"Just imagine, Alan! We are the first in thousands of years to see inside the tomb of the All-Loving Queen, Uzima!" said Dr Jonas Chumbley, wolf hunk and archeologist extraordinaire.

"Nice to be first to something, Dr Chumbley," answered his grad student, Alan Tremarco. "I just wish we had flashlights instead of these torches. I can barely see ten feet in front of me."

"Oh, I'm sure Maeve will be back with new flashlights soon! We shouldn't let it stop us from taking a preliminary peek around."

The light of Dr Chumbley's torch caught some carvings on the wall and he turned to study them. Thus distracted, he didn't notice Alan falling through a trap door that went unnoticed due to the poor lighting provided by the torches.

"I do believe that larger carving is a depiction of the All-Loving Queen," Dr Chumbley said. "The crown next to her indicates the speaker, or probably dictate-or ha!, is royalty. The rest of the message, I'm less sure about. Ancient Dunian can be hard to interpret, as you well know!"

Dr Chumbley didn't hear a response from Alan but he heard shuffling outside the torchlight.

He must be studying other carvings, Dr Chumbley thought. So he happily kept talking.

"Historians initially interpreted Uzima's title of All-Loving Queen as a reflection of her magnanimous and benevolent nature but recent findings indicate that it would be better translated as All-Married. Accounts were discovered claiming that after having a marriage proposal to a neighboring king rejected, Uzima declared all men in the world were her husbands. Then she invaded her neighbor under the pretext of breach of spousal duties! Quite a character, Queen Uzima!"

In the darkness of the tomb, something lurched towards Dr Chumbley, stretching out one grasping and bandaged hand.

Perhaps it was Maeve, about to pull the best prank of her life.

But perhaps, instead, it was an ancient queen, sensing prime husband material in the wolf archeologist.

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Day 24 of the 30 day art challenge.

Darkness.

Uh oh, another one where a character got a prompt because a character gotta go in the prompt. But at the least when I got to Darkness, Jonas seemed like a fitting character given all the ancient structures he's always digging up.

And it could have just been him lighting a dark tomb with a torch but I wanted to add a little something extra. Not least of which is because I wasn't really sure how to do good shadows with graphite and have no experience in working with lighting.

So I wanted something in the darkness. Because, I could have just had someone lying in bed with the lights off and it'd be darkness but the spooky season is almost upon us. There's something in the darkness. Some unknown thing lurking and espying our clueless archeologist wuff.

And then I threw in some wall carvings so Jonas would have something to be distracted by.

I wanted to fill up the whole wall with carvings but honestly I used up my creativity coming up with just two lines of ancient queen posting horny on main.

The whole wall? C'mon.

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Jonas Chumbley owned by me
Art by me, for a change
Done as part of Jyinxx's 30-Day Art Challenge.