Chapter 23 art for Voyagers of Time and Shadow!
This amazing art by @giselsann-opencommissions I'm so excited to continue getting art for this series! If you've read it let me know which scenes you'd like to see! :)
I know it's been awhile since I posted a chapter. I've hit writers block on how I want to wrap it up so I'm not exactly where I want to be. I do want to get it done so it's just a massive WIP. Please send any encouragement here or on the story via comments!
Here’s an excerpt from the chapter where we have art featured:
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Evie stands in her Room of Requirement, staring at the remains of the life she lost. Sebastian remains by her side, his thumb stroking along her knuckles in silent comfort. This is the first time she’s sharing this room with anyone other than him. She'd almost hoped not to come back here till they returned to 1891. She wanted to come back to this place as her haven, not what feels like a temple to what was lost. Ginny, Luna, and Neville were shocked by their story when they finally shared it, but believed them. Ginny’s first question was if they could come here and see it. Evie had no reason to refuse the request. So here they are.
Hermione browses through a stack of worn books, her forehead creased in concentration. Evie isn’t even sure which specific tomes she had left up here. She doesn’t remember anymore. Were her school books left behind or was it another thing she was researching that the room gave to her? Sometimes things would appear without her even knowing and she'd find them later.
Harry and Ron are checking out the brooms she’d left tucked away in the corner, whispering about the chances they still fly. Each one of them she bought either from Albie Weeks or one of the other vendors she found in the Highlands. Imelda always looked them over for her when she brought them back to the castle. Evie took great care of them, cleaning them after she came back from her adventures. As a result, they’re all in pristine shape.
Luna is gazing into the empty Vivarium in the center of the main floor, the sunshine reflecting off her pale hair. She looks thoughtful like she might be remembering something. Evie wishes that the animals would be inside so she would really have something to show her. She thinks Luna would enjoy the vivarium’s the way Evie kept them back in her own time. She thinks Luna would have been friends with Poppy.
Neville is at Evie’s weathered Herbology Station with Ginny, thumbing through the seeds that still reside in bags on the worn wooden cups beside it. Things she'd bought at the Magic Neep. He’s pointing out what each of them are to her and she’s nodding along attentively. Evie hasn’t seen Neville so animated about anything before. It’s clear he’s very passionate about Herbology.
“This room is so amazing,” Ginny murmurs in awe as she basks in the sunshine filtering through the glass ceiling. Her red hair glints like firelight. This room is so different than the one they used for the DA. Evie is glad that at least she can show them the other side of this room. It can be anything that you need it to be, you just have to know what to ask for.
“It’s lifesaving,” Evie agrees with a small smile. This place was a safe haven, a lifeline for Evelyn in her dangerous situation. “Especially with the Floo Flame that was present in the room. They once were all over the castle. There were many nights well after curfew when I was outside the castle doing things and I came back here to rest or catch up on homework. It made it easy sneaking in and out with that.” Evie mopped up plenty of injuries in here with the help of Deek. She would have been in trouble had she gone back to her dorm. She didn't want to concern her roommates. They did enough keeping quiet that she was gone all the time. Deek always did such a great job taking care of her and he never told a soul. She trusted him more than almost anyone.
“And you never knew?” Ron glances at Sebastian, leaving Evie’s Silver Arrow broomstick on the top shelf where he found it. That was her favored broom and he was very interested in it. “That she did everything that she did?”
“I knew she left the castle frequently…but no. I didn’t know everything she got up to out there. I was busy looking for a cure for my sister, and she was very good at keep secrets,” he gives her a playfully annoyed look. “If I did…”
Evie rolls her eyes and pushes him away from her. “You couldn’t have done anything Sallow. More than likely you’d have been by my side, just as bloody or dirty from whatever I had been doing, before I escaped to this room.”
“Sounds about right,” he agrees with a devilish grin. They both know if Evie had come to him, ready to take out a group of loyalists or whatever her mission was, he’d have grabbed his wand and charged ahead without a second thought. They both like to fight too much, relished in it even. They both lived for the thrill of danger. Ominis was the voice of reason in their trio. Merlin, what she wouldn't give to have him by their side. Maybe they'd have already gone home if he was here to help guide them.
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