Twisted Plot Revision Page24

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“However, since you’re not here,” Avora says with a smug grin, “and if, as I suspect, you cannot be reached directly in your current whereabouts, then perhaps we can give you a taste of it indirectly.” The black-clad wizardess straightens her arm and levels the wand’s tip at the face of her rival’s image. “It is fitting that the stone and floral sorcery of this encomium of peace meet its antithesis. Even if no shadow mural can be placed before the devoted on their fulfilling pilgrimage, at least if and when they arrive here they will see a blackened, open wound in the core of all that is peaceful and orderly and have cause to wonder.”

“I bear you no malice, Avora,” the phantom image says quietly, almost as if in resignation, but the wand-wielding wizardess smiles more broadly in return.

“Of course not,” she says. “You don’t believe such a thing exists in the peace and plenty of the Harbinger’s embrace. But you will see differently soon. Goodbye, Milady Mitesceru. The conversation has been an unexpected pleasure.”

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This is actually the full version of the image I used for Avora back in the Prologue pages for Rats in the Cellar. I've held on to it for a while, waiting to use it here.

Also, this makes 5 posts in May, and I'm shooting for 33.

Enjoy!

Note: Twisted Plot and Demon's Due are a work of fantasy and fiction. The artist/creator in no way condones this kind of treatment 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.