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The door closed. The dust settled.
Lena finally looked at him. She was young — thirty, maybe — with the clean, merciless posture of the new school. Laser tools. Digital mapping. Chemical stabilizers that smelled of laboratories, not linseed oil. She respected him. She also pitied him, which was worse. attingo
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Fin.
“Well,” he said.
He did not think about conservation. He did not think about legacy. He thought about the anonymous painter in 1327, grinding lapis lazuli into powder, mixing it with egg yolk on a cold morning. He thought about the painter’s own hands — cracked, stained, mortal. Lena finally looked at him