"Sadly the planet hardly grabbed up my entire studio when it nabbed me" Michiru said with a slight sardonic laugh. "This is the first piece I've worked on since being here." Which was true. When she'd first arrived she hadn't felt much like painting, and since then she hadn't felt the desire to.
She listened as he talked about being raised by artists and some of the places he'd been. There was something odd about what he said though, something that tickled at her intuition, like he wasn't telling her everything. Interesting.
"You certainly have traveled" she said mildly, wondering what he was so anxious about. "I've seen some of Europe, though it was on a whirlwind concert tour, so I didn't get to enjoy a lot of it. Never been to the Ukraine though. Is it nice?" She thought for a moment. "They do a lot of religious art there right? Very stylized?"