This week's guest art is by Vietnamese illustrator JingleJude, who's previously done the art for the Weird Luck prequel tales Ethan Rex and the Ghostly Abbot, The Misfortune of Monsieur Dimanche, and A Death-Priestess Walks Into a Pub.

With this piece, Jude once again takes us down memory lane with a heartwarming scene of bonding between a much younger Mariel and her erstwhile occultist mentor Madeline de Verninac (who features in two of the aforementioned prequel tales). Is Madeline just examining those mystical glowing runes on Mariel's body, or is she activating them? Either way, we're sure that the whole thing is completely consensual and that Mariel's well-being is Madeline's top priority.

You can find more amazing art by Jude on Instagram, and buy prints of their work here. They've also done covers for two story anthologies edited by Nicky, Spoon Knife 8 and Spoon Knife 10.

We'll see Jude's beautiful art and Madeline's morally questionable escapades on this site again between Volumes Two and Three, in the prequel tale Tomb of the Death-Priestess!

And as we count down to the December 3rd launch of Chapter 2.3, we'd like to encourage all our beloved readers to join the Weird Luck Patreon. It's free! (You have the option of paying $3 or $5 per month if you want, and we sure will appreciate it, but free members do get access to all the same material as paying members.) Patreon members get notified by email as soon as a new page goes live—and you won't wan't to miss a single page of this next chapter, in which we learn the strange origin of the city of Tal Sharnis!