Cottage~
Bethan Gruder
The Haven
Elfmoon, 4417
Bethan painted Lord Micah first. Naturally, his portrait took the longest. Learning to coax a sketch into breathing with the colors of life required extraordinary patience. Paints and canvas, now plentiful at the Haven, allowed her to give each portrait a life of its own. She brought the images from her mind into being as surely as if she’d given birth to them.
The more care she put into a portrait, the more it responded to her. Each of her creations retained its bond with her, a bond not broken by time or distance.
Bethan set down her brush and rubbed her hands together until feeling returned to her fingers. The old cottage’s fireplace offered too little warmth now that an Iron Mountains autumn had succumbed to the winds of winter. She
