Fan art: BATS AND BEES
My first post here! Actually it's THE UNKNOWN SHORE fanart, but since it could be read as Jack & Stephen AU... First one is a scene after the end of book, our two friends Jack and Tobias coming back to Toby's temple of Fame where he breeds bats and bees.
And a more serious drawing of Jack and Toby before they embarked on the voyage of HMS Wager.
THE UNKNOWN SHORE p19:
Tobias was not there, but Jack knew that he would come, and he sat down cautiously on the steps of the temple to wait. He sat down cautiously and with a meek, dutiful expression, because of Tobias' bees; they lived in a row of hives in front of the building and in spite of many sad proofs to the contrary Jack still believed that if he did not provoke them they would not sting him.
Behind him and above his head Tobias' bats scratched and rustled in the darkness of their dome, faintly, shrilly gibbering as they quarrelled among themselves. A steady, good-tempered hum came from the hives, and in the sunlight that now came slanting through the spinney the bees could be seen rising and shooting away with a surprising speed: Jack gazed at them with detached respect, and wondered vaguely what was keeping his friend.
Indeed, this book is cute as hell.
Kuroneko
And a more serious drawing of Jack and Toby before they embarked on the voyage of HMS Wager.
THE UNKNOWN SHORE p19:
Tobias was not there, but Jack knew that he would come, and he sat down cautiously on the steps of the temple to wait. He sat down cautiously and with a meek, dutiful expression, because of Tobias' bees; they lived in a row of hives in front of the building and in spite of many sad proofs to the contrary Jack still believed that if he did not provoke them they would not sting him.
Behind him and above his head Tobias' bats scratched and rustled in the darkness of their dome, faintly, shrilly gibbering as they quarrelled among themselves. A steady, good-tempered hum came from the hives, and in the sunlight that now came slanting through the spinney the bees could be seen rising and shooting away with a surprising speed: Jack gazed at them with detached respect, and wondered vaguely what was keeping his friend.
Indeed, this book is cute as hell.
Kuroneko