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Flairé: And can you make another tailored to her?

Storekeep: I certainly can, master. Though I would have thought you’d have enough tiny clothing by now.

Flairé: (laughs) Nah, everyone deserves their own. Yes?

Storekeep: Sure. (smiles)

Leslie: (tugs on Flairé’s sleeve)

Flairé: What is it?

Leslie: It isn’t a bother… is it…?

Flairé: Now don’t you fret your pretty head about that. It’s my present to you.

Leslie: Thank you very much…!

Flairé: No prob. (both leave shop and enter the castle gate; Flairé carrying Leslie’s old clothes) (Flairé: (to guards) Hey, guys!)

EDIT: I made a statue of Leslie in the first panel. You can see it here.

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Leslie: Boats!

Flairé: *nod nod* : )

Leslie: Whoaaa… (seeing the castle)

Flairé: Yep. Do you want to go to the castle first, or see some stuff first?

Leslie: …Can we go to the castle? (Ringkun: Hey, Flairé! – Flairé: Hey…)

Flairé: (kind look) Sure!

Hey, another page! I finished this one early! Like, on Thursday! Lots of shiny-haired people, huh? I especially like Leslie’s hair in the third panel. Do you?

BTW, there are no prizes for spotting cameos, but I do like throwing them in there. And no that’s not Joe on this page. It could be. But it’s not.

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Flairé: So this is the great harbour city of the Lilemlen-

Leslie: The Leellemming? (random guard: Hello, Lord Flairé! Flaire: How’s it going?)

Flairé: Lil-em-len. It means Moon-land. This is not the capital, but it’s close enough.

Leslie: It’s wonderful!

Aaaaaand another page is up. Took a long time to colour. So many decisions to make! Very colourful, I think. The poses of the second three panels took a long time to draw. They were hard. So the guys in the bottom, a lot of them are sailors. The people with dark skin are from the griffonland. The lady in pink is from the Dragonland. But everyone else is Moonlandish. I liked drawing the guards. You have to look kind of closely but their armour is actually somewhat shiny.

I’m completely obsessed with Duruflé’s Messe Cum Jubilo. It’s glorious and gorgeous.

I also downloaded Sphere but haven’t started messing with it yet. Fire Emblem 7.5, here I come. I hope. Coding seems to be very hard. My brother was very frustrated at it this afternoon.

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Leslie: Wow.

Flairé: Nice, huh?

Now we get to see what they were looking at last page! It’s a city! With vastly oversized gates! The ship sailing into harbour has the royal emblem on its sail, sort of. Lilar-Moihh means Sun-path. So, Sunset Harbour, basically. Except more poetic. It’s a city of mostly white stone, but I did do some pale greys. They were too subtle and got washed out, unfortunately.

Today my Mom coloured a unicorn in a colouring book that was lying around. So we were colouring together! Yay!

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Flairé: Anyway, let’s go to the city! You should have a look around now that you’re here.

Leslie (looks at him): O-okay.

(walk hand in hand, birdies)

Sorry for being late today. I didn’t have this one drawn or anything, so I did that as soon as I got home from church and JUST finished. That’s… four hours? Eeek, that’s a bit longer than I wanted to spend on it. But look! It’s incredibly colourful! I decided not to be lame, and put in a background! I wonder what they’re looking at in the last panel?

Oh, and I used some coloured Sharpies for some of the colour this time, and they go down so smoothly it’s incredible. You can see it in two trees and a bush in the first panel!

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Leslie: What is going on?

Flairé: I dunno, but… …you’re here, right?

Leslie: So… do you know Jen?

Flairé: Yeah, of course! D’you think that just because you’ve travelled back in time a few million years that I wouldn’t know my best friend?

Leslie: Even though she’s not actually born yet?

Flairé: Uh, yeah. I guess that would be the case. *THINKING*

Leslie: hahaha (He’s just as odd as Jen said he’d be… but he’s nice and friendly. But how did I get here, and what am I going to do?)

Whoohoo! And it’s time for another page. No background because I still don’t trust myself on ’em.

Leslie politely demands an explanation; Flairé is singularly useless at explaining things in a straightforward fashion. (I think second-to-last panel has him looking very pretty. <3 ) I wonder if he’s acting clueless in order to string the reader along with mystery. …Nah, that can’t be it. He’s just clueless.

Haven’t drawn the next page! I’d better get some done before next week! It’ll be an adventure!

I think his eyes are too light. I’m going to start using the dark green marker for him.

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Flairé: Hey there! How are you?

Leslie: …I…uh…

Flairé: Well, I’m very pleased to see you. Miss Leslie, right?

Leslie: F-flairé…..?

Flairé: That’s right!

Whoo! It seems that Flairé already knows Leslie somehow. How could that be? Oh my dear goodness!

I don’t actually know. Yet. But I always have fun drawing Flairé. Stupidly faint coloured pencil background because I felt pen felt too permanent and I’m not so good at backgrounds yet.

W00t! I broke the 10,000 word mark in the Zela novel! I introduced an awesome new character whom I only vaguely knew before as “that friendly guy” and he had never appeared in text before, just in my head. I named him Tam.

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Leslie: “And what’s that sound? Where is it?”

(walks through the trees until she meets… Flairé! Playing his pipe.)

So Leslie figures out where she is by who she meets. And we introduce a new character. He’s very pretty here. : D

No NNWM words just yet. I have my outline ready to go. I’m going to start on that now, and get maybe the Prologue (again) done before church. I don’t think my previous Prologue is quite bad enough to be scrapped yet, but they say you must start from scratch – punishable by death! So I’ll rewrite it anyway, because my ideas have changed a bit since I last wrote it. The thing is to not let on that they’ve changed, because I liked the effect of the first time. But it means something else now, so I have to reflect that too.

I’m going to try and get a chapter and a bit done today.

I still need a title for the thing! I’d like to call it something like “Adhemlenei: First Blood” or “Beginning of the Fall” or anything with “Sword” in it. Especially anything with “Sword” in it. I have the other three books named, just not the first one!