Sarah

Happy Halloween!

It was a dusty book with worn edges, title on the front cover printed in a heavy gothic script and embossed with gold foil. A Modern Bestiary for the 20th Century by Professor Hellen Magnus and Doctor Pellinore Warthrop Eddie's hand shot to it immediately, intrigued, and he spent a good few minutes flipping through the pages. He vibrated as he went page by page, eyes scanning over one creature or another. Harpies and gargoyles and sea serpents. He thought of all the Hellfire sessions that would benefit from this book. It really felt like an ancient tome with all of the scientific diagrams and breakdowns of each creature's skeleton, brief summaries of associated myths, and place of origin. [...] Fate was funny that way. And funnier still...when he drew his eyes across the page once again and saw, scribbled in the corner in...colored pencil or crayon...he couldn't say for sure...was your name. "No..." he squinted and pulled the page closer to his face. "Can't be."

Excerpt from AASB Hymn of Heaven: Manticore (with spoilers for Chapter 12: Ab Aeterno)

Art by the most talented and wonderful @disjointed-art

Ok so this is only partly tied to As Above, So Below. The Eddie drawing was a gift for @fracturedarkness from last year. But since we have a reference to this book in AASB, I thought it was only fitting to have a version that included Knight and our babies Cerby and Lucy. And it turned out beyond anything of my wildest dreams.