Infected by Art Book - Volume 11

From the time she could hold a pencil, Alana would create fantastic creatures in the margins of books, on napkins, and even carved into living wood. These demons didn’t just occupy her thoughts; they kept her company. With her family ever on the move, the illustrations that unfolded in pencil upon her leaves were her constant companions, for good or ill. 

For while the creatures were sometimes friendly, with compassion in their claws and feeling in their fangs, at other times they were anything but. They were sometimes haunting, terrifying, and even maddening, like toothy shapes at the edges of your peripheral vision, but they and their milder brethren had one thing in common.

They couldn’t draw themselves and they needed to exist.

Thus Alana has found that her soul rests with art, from her earliest days in Montessori, surrounded by understanding souls and speaking to rats in eldritch tongues, to the harrowing time when the demons briefly brought her to a boarding school for wayward children. To do anything but art is monstrous, unfulfilling torture.

Alana’s creations, her things that need to exist, relentlessly pursue their goals, regardless of the obstacles. They fall in love quickly and easily, but they have to eat their loved ones to be truly satisfied in the e