There was a lot of edits on this scene. I forgot Salva’s top knot, necklace, weird arm ribbons and drew the big guy in blue’s tunic on the wrong shoulder a few times. Let me know if you see anything I’ve missed.

The end of Chapter 5-roughly a third of the way through the story. What will the next chapter bring?

Well, now we’re on to Chapter 6 – just under half way through the story. This chapter nearly burnt me out. Chapter 6 will finish in July-ish and then Sunbird will take a break for housekeeping until autumn 2026.

Serenthia’s partly inspired by Naples and that’s VERY obvious in these pages.

The shopkeeper’s character design is inspired by Hades, from the wonderful webcomic Theia Mania by Agnosis: https://theiamania.thecomicseries.com