There was no reason to assume anything; it was a normal day, nothing special about the date at all. A gorgeous blue sky was overhead, the sun brighter than ever to feed all of the flowers sprouting across the realms- Spring was here, but still there was no special occasion.
Only one thing was different today: the resident clockmaker seemed to be both joyful and nervous, as light as a musical note and as heavy as the Great World Serpent's burden; all day he whistled, hummed, sang a catch of song here and there, but his tail betrayed an agitation no one could name. He had given Delbin a mysterious request: "Be my muse for a little bit," he had said, "I want to try my hand at painting."
So now here they were, before the waterfall, their roles reversed; now Lindar was the one behind the canvas, Delbin posing before him. Lindar dipped his brush into one of the orange paints, the same shade of autumn as his love's scales, then smeared it over the canvas, occasionally gazing up at his muse with adoration, so much so and so often that one would begin to suspect that he wasn't painting at all.
In a sudden display of maladroitness he dropped the paint brush, and as he stooped to grab it a stray movement of his wing caused the canvas to fall as well. Lindar hissed a soft curse and bent to grab it.
"Don't worry! I got it!" He said, kneeling on one knee to grab the canvas, "Just give me a minute…"
Then he turned it around, revealing a message painted onto it: "Will you marry me?"
In his other hand he held a ring. The smile on his face was both incredibly smug and yet somehow sweetly nervous all at once.