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[searingedgelord]

Who: Anyone
Where: Around the hotel
When: Day 47, late morning/early afternoon

[Seems like a nice day for memory broadcasts]

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[artisticliberty]

[his hands hang uselessly in his lap, fingers clenching the fabric of his kimono]

... would you like to come back to Taisho with me? There is something I wish to show you.

[criminaljustice]

[blinks, seeming to refocus and relax a little at the topic change.]

Yes, of course. I'd like to see it.

[not sure what "it" is but...]

[artisticliberty]

[rises]

It's several things, actually. Follow me.

[he heads to the elevator]

[criminaljustice]

["several things"...

but getting up and following after him easily.]

[artisticliberty]

[once they're in taisho's dorm, fox heads to his room and comes back out after a moment with a few books in hand, and he sits down at the low table with them, and gestures for boss to sit next to him.

hanging on the wall next to the table is a painting: all the current members of taisho, and a little girl sitting in the middle. it looks like a family portrait.]

[criminaljustice]

[... awk when you came in late for your own team's family bonding experience.

but he sits next to Fox, looking curiously between him and the books.]

[artisticliberty]

[they are... art books! the big thin ones with lots of pictures in them. fox opens one up and starts flipping through it]

I have been doing some reading on the history of art. After a certain point, I cannot find anything recent--but there is plenty to learn beyond that, thankfully. Just looking at these pictures fills me with intense emotions, some of which I cannot understand. Sometimes they fill me with sadness and sorrow, and sometimes they fill me with joy and wonder. And there are some that feel... mysterious, as though there is something unknown hidden in the depths of the painting that I cannot yet see. But it is important, I think, that art makes me feel something.

[he pauses at a centerfold page of van gogh's starry night.]

... I thought that, perhaps, if you could see something beautiful, it might help you.

[criminaljustice]

[he wasn't really sure where Fox was going with this but then the picture of the painting... and the explanation... and...

...

oh wow.

was not expecting to feel a little punched in the gut of feelings??? for seemingly no reason??? it's just... a painting.

but he's still going to hesitantly reach out to let his fingers trace the various whirls in the brushstrokes that make up the sky.]

... it's lovely.

[artisticliberty]

[fox... sparkles a little]

I thought so, too. I find myself moved by nearly all of Van Gogh's art; it's truly inspiring. Of all the Impressionists, his work is by far the most beautiful, I think.

[criminaljustice]

I don't really know much about art.

[artisticliberty]

Would you like to learn a thing or two?

[criminaljustice]

[... the dere is so strong rn.]

I'd love to.

[artisticliberty]

[>will you spend the afternoon looking at pretty pictures and listening to fox ramble about art?

yes/no]

[criminaljustice]

[>YES]