Artistic Endeavors

"Hnnnn..."

Helia felt stuck. Extremely stuck. It was mid-day, and similarly she was smack in the middle of art class, in which they were supposed to be practicing painting scenery. However, anyone who knew Helia knew that she would never stick to just some simple form of realistic scenery. No, she had to go all out, and could thus be found painting a rather gruesome picture of her personal world known as Somnus.

It was a rather grisly sight. Bright pastel hills splattered with guahes of crimson blood, nooses hanging from the trees and knives scattering the ground, little people in the background with their heads falling off. If there was anything she loved, it was blood and gore, and this was made obvious in her creation. However, she had absolutely no idea what to do about the sky. Should she make it red? Pink? Even purple? What about clouds, should she add those?

"Fucking shit..."

After muttering a string of vulgarities under her breath, Helia decided she was officially bored with art class. Sticking her sleeve in her mouth and swinging her legs back and forth, she began to swivel her head around and search for someone to pester. It didn't take long for her to settle on the girl sitting at the easel next to her, who she reached out and poked in the arm.

"Hey! Hey! This is boring, dontcha think? What're you doing, huh?"

@Zora

Helia shrugged mildly as she looked back at her own picture. True, she did love painting pictures of Somnus, even if she was struggling with this particular one. Then again, if there was anything she hated, it was being told what to do - and drawing Somnus while under someone else's command was still immensely boring in her opinion.

"I gueeeeess... maybe it is kinda fun. But it's art class! So doing it in class makes it so booooring."

With curiosity, she looked over at this new person's painting. She actually recognized the scene the other had been drawing out - a south side beach that Helia had been to once or twice, back when she still lived with her parents. It gave her a slight feeling of nostalgia- something she hated - causing her to let out a little "hmph" noise. However, she did enjoy the way the other was painting.

"Your colors are pretty! I like them lots! Do you go to that place a lot?"

"Hm, mine?" Helia turned in her seat for a moment to stare at her own painting for a moment, entering a period of deep thought. It had been a long while since she last told a stranger about her little world, especially considering some people tended to... freak out a little when she explained it. However, she was feeling lucky today, and even if the other found it weird she could revel in her discomfort.

"Nope! It's not the island! It's not anywhere on earth, actually." Here, a rather wild grin spread over her features. "It's Somnus! Somnus is the world I live in with my friends!" Her legs began to swing back and forth, and her hands flapped up and down as she started to explain all the different aspects of her wonderful little world. "Everything is great there! It's full of glitter, pretty colors and funny animals! And..." She pointed at one of the headless bodies in her painting, "nobody gets to be there that I don't like!"

Helia shook her head, as she continued to smile as if she was having the time of her life. "Nope! My family doesn't live there! Somnus is just for me. My family doesn't like Somnus, but that's okay, because I don't live with them anymore!" She then also hopped off her stool and turned to look at her painting in the same way the other girl was. Perhaps if she did this she would find something new to add amongst the other grisly details.

After a moment though she frowned. "I wouldn't want mommy and daddy in Somnus anyway. Or my brothers and sisters. Nope! Not them! They don't get to be in Somnus, because Helia doesn't like them!" She said this with the air of a child putting their foot down on a matter, a slightly innocent yet bratty tone.

"Hmmm...."

Helia tapped her chin for a moment, trying her hardest to decide how to answer the other's question. It was difficult to decide how to phrase exactly how she had come across Somnus, especially since it felt like it had been apart of her life for ages. However, she did her best to come up with an answer.

"Well... I wouldn't say I found it... it's kinda like Somnus found me! It came to me one day when I was younger, and when I explored it I was able to control it! Now it's apart of me, and I get to visit it whenever I want!"