Firesongs (Echo)

Before I went into the writing Monastery for my revision course, I'd started revising the sparring scene between Fiona and Tarks in Water Song 1, based on all the new info from conversations and Ren Faire reference. I sketched it out and couldn't resist developing the sketch further than I'd planned.


Procreate and Apple Pencil

I guess I should tell people who I am. Jim Nightmare was wondering how come Gy and Sha and Daria and I all know each other. Here's why.

I'm Fiona. I'm a trader. I jump between worlds, and collect anything interesting that I can find, and then I go to another world and sell it. I've got this handy backpack here, which would be the size of a small room if you could crawl inside, but the hole's not big enough, so you just reach in and find what you want.

Anyway, I'd just landed in this place called Tapolith, and I needed a place to sleep, and one of the other merchants offered to let me sleep in his tent. That's Gy, or was Gy, but that's kind of a long story. Anyway, the next day, we were off getting a merchant's permit and come back to find a big crowd around the tent, and this scrappy little kid throwing Gy's meat pies around. It was a horrible mess. Nobody knew who the kid was or where he was from, except it turned out he was being chased, so I had to take care of him 'cause no one else would, and stop the guys who were after him from hurting him.

That's how I met Gy and adopted Sha and became his yaya. Daria's a different story - that's the girl in green over there. She came in later.

So here's a place, if you haven't already, come tell us who you are. I mean anyone. If you were already here, or if you just drifted in from some other world and haven't quite figured out where you are yet, or who are all these strange people in weird clothes talking as if they're all bosom friends. We're used to odd people appearing and disappearing here. Come say hiya.