Artistic Revelations


Encre stood in front of a blank canvass, thinking about what to paint. An idea soon came to him and he started to plan it out, letting his creativity flow from his skull, down his arms, out his hands and onto the canvass. He first started on the for ground, some bushes, the ground, blue, softly glowing flowers. The ground was a mix of dark blues, greens and glossy reflections of the flowers and what will be the moons light. The brush moved in long and short strokes, years of practice showing its existence though the quality of the work.

An hour passed. Encre worked though the time, painting in a trance. When he finished, he looked to see a painting of the castle at night, the moon behind slightly and the silhouette of a figure on its roof. Encre smiled and set the painting aside to dry. He sat on the sofa of the art room and got his sketch book. He started to just draw a little. As he drew in the book, his mind wandered to his host, Fallacy. 'He was really kind to let me stay here as a resident. Though he's kinda tall, intimidating, strong, kind, attractive, powerful, scary, caring... Wait... Attractive?' Encre stopped drawing to question himself. 'No, I'm not falling for a vampire, even Fallacy, he's their king for Asgores' sake!' He huffed a little, annoyed with himself. He couldn't be falling for a vampire, could he? Encre shook his skull, deciding to get some fresh air.
He went out to the gardens, they where well kept and beautiful. He saw a gardener tending to a rose bush with hedge clippers, cutting off leaves with what looked to be black spots on them. Encre walked over and asked them what they where doing.
"Cutting off infected leaves, the black spots are a fungus which can spread rapidly and stop the plant growing properly. It makes the flowers not develop properly. After finishing up I have to burn the infected leaves and make sure there are no spores on the clippers to prevent the spread"
"It must take a long time, how many gardeners are there."
"10, though about three tend to plants that only bloom in the sunlight. The other seven take care of a section or job. These fungi normally only spread so badly in the spring."
"How big are the gardens?"
"They're pretty big, it takes a while to make sure everything's growing properly, even with 7 of us." The gardener smiled though," we enjoy our job though. Lord Fallacy found most of the servants as children or lost in the forest as adults. Only one was brought here as a baby. He prefers to keep that to himself though."
"Okay, so most people grew up here. Do they enjoy working here?"
"Most of them do, though Suave is probably the workaholic here. He enjoys keeping himself busy with anything; reading, cleaning, cooking, organising. He's good at seeing what people are good at and what they enjoy. He's pretty much the Lords favourite when it comes to serious jobs."
"Seams like a big responsibility, I hope he doesn't overwork himself." He liked Suave, he was good company. The gardener shrugged a little, Suave did sometimes. He finished clipping the plant, he should go dispose of the leaves. He told Encre this and wished him a good day. Encre replied in a similar manner. He walked around the gardens, looking at the plants and talking to the servants in charge of looking after it. One of them showed a patch of blue and purple bioluminescent flowers. They repeated the last words they heard. They where dotted around between light sources for mortals to see by. Eventually, Encre found himself back in his room, smiling a little. He got out his sketchbook to draw one of the special flowers, he also put in a rose bush around it. As he drew, his thoughts wandered back to Fallacy before they could be stopped, he stopped drawing once he realized it. Could he be falling in love? He hadn't had a lover before, he didn't know what it was like. He didn't know, it could just be the sudden change of scenery messing with him.

Eterna punched a wall in anger. How could they let that traitor get away with that parasite. Yes, she was still mad about Suave saving Jasper and getting away, "y-you have t-t-to calm down. W-we can't do a-anything about it." Eterna let out a loud noise of rage. She wanted all those parasitic things dead! Eterna stormed out before the one who spoke earlier, Dr Lofty, could stop her. Lofty sighed, Eterna could be unstoppable sometimes. Eterna ran off to find Asure. That raid was happening sooner rather than later, she'd make sure of it. Asure was with Rufous at the blacksmiths. They had gotten closer already, though they haven't told anyone yet. Asure left the blacksmiths to go to work. Eterna caught him as he left, "Asure! We are going to plan that raid and doing it before the end of the week!!!"
"O-okay? Let's go plan then" they went to the Royal guard's barracks to plan the raid on Lord Fallacy's home. They would burn it to the ground once they killed all the vampires, freed the servants and took captive any traitor's. They planned until it got late, it was almost midnight when Asure went back in without Eterna stopping him. He went home and went to sleep.

Everything in the castle was quiet as servants cleaned, tidied and worked and did their jobs; it wouldn't do to have Fallacy return to a dirty, messy castle. Bon Bon was curious about Suaves odd happiness. He wasn't normally that happy, even though he enjoyed work. She was working with Gazelle to clean the halls. "It's a little odd don't you think?" Bon Bon asked, having just finished telling Gazelle about Suave's slightly odd behavior and mood.
"I agree, I would try to find out what's going on, but he wouldn't tell me anyway. We annoy each other too much."
"Yep, and he wouldn't tell me when I asked. Hang on, you remember that blood moon when everyone got together and most people got drunk during the daylight hours because we didn't have work the next day?"
"Yeah, of course I remember, who could forget when we all managed to get Suave to drink a little too much. Do you think what he said about..." Gazelle paused, looking around a little to make sure no guards would hear, then whispered something, "about liking Jasper that way was true?"
"I think it was, often drunk talk reveals great secrets about people." Bon Bon nodded, whispering back, "and I think the feelings are reciprocated."
" What!? No way!!" Gazelle almost screeched, causing her friend to hush her, nodding.
"Yes way, don't tell anyone this, okay? There was an incident when I tried to flirt with Suave, but Lord Jasper intervened and followed me when I left the room. He told me to leave Suave alone, well, more like threatened."
"Wow, that's crazy, do you think they're a thing now?" Gazelle was thinking of the perfect way to get back at Suave for all the teasing, pranks and other things he'd done. Bon Bon nodded, it would explain Suave's odd behaviour. "Its not right Bon Bon, if other vampires found out, Suave could be hurt or worse. Its best if Lord Fallacy knows when he returns, even if he forces them apart." Bon Bon didn't agree, but didn't say anything, she just huffed slightly and walked away to continue work somewhere else.

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