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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… .***********************************************
"'Keep your secret and take heart, Scholar,'" Elina reads aloud, feeling the hair rising on her neck. "'Your venture ends. Hell arrives.'" At her flank, the anxious gremlin grows suddenly silent, and the room seems filled with the hissing of many brooms over dusty floors and the creaking of tightly twined cords.
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As always, Elina was drawn using the references provided by Emily at Feathered-pics . Thanks, Emily!
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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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Elina: "I appreciate you writing an up-to-the-minute prophecy for me, Zirena, but you really should have mentioned that last part first."
Zirena: "Look, if you don't want vague foreshadowing that only becomes clear once it happens, don't ask a seer."
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Upon continued pondering, I am intensely curious as to whether these last words etched in the wall are either (a) a plea/warning from Zirena to Elina to keep secret the identity of the missing fragment, or (b) some over-the-top sorcerous showboating from the new 'improved' Jervil. It feels more like the former but I could see it either way. I suppose time will tell ...
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Oohhh, that's a good moment. Perfect build up, use of prophecy and feeling of "oh crap".
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Fan.........TASTIC! 
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*rubs hands with glee*
This is going to be sooooo good!
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Say it with me folks. Ready? Ok, all together now:
"He's behind me, isn't he?"
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And it looks like we're going with Option 1, huh...
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Welp, Elena, it's time at least for you to join all the others. I don't, however, think the mirror is what awaits you after your being stripped and bound/gagged.
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Once again proving that it's always a good idea to check for fine print at the bottom of the page.
Like erick288, and many others I'm sure, I've been eagerly awaiting this development for a long time, and I can't tell you how happy I am that it has lived up to expectations. Timing, as they say, is everything, and the idea that Elina is receiving the warning she needed exactly at the moment that it won't do her any good any more I find deeply and deliciously satisfying. As White-Feather says, an "aw.... shit!" moment if ever there was one, and her expression captures the mix of emotions perfectly
As soon as I saw this image, a familiar little tune popped into my head:
" This is the end/ beautiful friend
This is the end/my only friend, the end....
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Well I'll be damned. You keep us waiting months for the moment of truth and when it arrives ...... it totally exceeds expectations. And yes. Sometimes fewer words are better when it comes to captions, and this is one of those. The picture says it.
(The "kraaaack" caption in Rats comes to mind as another example.)
Awesome image, great capture of that stunned realization / ohhhhhh shit moment if I've ever seen one. And after it's all said and done you took me by surprise ... didn't see it coming for a few more pages. Brilliantly played, as the Brits might say.
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Yeah, I've been leading and leading and leading up to it. I hope the next page is powerful enough to give that decisive "We Are There!" announcement at long last.
Regardless, thank you for the compliments! I'm glad you approve.
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Do you think the writer was nice enough to write 'Oh, and look behind you' on the wall?
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"It's the legendary beast of Aaaaagh!"
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Well, given this situation, it's more like 'the legendary beast of 'AAahh... no... ple-mmmphphph!'
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So somehow going back alone into the Stygian, underground labyrinth of prevy enchantment, seemed like a good idea?
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She and Luther determined that the risk to her was worth the potential information they believed they'd get. Given the number of "epiphany" images I've drawn for Elina in the last few pages, she's obviously figured out some important stuff and she's figured a way to get it out before anything untoward happens to her, like Mr. "Untoward" himself walking into the image on the left...
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It seemed a good idea at the time?
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Elina: 'Your venture ends. Hell arrives....aw sh*t...."
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Maybe it's vision is based on movement...
Zirena's got quite the sense of dramatic timing there, although I doubt Elina appreciates the showmanship. Now on to Elina v Bondage Demon
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Zirena just can't help it--her every glimpse is an ironic one...
If she holds real still and throws the gremlin across the room, the big guy just might chase it...
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As an Englishman, i feel that it is my cultural duty to say "HES BEHIND YOU!!".
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Actually its a reference to Pantomime a traditionally British form of comedic stage play where the actors often break the fourth wall to interact with the audience, who are encouraged to do the same thing i.e. when the villain shows up when the hero is not aware the audience is encouraged to say "hes behind you"! among other things.
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Ah! Yes, that would make sense. Thank you for the clarification.
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lol sorry mate ill let you have the next one
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Gah, so awesome!!! So, who wrote this second phrase? And what do the two blood spatters mean???
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It's the same handwriting as Zirena's. The blood spatters will be explained in a few more pages. 
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I always wonder at the impressive lack of attention protagonists pay attention to their surroundings (This hardly applies to just your works). Then again, I suppose the story wouldn't be as interesting if Elina didn't get herself captured again although this time by a very sexually frustrated hellbeast.
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I do know people who show a remarkable lack of awareness of their surroundings. I guess I just get frustrated because I'm not like that at all. I can't help but notice everything around me even when I don't want to. It's especially annoying on public transport.
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...and then someone shows me that I'm standing on top of a red ant hill and says, "Hey, uh, Jeff. You're like that."
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Look out, Velma! 
I know, I know, Elina... but she'll always be Velma to me.
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it may be a touch vulgar but I think there is only one meme that fits this scene. *Ahem* "Surprise Mutha Fucka"
or if you are feeling classical. "They are coming, we cannot get out."
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or or or
IT'S A TRAP.
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or or or or, "Heeeeeeeeres Johny"
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