who bought him as a child? He clearly seems to have stumbled upon someone who had been killed, judging by the final frames of this page. The suspense is killing me! Rukis, I am in love with your work! 💚💚

For this watercolour-esque nightmare sequence, you and Ishaway provide a colorful breath of fresh air from the comic's realistic atmosphere. I could just imagine this simple but powerful sequence in motion before my eyes.

I feel like he's having a prophetic vision of whats yet to come, the what appears to be a burned out building may represent the brothel or the city

Damn,for a furry exploitation comic this is suprisingly well written.