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Amber's shop

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It was cooler inside, and almost dark after the brightness of the summer street. As her eyes adjusted, Althea saw the place as polished simplicity. The floor was smoothed pine planking. The shelves, too, was simple wood. Amber's goods were arranged on plain squares of deep-hued fabric on the shelves. Some of the more elaborate necklaces were displayed on the walls behind her counter. There were also pottery bowls full of loose wooden beads in every color that wood could be.

Her goods were not just jewelry either. There were simple bowls and platters, carved with rare grace and attention to the grain; wooden goblets that could have honored a king's table; hair combs carved of scented wood. Nothing had been made of pieces fastened together. In each case, shapes have been discovered in the wood and called forth whole, brought to brilliance by carving and polishing. In one case a chair had been created from a huge wood bole; it was unlike any seat Althea had ever seen before, lacking legs but possessing a smoothed hollow that a slight person cold curl into. Ensconced on it, knees folded beside her, feet peeping from beneath the hem of her robe, was Amber.

It jolted Althea that for an instant she had looked right at Amber and not seen her. It was her skin and hair and eyes, she decided. The woman was all the same color, even to her clothing.


I took some obvious artistic liberties, and I did not draw the picture exactly from the scene, but it is a good passage to describe the interior of the shop and the woman in it.

This, as some people may know, is Amber in her wood-carving shop in Bingtown, from Robin Hobb's "Liveship Traders" trilogy. Being that those books are ones of the best I've ever read, I am in the middle of drawing positive boatloads of fanart, both scenes from canon such as this one, and completely degrading, ribald little comics.

That rug is as distasteful a thing as any that she could be associated with. Where is your sense of style, Amber? Get rid of that thing at once.

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GoldenDrago's avatar
beautiful scene and draw, you r tallanted!