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Arrow feels the portal open and pushes himself up from his lazy sprawl with a grunt. Blinking tiredly in the direction of the portal doesn't do much, considering the view is cut off by the smudged outline of trees. Perhaps he should have guessed his old apprentice would come immediately, rather than later in the day...
He draws out his pen- glaring at it for a moment to make sure it stayed a pen- and raises it to draw against the horizon. The landscape of his sphere response to his intent, sketch-lines sharpening and smudge-lines shifting to something distinct. Willing a path to form from Percy to his current location, Arrow dismisses his pen and yawns before shifting to grab his mug and thermos. Now he simply needed to wait.
All around Percy, what was once a plane the color of aged parchment smudged with indistinct shades of black and grey would sharpen as their artist redefined the world for his guest, the charcoal blurs outlined with strong strokes of inky lineart. He was in the midst of a meadow of bright white flowers gently swaying in an absent breeze, a forest of tall, shadowy pines all around.
This was not where Arrow's home was within his sphere.
A path would form beneath Percy last, meandering up and around the slope of the mountainside meadow and angling into the woods. A clear indicator of where to go to find his former mentor in the unfamiliar surroundings.
As the path is followed to its end, washes of color would slowly fade in and out like diluted watercolor- another unusual sight in Arrow's sphere. The reason becomes apparent as the harsh pine forest abruptly opens up onto a vibrant spring of colored ink, a prismatic willow tree leaning over the rainbow expanse from the far side, it's delicate branches trailing ethereal green leaves over the rainbow pool. The color from pool and tree bleeds into the very air, highlighting the white of the monochrome landscape with a beautiful blend of watercolor light.
"Here, Percy." Arrow quietly calls from where he sits on the nearby grassy slope down to the ink pool. He gestures to the teal-shaded grass beside him with his free hand, the other wrapped firmly around his mug.
Most that looked at him wouldn't realize anything had happened, beyond perhaps needing more sleep, judging by the bags beneath his sockets. The smudges of ink over his cheekbones were fairly common for ink's after all. The dull, muddy red of the eye-light that wasn't a permanent V-shape would be the most obvious tell of something wrong, slowly fading.
"My apologies for the impromptu hike. I should have gone back home after I messaged you. May have been able to at least start the kettle before you got here." Arrow says with a teasing smile. He sets the mug back down beside him, fully freeing his hands- just in case he needed to catch an armful of his former ward.













