Status Updates From A Masterpiece for Bess (Tal...

why is bess kinda….. 🌈…. the tension w quill??? 🤨

"In the courtyard, there was silence.
Bess looked happily at her painting. Then she turned to her fans. But the faces staring back at her were blank."

u bitches don't deserve bess

"Fawn paused and wrapped her arms fondly around the bird—“do you want to paint us here? Or back at your studio?”
“Right now?” Bess said.
“Why not?” said Fawn with a shrug.
“It’s early. Besides,” she went on with a nod toward the mockingbird, “it’s the only way you’re going to get your vole hairs.”"

bess needs a gun

“No,” said one silver-polisher. “We want portraits, like everyone else.”
“Yes!” the others chimed in. “We want portraits! We want portraits! We want portraits!”

bruh

"Luckily, the water was not very deep. Yet the harder Bess flailed, the faster the playful stream became. At last it began to carry her away!"

this is the kind of luck i have

"Not to mention a bubbling foot-high fountain from Silvermist, the water-talent fairy."

LMFAO I love her

"“I thought you’d like them.” Rosetta beamed. “In fact, I thought you might enjoy painting them. Or perhaps it would be better for you if I posed with them!""

😭