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The next page is here: faile35.deviantart.com/art/Boo… . For more information on the entire series, read the "'Demon's Due' Defined" journal entry here faile35.deviantart.com/journal… or the "'Demon's Due' Plus" journal entry here faile35.deviantart.com/journal… .

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Jervil subjected the new acquisition to his conversion methods with a vengeance, but it soon became apparent that the real value of the blond thief was the connection she had with the innkeeper. After subtle observation, the possessed rat-man removed the woman's gag and resumed his cultivation of her devotion to the saving power of the Harbinger, but it was Master Fiskerne who ultimately intervened. Revealing that the woman was in fact his former adopted daughter, disaffected with her home and family when the High Lady Maladyne had dismissed her staff and closed down her manor several years before to pursue her personal agenda. Master Fiskerne's wife had been one of the earliest to follow Maladyne on the ill-fated excursion into the Otherness--her Fading was long-since vanished--and the young woman Callista had simply disappeared, lost to Albert until she showed up in Jervil's clutches, a disavowed member of the city guard and a thief of relics and symbols from the Mitesceru Family Estate.

Albert's hostility toward the rat-man cracked. He plead with "the Master" to spare the young woman from the ordeal and allow her instead to aid the two of them in realizing the Bookbinding. Recognizing the value of a roving agent with the thief's particular skills, the possessed rat-man agreed, gaining influence over both the intrepid young woman and the innkeeper himself, though Albert still refused to allow Jervil's gremlin mob, jackrat horde, and runemote flock into the inn proper.

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This is more painful violence toward a lady than I generally care to illustrate. The furious look on her face is intended to show the unbroken rage of the woman in the rat-man's clutches in spite of his treatment, though it is part of the story that the torture did succeed in breaking her down a bit so that she would desperately agree to aid Jervil's plot instead of continue with the conversion process.

Callista was drawn using the wonderful imagery of Natalie at fetishfaerie-stock . She has been a joy to draw for 7 years. Thanks, Natalie! And the next couple of pages are all about done, too.

Enjoy!

Note: Bookbinding and Demon's Due are a work of fantasy and fiction. The artist/creator in no way condones real mistreatment of this kind toward any woman or man, by living person, gremlin, plant, assassin, ratman, viscous fluid, programmed device, animated home furnishings, or otherworldly spiritual beings. Furthermore, the artist opposes the marginalizing and restriction of women in general by any institution, political and/or religious, including those which have individual women amongst their membership touting/promoting their own happiness within that institution as evidence that ALL women should feel the same way. This includes the religion I was raised in and which I have utterly discarded from my life over this and other issues.

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The next page is here: faile35.deviantart.com/art/Boo… . For more information on the entire series, read the "'Demon's Due' Defined" journal entry here faile35.deviantart.com/journal… or the "'Demon's Due' Plus" journal entry here faile35.deviantart.com/journal… .

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Jervil subjected the new acquisition to his conversion methods with a vengeance, but it soon became apparent that the real value of the blond thief was the connection she had with the innkeeper. After subtle observation, the possessed rat-man removed the woman's gag and resumed his cultivation of her devotion to the saving power of the Harbinger, but it was Master Fiskerne who ultimately intervened. Revealing that the woman was in fact his former adopted daughter, disaffected with her home and family when the High Lady Maladyne had dismissed her staff and closed down her manor several years before to pursue her personal agenda. Master Fiskerne's wife had been one of the earliest to follow Maladyne on the ill-fated excursion into the Otherness--her Fading was long-since vanished--and the young woman Callista had simply disappeared, lost to Albert until she showed up in Jervil's clutches, a disavowed member of the city guard and a thief of relics and symbols from the Mitesceru Family Estate.

Albert's hostility toward the rat-man cracked. He plead with "the Master" to spare the young woman from the ordeal and allow her instead to aid the two of them in realizing the Bookbinding. Recognizing the value of a roving agent with the thief's particular skills, the possessed rat-man agreed, gaining influence over both the intrepid young woman and the innkeeper himself, though Albert still refused to allow Jervil's gremlin mob, jackrat horde, and runemote flock into the inn proper.

***********************************************

This is more painful violence toward a lady than I generally care to illustrate. The furious look on her face is intended to show the unbroken rage of the woman in the rat-man's clutches in spite of his treatment, though it is part of the story that the torture did succeed in breaking her down a bit so that she would desperately agree to aid Jervil's plot instead of continue with the conversion process.

Callista was drawn using the wonderful imagery of Natalie at fetishfaerie-stock . She has been a joy to draw for 7 years. Thanks, Natalie! And the next couple of pages are all about done, too.

Enjoy!

Note: Bookbinding and Demon's Due are a work of fantasy and fiction. The artist/creator in no way condones real mistreatment of this kind toward any woman or man, by living person, gremlin, plant, assassin, ratman, viscous fluid, programmed device, animated home furnishings, or otherworldly spiritual beings. Furthermore, the artist opposes the marginalizing and restriction of women in general by any institution, political and/or religious, including those which have individual women amongst their membership touting/promoting their own happiness within that institution as evidence that ALL women should feel the same way. This includes the religion I was raised in and which I have utterly discarded from my life over this and other issues.