The Paintings

The next time Theta visits Luna's room, he comes across a strange sight. Recently finished paintings hang on her walls. One depicts a grand, majestic staircase, beginning at what seems to be a depiction of Hell, with who is clearly Ayane, clawing her way up, step by step, reaching out in vain for a figure at the top of the steps, shrouded by a halo of light and a depiction of clouds and pearly gates. The sillouhette looks suspiciously like a man with long hair in a hat with a tail. Grubby hands grasp at Ayane, trying to hold her back as feminine figures beyond the gates beckon the man to join them.

The second painting is possibly even more disturbing. It depicts the Renegade, in grand purple, white and yellow robes with a much less autistic stare on his face and a happy smile, his arms linked with a glowing, pregnant Katrienne. A metal crib can be seen on the side of the painting, with the name "Tanya" drawn on it. They stand in a modest stone house clearly in Elvaana. An hourglass on a nearby shelf to Renegade depicts sands just about to run out, with a little fork-tailed imp curled around it, waiting.

A third painting has been affixed to the wall. The background is of two enormous dragons, Bahamut and Tiamat, locked in what is clearly intercourse, though the actual pornographic bits are blocked out by the foreground focus, which seems to be T-69 at a writing desk, blushing as she furiously scrawls with quill and ink. T-33 leans over her chair, arms draped around her neck and their tails intertwined as the saucy woman seems to whisper things to the writer. In the corners of the painting are more... artistic, humanoid (but still dragonic) depictions of Tiamat and Bahamut, in each other's arms or holding Nezumi close. MEANWHILE, a book entitled "50 Scales of Platinum" has been met with immediate outrage (among conversative Nezumi) and love (among their teenage kids) over its controversial depiction of Bahamut as an otherworldly handsome seducer that quells the rage of Tiamat through increasingly kinky sexual practices, dominance/submission, bondage and more (it should be noted it's written in the perspective of Tiamat). It was published by a 'Dagny Snowdragon'. It seems to be encouraging works in the same vein, which are being published with extreme quickness and being gobbled up by teenage ratgirls. Elizabeth surprises you by bringing a copy over, which she said she bought for a lark. She's already arranged for Adenine to give it a dramatic reading, and Liz has bought a sack of corn kernals to salt and roast. Further meanwhile, people have literally been delivering gil to T-69's house in wheelbarrows and you can often hear T-33 cackling over the sound of clinking coins. T-69 herself seems to be simultaneously embarassed and thrilled for unknown reasons.