Content Warning: sexual assault reference in the on-going story text.

Sorry this week's entry is a day late! I had D&D last night, which took up some time, but what really postponed this was the fact that I wanted to color in the illustration before posting. I'm so glad I did, too, because it came out looking much nicer than I thought it would despite being a fairly simple enterprise!

This week's entry continues to revolve around the Chakraborty clan, exposing the secrets of Chiara Nave Chakraborty, the upstart who married into the family. She had a pretty rough start to life before coming to Atasiar, one she kept carefully hidden not only to strangers but to her nearest and dearest.

With this entry, too, I wanted to emphasize how even tho Atasiar is a pretty good place to live, other places are most assuredly not. Chiara came from one of those places, that I envision as a cult-like flotilla of its own, with rampant abuses. This is a concept I'd like to explore further in future installments, if obliquely given that the focus is my own floating city, which would never tolerate this kind of evil. I also wanted Chiara's rescuer to be completely unromantic, just a dude who was moved by compassion and, perhaps, a little madness at the loss of his own family, to take on the responsibility of caring for three children in desperate need.

This entry is my tiny little homage to Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series. The name of the boat is written towards the back of the ship, so isn't on the page here, but I wanted to depict the Gideone as a tidy, medium-sized ship that carries goods from port to port, with living quarters for a small family.  Cara and Clemente have fond memories of the ship where they grew up, and keep it well maintained. The theft of this ship would greatly enrage the Chakraborty clan in general, even those not of the Nave branch, a plot hook that could be used by a GM wishing to involve more of, or even unify the clan in their story.

Alright, that's it for this week! Hopefully, I'll have more time to color in next week's illustration so I can get that entry posted in a more timely fashion.