A Queens Sorrow

Chapter 33: The Beauty Within

Today was a bland day for Heather.

The way she'd usually spend the day. Time in the wilted garden, Reading her favorite books, Scouting around the town for new art, all seemed too monotonous for this day that she's spent locked in her tower.

Her sister still hadn't arrived yet, and although she wished she had someone to spend time with that wasn't her working staff, she would make due with what she had.

Walking over to the her huge closet filled with what seemed to be endless hand sewn dresses and some tshirts and folded pants, heather reached past her wardrobe for her easel and painting instruments. Pulling out her pastels and colored pens, she dragged all of what she needed out onto her onlooking balcony that gazed over all of the kingdom.

She painted her heart onto the pages of that large booklet that hung carelessly over the brown wooden easel. She smiled at the finished product.

The glinting hills that shadowed over the sunset, the mountains that she had once traveled, the thoughts of him still lingering in the back of her mind, brushing that sadness aside, she poured more emotion into the background, the black crows that she had filtered in; with the tip of the pre currled paintbrush.

She would spend the day, painting her emotions onto her pages, displaying all of the past agony and strife into beautiful displays of majesty and purpose, struggle and love, they'd see it all, posted on the art gallery that she so desperately needed to host. And she would as soon as her sister arrived.

Continued in next chapter ❤️