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The Writing on the Wall CH21"By rights, you should be arrested again," Dr Cordet said, her hand over mine. Her knuckles were white, and my fingers hurt, but it was almost a nice reminder that we had not died.

I laughed, rather unsteadily as I worked my fingers free, dazed after travelling via hasty sigil. It was the first one I had ever made. That thought kept on repeating in my head, so that I was barely aware that Dr Cordet was speaking at all. I had to focus to understand her words.

"As for myself, I have spent far too much time away from my own bed. I have to compile the data gained from our little excursion, which I believe I shall do in combination with a n

The Writing on the Wall CH20The light grew fast, but thankfully that was because Demetrius had helped me to stand and started walking toward it, taking long strides. He seemed excited to have a goal. Or perhaps that was just me. He could have been embarrassed by his faux pas and wanting to leave it behind, as if it were a physical landmark.

It would have been easier to convince myself of that if he had shown at least a bit of remorse over what he'd done, but that was not something to dwell on. He would never make sense to me, I decided, and that was that.

All thoughts of this nature dribbled out of my head like beads of wax down the sides of a distressed candlesti

The Writing on the Wall CH19"That's impossible."

It didn't matter who said it, I wasn't listening terribly closely. All of my attention was on the Hollow Child and its lack of teeth. Hollow Man cried out somewhere. Like a caged animal. "Being used by..." That was the question they should have been asking. Who was using him?

Or perhaps I should have been asking myself why I cared. The other person inside me twitched, and I fell to my knees, retching. Oh, Dr Cordet, thank you so very much. Focusing or thinking, whatever it was she had told me to do, had not just woken up some connection. Nor a magnet pull either.

Someone held my hair back out of my face while

The Writing on the Wall CH18Out in the natural light of the world, I had to cock a grin. It was like going to another country, but as another person. I was a licensed sigil artist--a courier had brought the license with a dry letter from the king, both of which were in my modest rucksack.

The sheer rush of it, of being outside and official, were enough to flood my emotions. I could obscure from myself the fact that we were already leaving the outside in favour of a dank cave where the walls dripped and the king's men had insisted we would find the Hollow Man.

At the head of our meagre party, Soterios and Demetrius walked like soldiers. Soterios, rather less so. A

The Writing on the Wall CH17To know a thing, my mum had used to say, was to no longer know any fear of it. This had once seemed to me to be the most abject of wisdoms, comparing it to the monsters I knew. The things that rattled and bumped in the night. The fears I knew.

What the Hollow Man did to his victims scared me no less when I had finished the log than it had before. This might have seemed unfair to me had I taken a moment to try and soothe my mind with something so comforting as simple irritation.

I didn't want to talk about it to anyone. They didn't ask, even after I had shut Ser Naderry's dusty old book and covered my eyes. He had been a good writer, i

A Cuckoo Sings Inside Me CH3He looked at her the same way that the rest of them had. Trying not to screw up her face and say something privately unpleasant, Eleuin let her eyes drift about. She could not quite explain why this young person had given her the faint glimmer of hope he had. Possibly it was that he was even dirtier than the people she saw day to day.

Or it was because he was such a vivid piece of the world outside the window. It was not likely that he was the brown-cloaked man she had seen that afternoon, but she had been told that beggars all wore one like it. Eleuin tended to remember what she was told.

They sat there in uncomfortable silence for wh

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Another quick one that I had to interrupt with work. I know Akoni didn't turn out too well, but I loved this design idea. For once I actually know what to do with my title. Miranda (the only girl) and Lio (the dude on the far left) came out best.

The Onion Bible series is going to eventually be a bunch of YA stories set in a high school setting, hopefully different kinds of high schools. I've seen a lot of charter schools first hand, so I think I'll start with one of those at least.

I WOULD LOVE IT IF SOMEONE DREW THEM. Full body and such, colored or not.

The logo is my half-assed design as well. It looks kind of like a dove that's had a run of really bad luck.

If this were a television show...
Opening theme: [link]
Ending theme: [link]

I think about these things, no idea why.

EDIT: I think I fixed my problems with Anakoni.

*Hagge Mar 20, 2009 Professional General Artist

I think the term I'd use is "creatively done"

~Kid-Apocalypse Mar 20, 2009

I had a lot of fun with it. This kind of thing is usually well beyond me...

*Hagge Mar 23, 2009 Professional General Artist

Oh, I don't know about "well beyond..."...more like rarely touched upon. The ability is there...you're just not as well aquainted with it, as you are your writing ability, is all.

~Kid-Apocalypse Mar 27, 2009

Thanks... You know, you've probably touched on something important there. I'm very confident in my writing, so perhaps I compare my other creative works to it and feel annoyed when they don't match up.

By the waaay, would you like to do a trade? I've got my new shiny computer, still to learn what I can do with it art-wise, and I'd love to see your rendition of the Between the Lines characters...

*Hagge Mar 28, 2009 Professional General Artist

And it is the same with me and my writing. Were I to write as well as I paint and draw, I should be very pleased and published.

I thought you'd never ask

Of course! I've resurrected some older characters, and redesigned some new ones...whatcha want...old or new?

~Kid-Apocalypse Mar 28, 2009

Indeed you would! After I move, I'm going to go back to school to eventually become an editor, so maybe something good will happen...

Ooh....um, new! I need to pay more attention to poses.

*Hagge Mar 29, 2009 Professional General Artist

I am excited for you! That is so cool! Y'know I never thought I'd enjoy going back to school after I graduated, but I'm considering it myself later down the line. I believe you'd make a very fine editor.

Hm. Let's see then... ... ... how about a group? There's Reilyth, Pyne and Tori. Reilyth is human, Pyne and Tori are elvish, and Reilyth and Tori are female, Pyne , male. I should have a reference drawing here for you shortly.

~Kid-Apocalypse Mar 30, 2009

Thanks. I'm pretty excited about it too. All these books that I look at so critically just when I mean to read casually...seems like destiny.

Sounds great!

I'll probably get started on a lineart as soon as said reference is available.

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~Paladin343 Mar 17, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

*waves at characters* I love Miranda's pose.

~Kid-Apocalypse Mar 18, 2009

They're half in stasis.

But they make me think.

I love it too.

Gah, is it funny how much less work silhouettes are than actually drawing.

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