LOVE ME LIKE A CURSE
“So this is it. The work everyone has been whispering about.”
“Druvien,” he said, “tell me what you see.”
Druvien Mal’Serak leaned forward, fingertips brushing the smooth table. His eyes, sharp and calculating, narrowed. “A fragment of a memory,”
strange!
Maelis leaned forward, fingers brushing the table. “Yes. Strange, isn’t it? Not merely the technique—though that alone is remarkable—but the intention that seems embedded within it. It almost… calls to us.”
Valerian tilted his head slightly, gaze never leaving the image. “Calls? It’s a painting. Mortal hands. We are supposed to see it as just that—color, shadow, nothing else, But…” His voice trailed off.