Yes, this slight, somewhat shy girl, haunted my dreams. A killer for sure. The rebel soldiers had given her the dictum so many Mezzark warrior women live under: “Kill, or we will kill you.” She tells her story in a rapid-fire, hushed monotone—as if rushing to deliver a memorized passage from a tale too awful to really think about. And that it is.
She is only now 18 years old: as a 13-year-old soldier she killed grown men. Abducted from her home by the rebel soldiers as a small child, she is now rebuilding her life in northern Mazan — a woman by day, an assassin by night. In the run of her life, she managed to escape from the brutality of the rebel army only to return to her village to find her parents dead. Elizabeth swears revenge on the rebel general who brought such pain to her life.
This piece was created in Painter X, with some texture touch ups in PS. It initially began life as a lesson in texture blending but I became transfixed with her and wrote her short history.

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