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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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As the mural progressed before the terrified eyes of the gremlins' next handful of acquisitions, Jervil attuned his senses toward those responses that signified a particular range of emotional responses in the captives. Above all, he watched for a sign of a deeper understanding, as if some part of the grand work was a symbol of particular significance to one woman or another. Those parts the rat-man infused with that impression through the sorcerous energy consumed from a wisp. The Demon fragment previously housed therein was released to drift without a point of interaction in the Undercellar, but still corralled in the location by the extensive system of runes placed there by Anjerome and Jervil. Over the months of work, the mural became a massive combination of symbolism and sorcerous energy, and the wisps and jackrats dwindled in number.

But though the fragments of Demonic essence ever combined into a spiritual cloud of intelligence hovering in the darkness, there was little cohesion to those splinters, and the rat-man realized that a coalescing of all would only happen in one of two ways. First, if he could find that missing identity fragment and a symbol to identify it, Jervil could make the Demon whole and control its ever-increasing hunger. Or, failing that, the rat-man knew that the growing hunger within each fragment would ultimately unify the cloud itself and further draw to it the pieces that were housed in the gremlins and remaining jackrats and wisps. Jervil knew that Anjerome's Bookbinding would ensure that one of the two eventualities occurred, and that the master sorcerer had considered the latter option to be calamitous, as did the Chief Scribe Theonius.

But if the rat-man were able to fulfill the demands of the Bookbinding, summoning the Harbinger from the Otherness and thereby freeing himself, perhaps then neither eventuality would be necessary. As he painted, Jervil recognized that such a possibility lay within the mural itself. For as the work progressed and the captives' reactions to it grew more intense, the rat-man saw the potential for what Theonius had described as a "dual quickening," the same process that had been used to summon the Harbinger's essence centuries before. For the right woman, someone who would respond to the power and symbols of the finished mural, a combination of carefully-tailored sorcery and physical stimulus could combine to release a greater potential within body and soul. And now, at last, Jervil had his solution.

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For anyone concerned, this rather lengthy addition into the Bookbinding chapter has been carefully considered (yes, really). Publication length in paperback has always been an issue for these chapters, and when an average "proper" length was determined, a juggling and reorganizing of pages from Bare Necessities to Bookbinding took place. The changes won't be reflected here on DA until the publications are coming out for each chapter. Suffice to say that the 190-page monstrosity of a chapter that Bookbinding appears to be here on DA will actually be reduced back down to a more manageable 115-120 pages when it's all said and done. I've got a slew of awesome Elina pages burning a hole in my mind thanks to Feathered-pics ' wonderful reference material, and I have about 25 pounds of drawing boards currently encumbered with those half-finished images, too. It's all slowed down as I work on getting Rats ready for publication, but that's nearing completion and then we should get this thing done.

As indicated on the previous page, that image actually came to mind as an insert into this one. I drew what is Page133 full size after I had this image finished without the captive, then I merged the two digitally. You can read all about it in the posts made by collared-by-faile in these links:

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.

Description
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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As the mural progressed before the terrified eyes of the gremlins' next handful of acquisitions, Jervil attuned his senses toward those responses that signified a particular range of emotional responses in the captives. Above all, he watched for a sign of a deeper understanding, as if some part of the grand work was a symbol of particular significance to one woman or another. Those parts the rat-man infused with that impression through the sorcerous energy consumed from a wisp. The Demon fragment previously housed therein was released to drift without a point of interaction in the Undercellar, but still corralled in the location by the extensive system of runes placed there by Anjerome and Jervil. Over the months of work, the mural became a massive combination of symbolism and sorcerous energy, and the wisps and jackrats dwindled in number.

But though the fragments of Demonic essence ever combined into a spiritual cloud of intelligence hovering in the darkness, there was little cohesion to those splinters, and the rat-man realized that a coalescing of all would only happen in one of two ways. First, if he could find that missing identity fragment and a symbol to identify it, Jervil could make the Demon whole and control its ever-increasing hunger. Or, failing that, the rat-man knew that the growing hunger within each fragment would ultimately unify the cloud itself and further draw to it the pieces that were housed in the gremlins and remaining jackrats and wisps. Jervil knew that Anjerome's Bookbinding would ensure that one of the two eventualities occurred, and that the master sorcerer had considered the latter option to be calamitous, as did the Chief Scribe Theonius.

But if the rat-man were able to fulfill the demands of the Bookbinding, summoning the Harbinger from the Otherness and thereby freeing himself, perhaps then neither eventuality would be necessary. As he painted, Jervil recognized that such a possibility lay within the mural itself. For as the work progressed and the captives' reactions to it grew more intense, the rat-man saw the potential for what Theonius had described as a "dual quickening," the same process that had been used to summon the Harbinger's essence centuries before. For the right woman, someone who would respond to the power and symbols of the finished mural, a combination of carefully-tailored sorcery and physical stimulus could combine to release a greater potential within body and soul. And now, at last, Jervil had his solution.

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

For anyone concerned, this rather lengthy addition into the Bookbinding chapter has been carefully considered (yes, really). Publication length in paperback has always been an issue for these chapters, and when an average "proper" length was determined, a juggling and reorganizing of pages from Bare Necessities to Bookbinding took place. The changes won't be reflected here on DA until the publications are coming out for each chapter. Suffice to say that the 190-page monstrosity of a chapter that Bookbinding appears to be here on DA will actually be reduced back down to a more manageable 115-120 pages when it's all said and done. I've got a slew of awesome Elina pages burning a hole in my mind thanks to Feathered-pics ' wonderful reference material, and I have about 25 pounds of drawing boards currently encumbered with those half-finished images, too. It's all slowed down as I work on getting Rats ready for publication, but that's nearing completion and then we should get this thing done.

As indicated on the previous page, that image actually came to mind as an insert into this one. I drew what is Page133 full size after I had this image finished without the captive, then I merged the two digitally. You can read all about it in the posts made by collared-by-faile in these links:

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.