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Chapter 296 – The Man in the Water

Penulis: Kristina Angels
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Eva’s Point of View

The door clicks softly behind Kristina, and silence returns. The kind that wraps itself around your skin like a damp shawl. Familiar. Too familiar.

I stand there for a long time, still holding the canvas as if it weighs more than it should.

Then I place it by the window, letting the late afternoon sun spill across it. I open the box of paints. The bristles of the brush are soft, untouched. Waiting.

I don’t plan anything. My hands move on their own.

I dip the brush in water, swirl it into pale blue. A whisper of sky appears on the canvas. Then deeper blue, layered over it like memory pressing down on joy.

The sea begins to take shape, stroke by stroke. Wide. Endless. Alive.

I mix in grey now. Not too much. Just enough to show the wind. Just enough to say: this is not paradise. This is a memory of it.

I add the curve of the shoreline next — soft and subtle. The sand is warm beige, with hints of burnt gold. Not perfectly even. No real beach is. I paint it mes
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