karaneses:The portraits took the entire morning and most of the afternoon to finish, by which point
karaneses:The portraits took the entire morning and most of the afternoon to finish, by which point Auruo’s hair had begun to frizz and Petra’s flower had wilted from the ardor of the heat, and they were both stiff and sore and sweaty. But he knew almost immediately that it had been worth it. She bit her lip and traced the curve of his mouth on the page, and her eyes were dancing. “You smiled,” she teased him. “Doesn’t your face hurt?”“My face is fine,” he muttered. “ Geez. How about you be careful, huh? You’re gonna smudge ‘em.”“I am not.”That lousy lovely hypocrite. On the page her own smile was heavy with a secret, with a thousand things unsaid. art by the absolutely incredible @elhuen -- source link