Mébène's Cove

I have a love/hate relationship ship with it. I grow fond of it after re-reading it again and again, but I think I could improve it.

Ela was crying.

She was just a child, and her world had collapsed. Three days earlier, she had been in her mother's arms, under the large ash tree in their garden. Her mother smiled tenderly at her, telling her that their time had finally come. Soon they would both leave, soon they would return home, they would have enough to eat, and they would never be cold again. For three days, her father had been silent. for three days, her little brother had cried because he wouldn't be going with them.

The first, the one he hoped for, was that the lords had sent the guards after them, either to punish them for the kidnapping or to find and rescue the nobleman they had abducted. The fact that an archer had opened fire on them could have been a mistake, or perhaps the punishment was more important to the soldiers than their rescue.

The second reason was that, somehow, they had discovered Ela's origins. Luggh didn't want to consider the second possibility. That was what had caused Eliyka's death. They would be wanted, the nobles wouldn't leave her alone, and Tarann…

“Dad, Ela called him.

- What is it?

- Were you the one who told Tarann ​​to swap our horses?"

Luggh paused for a moment. Ela's question sounded like an accusation. If the soldiers were after Ela, then exchanging the mounts they had fled on the day before made sense if the goal was to protect her at all costs. He ran a hand through his hair and finally answered.

“No, I didn’t tell him anything.”

Without a word, Lady Valdargent took hold of his hand and examined the wound. Taken aback, Lessendre froze. The heiress's fingers were rough with calluses, but she held his hand with extreme delicacy, as if afraid of worsening his injury.

Also I don't know if I should darkened the necrobinder "skirt". But I want her to be clearly seen on the darker background so it might be a bad idea!

A new page of my sketchbook.

Cernunnos as a Celtic knot.

I entered in the KADOKAWA WORLD MANGA contest in the category "wordless manga".

Here is the result !