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But where Jervil found Valerin surprising and Deirdre intriguing, Avora Villios was a complete enigma. Almost from the moment she regained consciousness and found herself a prisoner in the Undercellar, the Court Scribe-turned-Rogue Wizardess assumed an attitude of hatred mingled with humor and an unmistakable air of smug satisfaction. Where all other captives had found their situation distasteful, frightening, and utterly offensive, Avora seemed amused, even jovial at times. Having learned of the limitations of human consciousness from Anjerome and Theonius, Jervil suspected that the woman's mind had indeed broken, and he was going to further investigate the concept and even ask the Magistrate's new Chief Scribe about it when Avora herself revealed a portion of her secret to him.

"You are of my Uncle's making, are you not?" the woman's words spoke directly into his mind while he gazed upon her in her cage. The constrictor gag rendered most speech inarticulate, but the message piercing the rat-man's mind was as clear as words written in ink on paper. "I can see his thoughts in you, but you merely wear them like a coat and wield them like a painter's brush, just like the shape of mingled man and vermin housing your mind."

Jervil hesitated in caution before responding, not out of any kind of fear but out of concern that in detecting his true nature, the woman would withdraw her mental speech before he had the opportunity to learn of it more fully. "My past is Anjerome Villios," the rat-man responded carefully, "and he is my future as well."

The wizardess smiled through her gag. "There will never be another like my uncle," her mental voice responded. "He was unique in our Age, and should you try and mimic him, you will fail utterly..." Her eyes pierced the rat-man's knowingly. "But I can see in you that you will make the attempt nonetheless, which makes you, or the essence of you that possesses this hideous form, something entirely different. Something the Lady Maladyne isn't... expecting."

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I believe the model used in this reference is still un-guessed. I don't know, but I'll go back and check again and change these comments if I'm wrong. For the time being, though, rest assured that I have some totally kickass imagery to use for the upcoming Twisted Plot revision, and I've even drawn the first page of it already. Now that Spring semester is done, I'm really on a roll here, folks, and things should come together nicely and quickly for this chapter's conclusion, and for the Rats publication.

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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But where Jervil found Valerin surprising and Deirdre intriguing, Avora Villios was a complete enigma. Almost from the moment she regained consciousness and found herself a prisoner in the Undercellar, the Court Scribe-turned-Rogue Wizardess assumed an attitude of hatred mingled with humor and an unmistakable air of smug satisfaction. Where all other captives had found their situation distasteful, frightening, and utterly offensive, Avora seemed amused, even jovial at times. Having learned of the limitations of human consciousness from Anjerome and Theonius, Jervil suspected that the woman's mind had indeed broken, and he was going to further investigate the concept and even ask the Magistrate's new Chief Scribe about it when Avora herself revealed a portion of her secret to him.

"You are of my Uncle's making, are you not?" the woman's words spoke directly into his mind while he gazed upon her in her cage. The constrictor gag rendered most speech inarticulate, but the message piercing the rat-man's mind was as clear as words written in ink on paper. "I can see his thoughts in you, but you merely wear them like a coat and wield them like a painter's brush, just like the shape of mingled man and vermin housing your mind."

Jervil hesitated in caution before responding, not out of any kind of fear but out of concern that in detecting his true nature, the woman would withdraw her mental speech before he had the opportunity to learn of it more fully. "My past is Anjerome Villios," the rat-man responded carefully, "and he is my future as well."

The wizardess smiled through her gag. "There will never be another like my uncle," her mental voice responded. "He was unique in our Age, and should you try and mimic him, you will fail utterly..." Her eyes pierced the rat-man's knowingly. "But I can see in you that you will make the attempt nonetheless, which makes you, or the essence of you that possesses this hideous form, something entirely different. Something the Lady Maladyne isn't... expecting."

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I believe the model used in this reference is still un-guessed. I don't know, but I'll go back and check again and change these comments if I'm wrong. For the time being, though, rest assured that I have some totally kickass imagery to use for the upcoming Twisted Plot revision, and I've even drawn the first page of it already. Now that Spring semester is done, I'm really on a roll here, folks, and things should come together nicely and quickly for this chapter's conclusion, and for the Rats publication.

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.