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Ara was very excited about her newest piece. It was mostly on a flat wall of rock, with a few dusky oranges and black. Overall it was a most excellent painting of the sunset. She was not normally one for landscapes, but the mood had stricken and who was she to deny it? It was one thing to get stuck grasping for ideas and quite another to ignore ones that came readily to the fore of ones mind.

It was far from finished of course, Ara hated anything with only a couple of colors. It brought back the fear of being colorblind that plagued her as a foal, that she had only accidentally stumbled upon a solution for. It was strange that she was only afflicted in the one eye, but who was she to question the spirits?

"Ah, I think it needs some green or something...maybe I can turn it into a background? Hmm..." she mumbled to herself.

With a shrug, she decided it could wait 'til the morning when she would return with more paint. It was uncomfortable after a while to clench her paintbrushes so firmly in her teeth and annoying to see the teeth marks she left in the handles. It was always such a pain to find more, since she lived nowhere near the Kawani and did not travel that way very often.

Ara returned to her work a few minutes later, musing on what she could turn the admittedly lacking painting into to make it better. Without any ideas forthcoming, she was growing more and more fed up with the thing and debated just giving it up as a loss. That happened much less now than it had when she was young and could not seem to match colors to save her life. Now it only happened when she followed an idea to its end, only to find that the end was at the bottom of a mental cliff.

With a sigh of resignation, she decided it was probably going to be one of those. It wouldn't hurt to stare at it for a while longer though, willing something to come to her if only to not add to her ever growing list of failed projects.

"What are you doing here?" she asked from behind the strange soquili standing in front of her painting when she returned.

It was embarrassing to have anyone view an unfinished piece, much less one she was resigning herself more and more to scrapping.

Ara watched the dark stallion emerge from his hiding place. It was about time, it was rude to hold a conversation when you could see someone but they couldn't see you.

"Well, I kind of can't move this rock without a lot of effort. So, that's one reason its out here. Another is that I don't have anywhere to put it even if I could move it. I have a cave a ways away from here that I stay in when it rains, otherwise I usually sleep where I drop." she answered.

She looked sideways at the rock upon which she had painted a rather bland landscape and finally decided it wasn't worth salvaging. Let someone wonder why there was a sunset painted on a rock. It would be funny.

"I don't think it's running a huge risk of being knocked over either. Besides. I'm not gonna finish it, I decided just now. Not worth it to try to force..." With that she turned from her rock to regard the stallion again. "So, what's your name stranger? Mine's Aresenciel, but you can call me Ara."