It's your move...

So, what are you waiting for? This is a charming illustration from Edward Runci. The sexy girl has both a look of innocence and seduction in her face. She's carefully placed between the game board and the...fireplace behind her. She is smart, knows all the moves, but she can't play this game alone. She needs company, she needs someone with smart moves of his own, someone who can keep up with her in this ancient power game of strategy and conquest. There she is staring at you with a smile. Are you the man? Are you ready to take control, take command of the board? Take off your shoes, sit comfortably down on the fluffy white rug. Show her what you got. And if you win? What would be the prize?

Runci creates a very provocative, seductive scene here. The leaning position of the attractive young woman's right arm, together with her head tilting to the right, allows the light from the fireplace to silhouette her well rounded breasts, supreme symbol of her femininity. Her facial expression, with the cute smirk, is defiant, yet never angry or menacing. It's not her way to challenge on a man to man basis, but rather wants to push him to play the game in a way that perhaps both will win.

There is a healthy fireplace behind her full of the passions and desires she is trying to hide. Perhaps if her man makes the right move, if his desire to conquer is as strong as her desire to be taken, then they'll both be engulfed by that great, all consuming fire behind them. And it will be a victory for both.