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Past a chamber filled with broken inn furnishings, clothing, and discarded detritus, the figure shambles into a room filled with deceptive death, where the corpses of once-living people hang in cocooning cords now super-saturated with the non-life energy of Demon sorcery. Ignoring the trophies of recent captures in the near corner, the charred hulk rears up on ruined knees and raises its claw-like hands into the stale air of the chamber. "Velsi Alzaro Venix," the figure speaks aloud through lungs and throat that are little more than brittle sack and straw, but the words ring with the power of sorcery programmed into the chamber itself, and the whole scene of shadow and stone echoes the call with a single, building note.

Then, heralded by the shivering sound of sandpaper and the flutter of moth wings, clouds of dust, hair, rope, and bone fragments break off of the assembly of un-life hanging from the ceiling and drift downward in a whirlpool to merge with the charred figure. The thing buckles and twists, bubbles of newly-formed tissue spreading over limb and abdomen, all wrapped in layer upon layer of rope dripping with magic. "The Bookbinding is broken," the figure speaks again through lungs and throat made strong and new. "The Binding can now begin."

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I guess it's time to let the cat out of the bag, that the Hellbinder is finally in town. faile35.deviantart.com/art/Upc… . I had a lot of fun with this one, and there's not really even a beautiful woman in it. Now, it's time to catch some glimpses of the past seven chapters from a rather different point of view...

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.