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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… .

The next page is here.

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In the enforced calm of near-total immobility, Elina resists the urge to wriggle hips and fingers or scream in futile exertion through the rope gag. Instead, she allows the Scholarly train of thoughts to guide her mind through the bleak horizon within. There is but one option left to her now, one decision to be made, and sensing it she hangs her head in mingled despair and recognition.

She chose this. In entering the dreaded labyrinth alone to carry out her studies and find the truth of the evils plaguing Dernhem, the disappearances of the High Lady Drea and her sister Avora and a small host of others, Elina had knowingly chosen this end. Luther had opposed it, as would every guardsman of House Vandermoor and her own family line had they been given the choice.

But there really had been no other choice. Knowing now as she did the nature of the enemy assailing them confirmed it. The amount of sorcerous and supernatural power concentrated in the labyrinth and in the personage of the Hellbinder itself would have turned the protective presence of any guards into a liability, resulting in a worthless waste of lives. Among those who opposed it, the Hellbinder would only spare those it wished for further purposes--like herself--and any guards would have certainly accompanied her to their own deaths. From the moment she and Luther emerged from the labyrinth carrying Drea's helm, the Scholar's choice had been before her: Leave the truth buried in the darkness, or seek it out alone and ultimately submit to the same fate.

Eyes closed and head bowed low, Elina's inner submission whispers like a wind across the horizon of her mind. There is only one secret left to keep.

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Slowed down a little in getting here this week as other developments required some time and effort, this one in particular:
Rats in the Cellar, Part 2 on AmazonNow Available at an Amazon Near You
Rats in the Cellar, Part 2 can be purchased at Amazon.com here:
http://www.amazon.com/Demons-Due-Rats-Cellar-Part/dp/1502442280/

As with Rats, Part 1, availability at Amazon.uk will follow soon, while Amazon.ca has yet to carry Rats, Part 1. There are eight bonus images, one of which was inspired/demanded by Tim's narrative (really delicious). At 158 pages, it's thicker than Part 1, too, and full of "naughty bits."
Also Available at an Amazon Near You
Rats in the Cellar, Part 1 can be purchased at Amazon.com here:
http://www.amazon.com/Demons-Due-Rats-Cellar-Part/dp/1500124591
and on Amazon.co.uk here:
http://www

I actually have all of the rest of Bookbinding done through the smudging stage and some through final pencil and into the digital. Nothing to do now but finish and post them all.

Elina was drawn with the awesome reference material provided by Emily at Feathered-pics . Thanks, Emily!

The reference I relied on here is also not currently in Emily's gallery, but it is a good one, and so are those I used for the images to follow.

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
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… .

The next page is here.

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

In the enforced calm of near-total immobility, Elina resists the urge to wriggle hips and fingers or scream in futile exertion through the rope gag. Instead, she allows the Scholarly train of thoughts to guide her mind through the bleak horizon within. There is but one option left to her now, one decision to be made, and sensing it she hangs her head in mingled despair and recognition.

She chose this. In entering the dreaded labyrinth alone to carry out her studies and find the truth of the evils plaguing Dernhem, the disappearances of the High Lady Drea and her sister Avora and a small host of others, Elina had knowingly chosen this end. Luther had opposed it, as would every guardsman of House Vandermoor and her own family line had they been given the choice.

But there really had been no other choice. Knowing now as she did the nature of the enemy assailing them confirmed it. The amount of sorcerous and supernatural power concentrated in the labyrinth and in the personage of the Hellbinder itself would have turned the protective presence of any guards into a liability, resulting in a worthless waste of lives. Among those who opposed it, the Hellbinder would only spare those it wished for further purposes--like herself--and any guards would have certainly accompanied her to their own deaths. From the moment she and Luther emerged from the labyrinth carrying Drea's helm, the Scholar's choice had been before her: Leave the truth buried in the darkness, or seek it out alone and ultimately submit to the same fate.

Eyes closed and head bowed low, Elina's inner submission whispers like a wind across the horizon of her mind. There is only one secret left to keep.

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

Slowed down a little in getting here this week as other developments required some time and effort, this one in particular:
Rats in the Cellar, Part 2 on AmazonNow Available at an Amazon Near You
Rats in the Cellar, Part 2 can be purchased at Amazon.com here:
http://www.amazon.com/Demons-Due-Rats-Cellar-Part/dp/1502442280/

As with Rats, Part 1, availability at Amazon.uk will follow soon, while Amazon.ca has yet to carry Rats, Part 1. There are eight bonus images, one of which was inspired/demanded by Tim's narrative (really delicious). At 158 pages, it's thicker than Part 1, too, and full of "naughty bits."
Also Available at an Amazon Near You
Rats in the Cellar, Part 1 can be purchased at Amazon.com here:
http://www.amazon.com/Demons-Due-Rats-Cellar-Part/dp/1500124591
and on Amazon.co.uk here:
http://www

I actually have all of the rest of Bookbinding done through the smudging stage and some through final pencil and into the digital. Nothing to do now but finish and post them all.

Elina was drawn with the awesome reference material provided by Emily at Feathered-pics . Thanks, Emily!

The reference I relied on here is also not currently in Emily's gallery, but it is a good one, and so are those I used for the images to follow.

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.