==COMPLETED==
"I don't need a man to take care of me,"
With a big smirk on my face I speak out the last bit of my sentence. "I am the man."
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The kingdoms of Orena are starting to see hard times. They've started to slowly get...
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I knew it!
Relief and calmness goes through my body, happy that the note-mystery has finally been solved.
But still, what a dick Ascian is.
He must have felt bored or some shit.
I put the note on my table and sat down on my chair. I look around my table, bored and thoughtful.
What should I do now? I'm off duty, but still have to stay at the castle if something suddenly happens...
I guess I could try painting?
That's something I do rarely, but at the same time it's one of the most soothing things I've done.
When I succeed at it, I mean...
I get up and go to my bed, getting on my knees. I reach my hand under my bed, finding the handle of the box I was looking for. I pull out the case that has all my paints. At the same time I pull out the easel I need.
Putting everything on their places, paints on the table and easel straight to keep the canvas up in front of me.
I look at the white canvas for a little while, thinking about what I could try to paint.
I've probably never painted much or at all with red and the other darker shades of it, the colors reminding me too much of blood. I really want to keep those memories out of my painting sessions.
After some thought, an idea pops up in my head.
I start with the base color, a greyish day with a little sun peeking through the clouds. Some mountains in the back, some containing snow and some only dark blue from the distance it has in the picture. When I get done with them, a few hours have already passed.
At some point I went to get some food, but quickly continued.
Now I got stopped by a needed bathroom break, but got back to work immediately.
For a few minutes, I forgot the picture I had in mind. I go through some other options but get back to the original idea, when it pops up again.
I painted a big field with flowers. Sunflowers to be exact. The field reaches far away, only a small pine tree forest stopping it from reaching the high blue mountains, but even the pine trees have to stop their reach for the tops.
There's a few other plants and flowers together with the sunflowers, but they don't take as much attention as the grey day with the yellow and orange-ish flowers.
By the time I get done with that, my legs are hurting and burning, standing still for too long.
I take a step back to look at the whole picture.
I'm not the best artist, but I can paint some. I'm pretty proud of this one, even close up it doesn't look horrible like some of my other works do. Though it definitely looks best from a little afar, the mistakes and colors blend together.
