Bloody Atos and some new art

The bunglers at the Department of Work and Pensions put me through a massive amount of stress relating to this assessment about my benefits, destroying my hopes of susccessfully completeing NaNoWriMo on time, and then bungled my appointment.

 We get to the Atos office, and because they lost my paperwork, my appointment had been cancelled.This was an extra stress I wasn't in need of, let me tell you.

 Apparently, they go through 280 cases a day when they organise these things and they lose 6-8 in the process.

 Well, enough of that.

 Lately I've been working on a Game of Thrones fan art starring Jon Snow, and by lately I mean 'I started it yesterday afternoon and have gotten frightfully far in the last 24 hours'. That happens sometime.

 So, beloved readers, here's a sneak peek of my Game of Thrones fan art:

 Or should I say, Game of Thrones/Channel 4 crossover fan art?

 :D

 I blame Anna, I tell her about this joke Sips and Sjin made on their Tekkit series, and she enables me to do this. It's terrible, really, how could she?

 NaNoWriMo word count: 15, 365

 Silver Crosses overall word count: 21, 792

Another Silver Crosses preview!

 I have worked on Rarity a little more, but I think I'm going to give her another bake and have a break for a while. Work on something else for a little while.

 In the meantime, however, here's a short extract from Silver Crosses (which is at 4,267 words, at the moment):

 Mel has finally gotten out of the wheelchair and is being taken to meet the Lycan and Vampire council in her new home, she's a little unsteady on her feet.

  “I’ve got an idea. Sit down for a sec.” He steered her to a chair and sat her down.

 “Mom always said I had magic hands, let’s see if I’ve still got it,” he winked before carefully started massaging some of the life back into her legs.

 “I’m not sure this is helping, but damn, you’ve still got it.”

 Josh just beamed as the door opened.

 “Joshua, really? The woman is only just out of a wheelchair.”

 Mel and Josh jumped.

 A tall woman (5’11”) in a figure hugging (curvy, 11 and a half stone) black dress watched them as she leaned in the doorway, one dark eyebrow raised.

 “Um, hey Lucy,” Josh smiled, looking innocent but not letting go of Mel’s leg.

 ‘Lucy’ rolled her eyes and walked over to them.

 Mel took a few deep breaths, for all the mental preparation she had done, she was still a little nervous being around vampires.

 “Hello,” she said with a warm smile and soft Italian accent, “and welcome to our community. I am Lucretia Orbel, I vice-chair the vampire council.”

 “Oh, nice to meet- oh!” Mel groaned as Josh massaged the sensitive spot at the back of her knee, “Josh!”

 “Come now, Joshua, we are trying to have a conversation. If you insist on seducing the poor woman, can you not do it now?” Lucretia asked with an exasperated tone.

 “I’m not trying to seduce her!”

 Lucretia put her hands on her hips and raised her eyebrow again, “please, do not try to fool me in these matters, especially since you know I am fully aware of your tactics when it comes to seducing somebody.”

 It was Mel’s turn to raise her eyebrow at Josh.

 He coughed and let go of Mel’s leg, standing up.

 I might try to do some character sketches tomorrow, so hopefully I'll have something to show you!