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Whispers of Chroma

            In the dim twilight that perpetually shrouded Helixion, Azura Vespertine was an anachronism, the last vestige of artistry in a world suffocated by orthodoxy. The cobalt strands of hair belonging to Azura and her twin, Lyria, stood as a brazen affront to the uniform drabness that the city mandated. Such vibrancy was a rebellion in itself, a declaration of war against a regime that had outlawed the mere concept of color and creativity, condemning them as seeds of dissent and disorder.

With the institution of the Grey Laws, Helixion’s governing body had launched its crusade against extravagance, decrying art as a frivolous extravagance and a corrosive societal influence. The visual tapestry of life, once a kaleidoscope, was methodically replaced by an oppressive monochrome. Lyria had been a casualty of this purge, her street art her downfall, leaving Azura in the quiet despair of forced solitude. Yet within the sanctuary of her sparse studio, Azura clung to the relics of a more vibrant epoch, her works a clandestine testament to a suppressed past. Outwardly, she donned the cloak of conformity, her azure locks and inked skin hidden beneath the guise of the unremarkable, blending into the sterile streets of Helixion like another faceless apparition.

In the sanctuary of her studio, where canvases bore silent witness to a defiance that daylight could no longer bear, Azura would prepare two cups of coffee. The ritual was a daily rite, one warm for her lips, and one left to grow cold in homage to Lyria’s preferred taste—a quiet ode to a shared past now relegated to the shadows.

Azura’s art was birthed in the stillness of the curfewed nights, under the gaze of a less vigilant tyranny. Each piece she crafted was a subversive act, a covert dispatch to those souls still receptive to the notion that their world need not be one of bleakness and fear.

Each painting was a revolt, a luminescence against the engulfing dark. There, in the interstice between the two cups, with each sip of the cold brew, Azura kept the promise of a chromatic renaissance alive, a whispered pledge to Lyria that the colour they once knew might one day bleed into the fabric of Helixion once more.

Taken on: April 16, 2024

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