 Constant Vigilance! O_O AWAKE!
Art to... to make people think? Mamie didn't like that idea. Art was supposed to be fun and lovely, not...thinking. Still, she tried to keep an open mind when Ash passed the drawing over. She looked at the things Ash pointed out, and felt her stomach flip-flop at the reminder of Rosier. Was Ash still stressed about Rosier? The bad man was dead, after all.
She looked at some of the other stressing things, frowning at the names above some of the shadowy people. And the speech bubbles... the speech bubbles weren't surprising. She knew some of the things people said about her friend. She tapped her foot rapidly under the table. She was supposed to say something nice about Ash's art, right? Well... Margaret didn't like it that much. It made her think, sure, but about things she absolutely did not want to think about. And it was confusing, like...why were Upstead and Cambridge's names on there? But she didn't know any technical art words, so she couldn't compliment her friend's skill, either.
But she couldn't tell her she hated it, not when Ash had shown it to her. It felt like reading someone's diary and saying, no I don't like it, your thoughts are bad, or something. And that wasn't right.
So...Margaret kept her mouth shut, and passed the drawing back over. |