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[empyrean_mirror]

Type: Video
Sender ID: paradisea (Kaveh)
To: Public
Subject: !!!
Warnings: ridiculous spousal bragging

[The camera feed opens up to stunning view of an island. The cameraperson is standing near a grotto into which a relatively short waterfall feeds, creating a glittering mist over the pond. It pans, in a hand too excited to hold it entirely steady, over the lush greenery, showing a gently rolling hill that flattens out into a plain. Mehrak can be seen zipping about, scanning the area and placing markers about the island, though what they'll become is anyone's guess.]

Look at this.

[Kaveh's voice is shaking with pure unadulterated glee and maybe a little bit of tears, but he turns the camera until he finds his target--Alhaitham, a distance away, who seems to be communicating something to Mehrak.]

This ridiculous man bought me an island.

[Has your spouse bought you a whole-ass island? no? then kaveh's got the superior husband.]

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[tilfrosset]

[Oh, now she's jealous. No, more like a little envious. What does it feel like to have that passion of inspiration? She can't say she's ever had that moment; she's still trying to find her thing in this world after years of being told what to do and when to do it. That thing is seemingly more difficult to come by than she expected.]

Has it been a long time since you've felt this way?

[empyrean_mirror]

Yes and no. There are things that inspire me in the day to day--sunlight on the water, a bolt of lighting, even the shape of a fallen leaf. But that's not nearly so strong as this.

I don't think I've felt this powerfully about something since the Palace of Alcazarzaray...if I'm honest, I was starting to worry that I wouldn't again.

[Kaveh's fire and passion are not a thing most can strive for. maybe they shouldn't, given what it's cost him. But a feeling like this...he wouldn't trade it for anything.]

[tilfrosset]

The Palace of Alcazarzaray? What's that?

[empyrean_mirror]

Ah! Right, I hadn't mentioned it--My magnum opus.

[Give him a minute, he's waving mehrak over.]

I put...everything I had into the design of the Palace. I wish I had some proper photos of it, but...

[he gets his sketchbook from Mehrak and hands her his phone to record for him, before he flips through to a particular sketch.

Though calling it a sketch is kind of like calling Rembrandt's paintings a "doodle". The palace he's drawn sits nestled within nature, the elegant curved domes mirroring a bud just about to flower, and the palatial gardens spilling over and blending into the natural foliage.]

[tilfrosset]

[Jill is no artist, but she can definitely tell a doodle from a piece someone's put their heart and soul into and what she sees on screen is certainly the latter. She can only imagine what it looks like in person and even then, she's sure her mind is understating things.]

That's beautiful. Do you think you could make something similar here now that you're inspired similarly?

[empyrean_mirror]

Hmm, yes and no?

[Kaveh tilts his head a bit.] Something the scope of the Palace would require a few more materials than I have dubloons for...and there's no need for something that extravagant for just the two of us and Shadowlily.

But if you simply mean something beautiful...yes. Yes, I think I could, here.