a heart made to be mine

_{"Are you Skilling to one another?" Chade asked testily. I both heard and felt his words.
I took a deeper breath and sank deeper into the Skill.
"Yes,"I breathed. "I can reach him. But only just. And only because we have been Skill-linked before."
     "Would you have more than this?" The Fool's voice was less than a whisper. I discerned a challenge in his words, but could not understand it.
     "Yes, please. Try," I bade him.
     Beside me at the table, I was aware of the Fool making some small movement but my vision was unfocused on the room and I had no warning of his intentions until his hand settled on my wrist. His fingertips unerringly found their own faded gray fingerprints, left on my flesh so many years ago. His touch was gentle, but the sensation was an arrow in my heart. I physically spasmed, a speared fish, and then froze. The Fool ran through my veins, hot as liquor, cold as ice. For a flashing instant, we shared physical awareness. The intensity of it went beyond any joining I'd ever experienced. It was more intimate than a kiss and deeper than a knife thrust, beyond a Skill-link and beyond sexual coupling, even beyond my Wit-bond with Nighteyes. It was not a sharing, it was a becoming. Neither pain nor pleasure could encompass it. Worse, I felt myself turning and opening to it, as if it were my lover's mouth upon mine, yet I did not know if I would devour or be devoured. In another heartbeat, we would be one another, know one another more perfectly than two separate beings ever should.
     He'd know my secret.}


- Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb







Hohoho, I told you there would be more fanart coming. I'm kinda nuts for this series right now.

Fitz and Fool, because they are awesome and filled with emo and win and heartache. GODDAMNIT.

I learned a LOT making this image. A BUNCH of new techniques for watercolor which I hope to improve upon. Therefore, I know there are issues in this image, but I am pleased with it as an experiment and as a finished image for my own lulz. I actually painted this in two days. That's unheard of for me, because my usual technique is really painful and LONG. As in, usually takes me two weeks. Ugh!! Hopefully I can keep it up and improve upon these new techniques.

I'll probably be doing more Hobb fanart soon. Something less emo and with a real BG, perhaps.

title from a Deine Lakaien song~