Deep into the Infinite Stair

[Ebiris]

She puts her hand on the orb and thinks seriously about painting. About carefully considering the scene and the composition, posing her model, selecting the right props, reading the expression and understanding the emotion of her subject. All that before she puts brush to canvas and with confident strokes captures the image of Marie for posterity.

[17:54] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+16 cha
[17:54] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 22 > [d20=6]

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+9
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 17 > [d20=8]

Jessica is silent as you don't get the memories this time. "Sister?" Jessica says. "I got them this time. All of painting, though one I'm not sure was something that happened."

[Ebiris]

"Were all of them me?" Alicia asks. "I was thinking about painting Marie in particular, back when she was still a coure." Marie inside the classical fruitbowl made for an amusing and rather cute picture, her tiny figure surrounded by comparatively gigantic produce.

[Anastasia]

"Yes," Jessica agrees, "All of them were of you."

[Ebiris]

"So properly losing in the war of focus rather than yielding seems to ensure you get memories relating to the other person rather than extra ones filled in from elsewhere... what was the one you think never actually happened, then?" she asks.

[Anastasia]

"You painted an image of Pale Night," Jessica says, rather shortly.

[Ebiris]

"No, I've never done that," she says dubiously. "Did I have a live model?"

[Anastasia]

"It wasn't clear," Jessica shakes her head, "But I think you did." She eyes the orb, "Sister, do you think it's more about potentials, real or imagined?"

[Ebiris]

"Perhaps... did you get any insight from it? Do you feel like you'd be better able to paint with the benefit of those memories?" Alicia asks just to make sure it doesn't transfer over any kinesthetic skills.

[Anastasia]

"I...don't know," Jessica admits, "Can you make paints and a canvas for me?"

[Ebiris]

"Temporary ones that'll work for this, yes," Alicia agrees, it being easy enough to create a canvas on an easel along with a brush and palette with a decent selection of paints on it.

[Anastasia]

It's like watching someone who has an inkling. She starts to paint, moving right before she stops. "I didn't know how to do this before," she says, "But it's like I can remember doing it now."

[Ebiris]

"I wonder if it'll fade or not?" Alicia wonders. "It doesn't transfer true mastery - that's built on years of experience, not a single memory, but it still gives you an inkling from having remembered doing it yourself. So that leaves the mystery of the memories that never were. While the ones involving strangers we can't verify the authenticity of, we've seen ones involving ourselves that we know never happened. So what about forcing it to show a particular event that never happened?"

[Anastasia]

"If it's about possibilities," Jessica muses, "If we're to be divine or prove ourselves worthy of a seed, isn't it to show we can rule over what is possible? Perhaps we need to command it?"

[Ebiris]

"Also... do we know it needs two? The Queen came here alone," Alicia says. Holding the sphere herself while Jessica paints, she thinks very hard about fighting Daa-vid alongside Seira and Demedais at the conclusion of the trials.