chroma | catchall for crow

[countermeasures]

i really need to remember to do visuals this game

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[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.

[countermeasures]

[she nods, and then falls silent as she starts to focus on her painting



it's of a nice chinese manor house in the background. in the foreground, there's a very pretty looking peach tree.]

[chevaliered]

[ crow gives it a glance, before leaving her to it for the moment. he doesn't have much faith in his painting abilities, but he can probably sketch something so...

he will settle down and start on his own doodles. it's nothing neat or perfect, but it does look a little something like this, but in a rougher style. ]

[countermeasures]

[they do art in silence for a little while then!



once they're both about finished up, jiuqing backs away from hers and goes to take a peek at what he made]

That's... Jurai, you said?

[chevaliered]

Yeah. Or... as I remember it. Things looked a little different when I went back a couple of years ago, but this is how I keep seeing it if I think about it.

[countermeasures]

...it looks like a very nice place.

[chevaliered]

[ ... ]

Yeah. It's doing well for itself. Lots of money rolling in and out of the city nowadays.

[countermeasures]

...that sounds like a good thing?

[but that pause before he answered... hm]

[chevaliered]

It's Empire capital. Erebonia peacefully annexed it about ten years ago.

[countermeasures]

[she doesn't know what erebonia is]

Oh...

[chevaliered]

[ he just kinda laughs. ]

Without context, I'm just kinda saying words at you. Don't worry about it. It was my home, and then someone bigger, and more powerful decided they wanted it.