Poking at a badger with a pole is a bad idea. Even if it is a ten-foot pole.

No, the badger doesn't need a reason to be grumpy. He's a badger.

Val seems to be exhausted.

A few days after finding the passage from Val's den to Duravin's valley, Nico and Val are down in Duravin's fields.

The story continues in my Adults Only section.

Or there's the alternative version here in my general directory.

In the Den of Luxury

The first several were inked with a fine point Sharpie because I kept forgetting to buy drawing pens when I was in town.

Drawn in pencil, inked, colored in GIMP, then reworked in GIMP.

To see the next pages go to the Adult section.

If the shelves are close enough she'll be able to do it.

Deep in the cave, string ran out a while back, and something is making light up ahead.

Is the light at the end of the tunnel a monster waiting to eat you?

Shelves like that grow along the edges of pools with stable water levels. If the water level changes, additional rims or shelves can grow.

string or scent

Two Days Later

As the rest, penciled and inked on paper, digitally photographed, then worked on in GIMP.

Nicolas has been having a lot of explaining to do and arguing and such. Those scenes may or may not make it into the final version.

I may need to find a reference for the shadows.

Penciled and inked on paper. Then colored in GIMP.

This is the first page in the story of Nicolas. Once I've gotten the storyline all settled I'll renumber them all properly.