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Okay. I know you're not going to want to hear this, but at least let me explain.

I'll start at the end.

I was in the Arcana's home-base-slash-library. The stuffy arrogant wizard assholes call it the Athanaeum.

Speaking of which, you remember Azrael, of course.

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Sunllight spilled through the high windows of the wood-and-marble hallway of the Athanaeum as Azrael, a formal robe thrown over her standard white pantsuit, hustled down it. Arriving at a large wooden door, she pounded on it with her fist. "Stoneweaver! We have something important to discuss!"

There was no answer. Azrael leaned her face closer to the door and hissed "it's me. Azrael of the Firmament. This threatens both of us! It is in your own interest to open this door!"

Nothing.

Azrael sighed, lowering her fist.

"I need your help. Please."

The great door opened inward, pulled by a three-fingered sky-blue claw, wrapped in rags. "Given where we are, how ironic that we so rarely hear the magic word," a gravelly voice emerged from within.

Published On: September 23, 2026

The Magic Word

And we’re back! I meant to take July off for Artfight, and that turned into August as well, for commissions and also this:

It’s still in the proofing stage, or more properly the Stop Encoding Your PDF In Creative Ways And Please Just Do As We Asked Sir stage. You’d think I wouldn’t run into things like that since I do this for my job. But it’s a book! That I made!

Now that we’re in the second half I’ve removed inDesign from my process, going from Procreate to Affinity Designer to Affinity Publisher to output. We’ll see how that ends up for the second book, off in the far-flung future.

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