The Little Blue Sapphire and the Hag

An illustration done in the style of a page from a fairy tale depicting the scene where Jester tricks Isharnai the hag into helping them. Jester stands in profile, holding up the cupcake and gripping her holy symbol, smiling but clearly hiding her fear. Isharnai towers over her with her massive twisted form, black hair oily, angular faced with gaunt cheeks and jowls that hang below the line of her jaw, long clawed hands positioned above and below offered pasty still in Jester’s hands like bars to a cage. The text to the bottom right reads:

Jester split the cupcake to share, holding one half up near,

‘Like a blueberry, small and sweet,’ thought the witch, ‘I have nothing to fear!’

But Jester, clever Jester, to the Traveler she bid,

“Why trade my hands to convince her, if she thinks I already did?”