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Enter the NightsideWe found the time slip where the bastard had gone through to escape us. We didn’t know what awaited us as we stepped through, but we were on a hunt and would not be frightened or deterred. My stomach flipped uncomfortably for the few seconds it took the time slip to spit us out onto a darkly paved street.

We immediately stood and gathered our bearings. My first, Harvard checked his watch and shook his head. I knew our tracking equipment wouldn’t work considering it usually didn’t when we entered other worlds. We checked to make sure our emergency doors were still active, the little inch and a half cylinders that were attached

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The heavy oaken door was reinforced with heavy bands of black iron. It must have weighed five hundred pounds, easy. It didn't even slow Jessica down. Her thunderous feet marched right up to the door, then her fingers plunged through the thick wood and tore it like cloth. The whole door came apart in her hands, and she walked through it like a hanging curtain. She came striding down the aisle towards me, naked and emaciated and corpse pale, the heavy flagstones exploding under the tread of her bare feet. Her eyes were wide and staring, as focussed as a feral cat's, and as impersonal. Her thin lips were stretched wide in something that was as much a snarl as a smile. She had no hair, her face was as drawn and gaunt as the rest of her, and her eyes were yellow as urine. But there was a force to her, a terrible energy that drove her on even as it ate her up. I held my ground, giving her back glare for glare, until finally she crashed to a halt right in front of me. She smelled... bad, like something that had spoiled. Her eyes didn't blink, and her breathing was unsteady, as though it was something she had to keep reminding herself to do. She was hardly five feet tall, but she seemed to tower over me. I could feel my thoughts and plans disintegrating in my head, blown away by the sheer force of her presence. I made myself smile at her.

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"What happened to you, Jessica?"

"I don't know, any more. That was the point. My past was so appalling, I had to make myself forget it, had to make it unreal, had to make it never have happened. But in doing that I lost my faith in reality, or it lost faith in me, and now I only exist through a constant effort of will. If I ever stop concentrating, I'll be the one to disappear. I've been alone for so long, surrounded by shadows and whispers that mean nothing, nothing at all. Sometimes I pretend, just to have someone to talk to, but I know it's not real... But now I have my bear. A comfort, and a reminder. Of who and what I was." She smiled down at the battered old bear in her stick-thin arms. "I've enjoyed our little chat, John Taylor. Made possible by this place, and this moment. Don't ever try this again. I wouldn't know you. Wouldn't remember you. Wouldn't be safe."

"Remember the bear," I said. "Just maybe, it can lead you home."

-Agents of Light and Darkness, Simon R. Green

Jessica Sorrow the Unbeliever, of the Nightside series. If she decides she doesn't believe in something, it pops out of existence. And her teddy bear.

Sketched, inked with Micron .02, colored and added a background in PS7.

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~Saphitstrue Mar 3, 2011 Hobbyist

i love it.. somehow i feel so sorry for jessica..
anyways great drawing^^ and great book of course

~veridical-dream Oct 11, 2010

really nice!
She is one of my fave female characters beside Suzie

~VernumKinefellow Aug 12, 2010

This is awesome.

~LuvZ-Art May 28, 2010

this is great!!!!

~saphirefox Jan 19, 2010 General Artist

Really cool picture. I like the way everything is disapearing behind her. I think her legs are a bit too long for the rest of her body, don't know if that was intentional or not but great job, she looks really creepy and the bear is cute.

~BatNeko Jan 16, 2010 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I love Jessica!

~DarkroomDilation Apr 15, 2009 Photographer

Wonderful! I'm a Nightside fan myself. I've never seen anyone attempt her before. Well done and good concept. I like that you included the bear.

~lassenissen Sep 19, 2008

Fantastic! After i read about her in the book i got really eager to draw her too. You and i have very similar thoughts on how she looks (she is described in detail but still..).

Im faving this, not just because its a great piece, but also because youre obviously a fellow fan of the Nightside series.

~sithwitch13 Sep 25, 2008

Sorry for the delay--hurricane. Thank you for the comments! And thanks for the fave. I absolutely adore Simon R. Green's character descriptions, so I'm not surprised that other people get a similar mental picture to me with some of the stuff.

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