Aiya’s
slums never got cleaned up like Veronni wanted, but he gave the oney he earned
from selling the Elmir children painting, to Liela and Mikael, the two eldest,
and only surviving, Elmirs.
Mr.
Flinn, or, Storm as he insisted on being called, became one of the family. He
and his partner, Emmit, retired together in a small cottage on the outskirts of
Trawl, and went over for dinner at the Adain’s at least once a week. Storm had
ended up heading the AAS for a few years, which fulfilled a life-long dream
he’d shared with his actor husband. Emmit had been the lead actor for the AAS
for almost a decade alongside Veronni who had been head of both the painter and
writer sectors of the AAS. Heading a section meant being the face of every
person in Aiya – whether part of the AAS or not – who partook in the activity.
Veronni’s
family grew excessively by the latter portion of his life. His fifth grandchild
was born on his sixtieth birthday, and, ten years later, after the death of
Storm (emit had passed away three years prior) he had twenty two little ones
that pined for his attention.
Veronni
painted almost five hundred paintings during his fifty years with the AAS, but,
after finishing each one, he would shake his head and mutter:
“Still not the one."
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