“For all that longing is appeased,
“For all that longing is appeased,there is always more to long for.”
there is always more to long for.”It could have been a day like any of so many that had come before. But it was not.
They were all there, all working, busier than they had ever been, all save Lapaccia.
Yes, busier than they had ever been, but not with projects of their own choosing. The commissions flowed in—portraits and landscapes—enough to last as far as their vision could reach. The original Disciples became the teachers; Carina and Patrizia came to the studio as much as, if not more than, they did. Viviana saw it in their eyes: the desire, the longing, the need to know, to learn, to create. She knew that look, for she had seen it upon her own face for years.
They had done what
