A Rude Awakener [TIB Exploration 1]
This was literally the worst painting that had to exist in history.
Like, even worse than that one painting restoration that made Jesus into a vaguely simian looking creature. The explanation for its presence wasn’t exactly clear either… and scratched out in places. Who saw fit to display this, anyway? Shit was basic as all get out.
He took the sudden outcry from another in the room as both an invitation and an excuse to stop examining it.
"I don’t think anyone actually knows!" Chi called back, half hoping someone would deny his assumption. He cast a cursory glance around those in the room… or, who remained in it anyway. A large group of the other people had already begun to move on. Only one guy remained collapsed on the floor now, although trying to wake him didn’t seem like a great idea.
"From what I’ve picked up, everyone just sort of woke up here without knowing why. Unless you know anything, I’m afraid you’re just as shit outta luck as the rest of us."
Raoul's ears twitched; someone had spoken up in reply not too far from him... although he frowned a bit when they said they didn't know the answer to his question, and that likely nobody did. But then he perked up! Not knowing the answer was an answer too. Another critical element of logical inference and deductive reasoning.
He also had an interesting shirt and scarf too. They were patterned like his, only with the colors reversed! What were the odds of that, he wondered? It was all interesting stuff. Chi had been nice enough to answer his rude question, and now the poor visual novelist had a short brown dude violating his personal space, staring right at him intently.
"...What else you got?" Raoul asked expectantly, quietly appraising the pattern of Chi's neck stubble.