"No," he says quietly, "Stop that with my hair."
I look up from
the art I later end up uploading and squint at him. "What?"
"The hair," he says. "It should hang straight down."
"Oh come on," I say. "I do hair that flows in invisible winds
all the time. It's like my trademark." I point the end of my pencil at him. "You can correct me (heh) on vocabulary, but this is my sphere. Don't tell me how to do art."
He taps the dictionary with a blunt fingertip. "You are drawing Ai-Naidar. That means you pay attention to our visual styles."
"Yes?" I say.
"That drawing is from when I was at a point of emotional equilibirum," he says. "There should be no movement."
"No movement...?"
The dictionary drops onto my desk with a thump, open to an entry:
shim [ SHEEM ], (noun) – motion; almost always used for emotional/spiritual motion, in the sense of a person changing or growing. This is usually considered an awkward, uncomfortable or painful process, but also ultimately an joyful one. Also used to describe a visual trope, in that the character/person in an illustration with the most motion is the one that is changing the most. This is often depicted as external motion (wind in hair or clothes) even if the character is not moving, as a symbol that they can't stop growing/changing even when they seem physically still. Adjective form is shimele.
I stare at it, wide-eyed. And then say, choking up, "W-w-what?"
He glances at me.
"You... you have a word for fwoosh!" I get it all out in a rush and then burst out laughing.
"Gods save me," Shame says, exasperated. "The
aunerai is mad."
I squeak in the middle of my gigglefit and keep going.
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