chroma | catchall for crow

[countermeasures]

i really need to remember to do visuals this game

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[countermeasures]

There's certainly no harm in giving it a try. How else are you supposed to discover whether or not you like a hobby?

[chevaliered]

By not being great a drawing!

[ hehe! ]

[countermeasures]

[she giggles]

Well, let's see how not-great we are at this, shall we?

[chevaliered]

Might as well now we’re here. Did anything in particular grab your attention?

[countermeasures]

...to be honest, the paints.

[there are so many colors?? hello??]

[chevaliered]

The paints are what you think of in an art room, huh? Hang on, there'll be some canvases and palettes are here somewhere...

[countermeasures]

They look a bit different from the paints I'm used to, if I'm being honest.

[chevaliered]

...

They don't look too dissimilar to what I'm used to? [ he is gathering the supplies ] What would you expect them to look like?

[countermeasures]

[she holds up a jar of glitter paint]

It's not so... sparkly, in Daxing.

[chevaliered]

None of it? The sparkly stuff's the stuff that stands out the most.

[countermeasures]

Not the paint, no. But there's plenty of gold and jewels, so the paint doesn't really need to be.

[chevaliered]

Ahh. That stuff's expensive as heck... so I guess art makes do another way.

[ tah daaaah. canvases and palettes ]

[countermeasures]

I suppose so...

[time to paint!!]

[chevaliered]

[ crow….. doesn’t actually start, he just watches jiuqing, curiously. ]

What were you going to try to paint?

[countermeasures]

...scenery from my home, I think.

[she does not have pictures of it so she can't just look at it!! but given that this place apparently makes people? forget things? she's just going to be on the safe side.

they probably can't make her forget her home the way they made the invest group forget the library but she's nothing if not overcautious.]

[chevaliered]

... Oh, there's an idea. Wonder if I remember enough about Jurai to paint it.

[ there's a thought and a half. ]

You just feeling homesick, or is something else?

[countermeasures]

I'm a little homesick, yes.

[well

she misses her mom, really... and her friends... and (redacted) but she's mad at him...]

[chevaliered]

[ stay mad at him girl he's a moron. ]

... Yeah. I can understand it. We definitely got taken away from everything really suddenly.

1/2

[countermeasures]

[IF SHE MARRIES HIM IN NEXT WEEK'S UPDATE I WILL SCREAM]

...we did, yes.

[she is very, very quiet for a few long moments.]

2/2

[countermeasures]

[and then she sighs and starts painting.]

...we'll find a way back for sure.

[chevaliered]

[ i have no faith look at the cover. ]

…

Yeah. Can’t really think about it any other way.

[countermeasures]

[I KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO END UP TOGETHER EVENTUALLY I JUST DIDN'T THINK IT WOULD BE SO RUSHED BC THE FIRST 3/4 OF THE SERIES WERE SLOWBURN weeps]

Accepting that we're stuck here would be giving up, I think. And... it's only been a week. It's too soon to do that.

[chevaliered]

[ they slowburned too far from the sun… i’m shaking. ]

Yeah, we have plenty of time. And stubbornness. And extra pairs of feet to do the running around. If we arrived there, there’s going to be a way for us to leave.

[countermeasures]

Exactly.

[jiuqing knows very little about magic and teleportation and whatnot, so she can't help but think of it as a door - and if you can walk in through a door, you ought to be able to walk back out of it.]

[chevaliered]

We just need to figure out how to get around everything. Learn more, and figure out how to use it and get out of here.