Amberle

Medium: Ink

"Once again, great work! She should be making a twentysider debut soon. Thanks again,"
-- the client

You can take the girl away from the gypsies, but you can't take the gypsy out of the girl. Amberle still dresses in the extravagant clothing of her youth. Silk scarves tie her hair, ring her neck, and adorn her waist. Under her yellow embroidered vest she wears a bright red shirt, tucked neatly into tan leather breeches. All this finery, however, cannot compare with what the Gods have given her. Her intense green eyes seem to stare straight into you and take a measure of your soul back to their mistress. When she walks, her hair, bright red with highlights of yellow, seems as if fire spilling down her shoulders and ending at her waist. Her face is deceptively childlike, giving her the eerie quality of great power mixed with innocence. Two daggers are seated neatly on her belt.

Illus. © Eric Pommer, 2002