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For the Lotrips100 Show-Don’t-Tell Challenge
Vig/Bean, PG

Maybe a little more green. Fuck, wrong shade. Mix in more yellow. That’s better. Closer to it, anyhow. How do you paint the aura? Make it visible? Or maybe a texture? Don’t know. He won’t understand anyhow.

Viggo throws his palette against the canvas, then stops and looks.

Maybe that. Maybe he’ll understand that. Anger and fear and frustration. All evident with the splash and the smears on the paint. Paint the color of his eyes.

Yeah. Maybe he would understand that.

Viggo sighs. Maybe he would, having been an artist himself. Or maybe he’d see a small trapped animal.