These look a bit like the kind of roots growing from Tardi’s heels and elbows … minus the washing pegs marking out root regions. This photo from IAP – Institute for Applied Plant Biology

These look a bit like the kind of roots growing from Tardi’s heels and elbows … minus the washing pegs marking out root regions. This photo from IAP – Institute for Applied Plant Biology

Opening a can of worms here, I think. Or I should say I’m opening a kennel of cyber and or robotic dogs? There’s more of the latter in the real world than the former who still appear to be creatures of fantasy.
This image from a site selling actual, friendly, robotic dogs. https://keyirobot.com/blogs/buying-guide/top-5-electronic-dogs-that-are-just-like-the-real-thing? Anyway, they don’t call them robotic dogs, these are electronic dogs.
That’s to distinguish them from the nasty headless robotic dogs that shoot people, the so-called cyber dogs clearing mines, and all the other industrial type jobs they’ve been applied to. Dogs in name and that’s all.
I told you, a can of worms. But the pack below is how I imagined the cyber dogs in this chapter. And they definitely cannot be classed with electronic dogs.

This image is from Live Science … is to help you imagine how the tree bug in Tardi started to grow roots all along his side when he lay in the creek. (Chapter 28)

I’ve been searching a long time for an image that would give me an impression of Silver’s and Argie’s cyber fur. This bit of glass is the closest I’ve come yet. Especially the patch in the lower left corner. Tell me what you think?

Another two short chapters … This image has been made over from something completely different that I have used before … you may even recognize it. The ability to change an image utterly with just a few slide buttons, is a thing I love about the possibilities of even very simple software such as Preview.
The Well …

This illustration from an image service, Pixabay I believe. I’ve had the image in my files for quite a while. I just checked Google image service but no owner came up, just that a fractal process was used to generate it.
It’s called Blueyellowcontours.jpeg. I thought It an appropriate illustration of what Lilly’s “pretty water” might’ve looked like.


This started as a watercolor study of sweet potato leaves and rapidly became a semi-abstract study. I’m sure I don’t know how that happens sometimes.