Illustrations, no. 1 (First of a Series)

I have drawn a number of illustrations for the Ki'shto'ba series, and the latest and best (in my opinion) are the ones for "The War of the Stolen Mother."  I originally intended to use them as illustrations in the books (this was in my days of thinking I would publish professionally), but I think it would make the CreateSpace books more expensive to include colored images.  So I'm going to begin running them as a series here, about two a week.  Today, I'm beginning with the original version of the cover, as it was before I adapted it.  My original intention was to use this as a frontispiece.