2023-05-30 3:17:50 ¶ ●

> If what you feel is new,
> That’s just first bloom
> (Who are you? Where are you growing to?)
> As you inch towards the clues
> Bless whatever brings you here and to…

this started off as a quick companion sketch for my Nona (& Friends) playlist, but of course became something much more involved. If she’d had a portable tape player, I feel like Nona might have taken some moments to relax like this.

(fanart for the book Nona the Ninth, from Tamsyn Muir’s The Locked Tomb series)