Tiernan and Rose

I realize it's just a sketch but I wanted to get something up here with the two of them Don't know if I'll finish it but here it is . . . inspired by the story I wrote - Rose Meets TiernanRose watched the hooded and cloaked figure approach as she sat just outside the open door of The Flower Shoppe. It was highly amusing to see someone trying to be inconspicuous in the middle of summer on the empty street. Ravenwood was pretty quiet during the day while all the farmers and tradesmen were working, so a man walking across the street to the brothel in a deep black velvet cloak was anything but hidden.  If the man was trying to keep his visit under wraps he was failing, his wife would get word immediately from anyone who recognized the cloak. Rose shook her head and chuckled, looking over at her bouncer, Ardent. “Married or underage? What’s your wager?”
Ardent snorted and shifted as he looked at the figure, “I wager a full gold sovereign it’s a lad. Big ‘un, but a lad. Married man would’ve come in the back way.”
“I don’t know.” Rose studied the approaching figure closely, “I put my money on a marrie Rose Meets Tiernan Part 2Rose opened her eyes. The sun was nearly behind the Chaos Crown, the high rocky formation that was just west of Ravenwood. It was the reason Ravenwood was where it was, the road had to go around the craggy and sharp formation and this was the spot where three roads met to circle it. She looked over at her client, sleeping quietly and ungracefully sprawled in the bed. The one thing that bothered Rose was that he was thin, even for a healer. There was no such thing as a fat healer, or even a fat wizard, and according to the legends Tiernan was both. But that didn’t mean he had to be close to skeletal. The man was obviously not eating well at all. Rose made a tick on the ledger slate she had on the side table then made her way quietly to the call bell. She pulled the bell in a set pattern, calling for food for three for a client in good standing. The bells would be heard by one of the runners and they’d write down the room it came from and what message the pattern conveyed. It Rose Meets Tiernan Part 3Rose stretched and yawned. She was going to need a little break after this client. She wasn’t sore at all but she was simply worn out. Tiernan finally admitted that he was sated sometime late in the night and had fallen asleep holding her close. Rose had drifted off soon after and slept better than she had in a very long time. Normally she didn’t sleep with a client in her bed for safety reasons, some would try and sneak in an extra if you were caught sleeping and a lot of times they weren’t gentle about it. But she knew Tiernan wouldn’t try anything like that, even when in the throes of passion he was still a gentleman.
Rose shook her head in amusement and got out of bed to ring for breakfast, again for three. She was determined to make sure that Tiernan ate a great deal, though she asked herself why she was so concerned about the well-being of a hunted criminal.
After the message was passed she busied herself getting dressed and preparing for the day. She took
Tiernan is really on the thin side (he hasn't been eating well) but he's not as old as he appears in the main comic He's sixty there, whereas he's only 40 or so in this picture.

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