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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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Soon thereafter, the investigations of the new Magistracy began drawing government agents closer and closer to the Fair Harvest. Annalae the Courtesan was revealed as the murderess and forced to flee her former life. At Callista's suggestion she moved into the Fair Harvest Inn and took the guise of one of the serving maids there. The blond thief herself left the city for an extended stay at the Mitesceru Estate. Jervil concentrated on turning the mural into a monolith of conversion and sorcerous quickening, but with tensions high, all feared that the enterprise would soon be discovered.

The first agent of the Magistrate to officially investigate the inn was a bounty hunter named Valerin Caldwyre, formerly of the City Guard, she had been recruited for special service for her strength of will and efficient practical side. Valerin apparently tracked a brigand into the Fair Harvest, confronted him and laid him low. In questioning the innkeeper, the bounty hunter's interest was piqued by the rumors of disappearances and thievery, and despite Master Fiskerne's gruff, dismissive manner, she decided to further her investigate the cellars beneath the inn itself. There she discovered the fringes of the Undercellar's construction and ran afoul of the gremlin mob that ambushed, disarmed, secured, and stripped her. Though she was able to win free of the entrapment and make her way back up to the inn, she was stopped by Fiskerne himself.

Uncertain of his role at this point, the innkeeper grudgingly re-secured Valerin to return her into the gremlins' clutches, but his hesitation allowed the bounty hunter to surprise him and wound him gravely.
Valerin would have made good her escape had Jervil not intervened, healing Albert's wounded scalp and infusing a foothold within the large man at the cost of another runemote. Albert reacquired the nearly escaped woman and hauled her back down to the Undercellar, where Jervil himself awaited, his attention drawn away from the mural by the trouble.

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Finally we reach the known storyline! Valerin was drawn using reference material provided by photographer Viator-Defessus and model catchan . My thanks to both of you!

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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Soon thereafter, the investigations of the new Magistracy began drawing government agents closer and closer to the Fair Harvest. Annalae the Courtesan was revealed as the murderess and forced to flee her former life. At Callista's suggestion she moved into the Fair Harvest Inn and took the guise of one of the serving maids there. The blond thief herself left the city for an extended stay at the Mitesceru Estate. Jervil concentrated on turning the mural into a monolith of conversion and sorcerous quickening, but with tensions high, all feared that the enterprise would soon be discovered.

The first agent of the Magistrate to officially investigate the inn was a bounty hunter named Valerin Caldwyre, formerly of the City Guard, she had been recruited for special service for her strength of will and efficient practical side. Valerin apparently tracked a brigand into the Fair Harvest, confronted him and laid him low. In questioning the innkeeper, the bounty hunter's interest was piqued by the rumors of disappearances and thievery, and despite Master Fiskerne's gruff, dismissive manner, she decided to further her investigate the cellars beneath the inn itself. There she discovered the fringes of the Undercellar's construction and ran afoul of the gremlin mob that ambushed, disarmed, secured, and stripped her. Though she was able to win free of the entrapment and make her way back up to the inn, she was stopped by Fiskerne himself.

Uncertain of his role at this point, the innkeeper grudgingly re-secured Valerin to return her into the gremlins' clutches, but his hesitation allowed the bounty hunter to surprise him and wound him gravely.
Valerin would have made good her escape had Jervil not intervened, healing Albert's wounded scalp and infusing a foothold within the large man at the cost of another runemote. Albert reacquired the nearly escaped woman and hauled her back down to the Undercellar, where Jervil himself awaited, his attention drawn away from the mural by the trouble.

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

Finally we reach the known storyline! Valerin was drawn using reference material provided by photographer Viator-Defessus and model catchan . My thanks to both of you!

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.