Back at work on LIQUID FIRE and it’s progressing well. From a recent scene:<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes \u2026 does every tattoo use a brand new needle? For health or something?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery time,\u201d I said. \u201cFor health reasons, of course, but for the art too, and most of all for the magic. You don\u2019t want some scratcher muddling your hide with a worn-out needle filled with stray mana traces it picked up from half a dozen other pigments.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t like scratchers, do you?\u201d She leaned closer to the horn, still not touching it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love my work,\u201d I said, standing, oddly irritated. I sat down on the edge of the butcher\u2019s block, the cabinet to my back. \u201cNo, that\u2019s not it. I care about the people getting tattoos. They\u2019re permanent marks. Every time you pick up the needle, you have to give it your A game.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Onward!<\/p>\n
-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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