Finally. Her head felt so much better now she could hardly believe it. Standing there, amidst the corpses of fifty or so slaughtered bandits, mages, and rogues, she felt the curtain of discomfort lift from behind her eyes and the world come in to sharp focus. Perhaps it was just her berserker rage dissipating, but she really felt clear headed. Of course, who wouldn’t feel clear headed drenched in blood, axe still humming from cleaving through the spines of her enemies? No one she knew, that’s for certain. None of the witch’s poultices or concoctions or potions had the same affect. She didn’t know a single thing in all the multiverse that she found more relaxing than the wholesale murder of bad guys. And, sometimes, good guys. Depends on who’s paying. Mostly bad guys though. She didn’t always feel good about storming into a monastery and killing a bunch of priests or monks or whatever, unless they were those monks that could fight. She had to admit that she did enjoy that. Taking the head off a man who is trying to fight you with his bare hands and crazy dancing with an axe was just too wonderful.
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With the sun already well past its peak in the sky, Albert knew he only had a few hours to finish his project and get back into the safehouse before dark. Autumn’s colors inspired him like no other time of the year did. Green in summer and spring and gray in winter could never quite compete with the myriad colors vying for your attention during autumn. Reds and yellows and oranges, crystal clear blue in the sky, green on evergreens singing counterpoint to the deciduous trees; nature was a magnificent symphony of hues and brisk, clear mornings during summer’s wane. His paintbrush caressed his improvised canvas, globbing on thick mounds of paint, building texture and harmony into his tiny window on how he wished things could be again. At moments like this, he could almost imagine that all the carnage and death of the last 15 months had never happened, that the world was safe and the nighttime didn’t mean doom. But those thoughts could wait. Now he needed only focus on capturing the tapestry of tint before him. Color’s absence in the safehouse was sorely felt. He needed to bring it back with him, even if it was just a little bit.