0. Hmm... Yes, that looks right.
1. Why hello, Linhardt. It is not often I find you [cdb]drawing outside.
2. I'm not drawing. I'm simply trying to capture this [cdb]wyvern's form.
3. See? It's resting on that hill over there.
4. Ah, an extraordinary sight indeed. Now then, let us [cdb]see what you have done so far.
5. I must say, it feels as though something is lacking in [cdb]your work. How can I describe it? Your depiction is [cdb]almost too accurate.
6. Take these scales, for example. Why, they could have [cdb]been plucked from the very wyvern itself.
7. I told you, this isn't art. I'm doing it for my [cdb]research.
8. And when conducting research, it's always best to [cdb]have precise references. The same is true when [cdb]dealing with numbers or gathering information.
9. I see. So you value accuracy above all else.
10. Right. Honestly, I've never quite understood art [cdb]anyway.
11. So I'm perfectly content leaving that sort of thing to [cdb]the true creatives. You know, the quirky ones. People [cdb]like Bernadetta.
12. So I'm perfectly content leaving that sort of thing to [cdb]the true creatives. You know, the quirky ones.
13. Even so, there may come a day when your work is [cdb]seen as the craft of a master artisan. When such [cdb]precision is lauded as the height of aesthetic genius.
14. What makes you say that?
15. Oh, merely a passing thought.
16. Perhaps in the distant future, connoisseurs will value [cdb]accuracy and attention to detail over the magnificent [cdb]interpretive pieces we hold dear today.
17. Do you really think that'll happen, though? I doubt [cdb]people will ever stop appreciating the ancient classics.
18. You certainly have always done so.
19. Yes, there is no denying that.
20. But I fear my own personal inclinations hold little [cdb]sway over public opinion. Nobody knows what trends [cdb]may arise in the decades and centuries to come.
21. So I can indeed envision a future in which accurate [cdb]depictions are praised just the same as the greats of [cdb]old. And I encourage you to do the same, my friend!
22. I don't get it. How are you so optimistic all the time? It's like you're constantly looking toward the future.
23. I could say quite the same about you. I have always [cdb]believed you to be rather forward-thinking.
24. That's not optimism, though.
25. All I'm thinking forward to is the time when I can just [cdb]sleep the days away. That's why I'm forcing myself to [cdb]be as active as I can now.
26. Regrettably, those halcyon days of slumber are still [cdb]but a distant dream. I have much work for you, [cdb]both now and further down the road.
27. To begin with, might I ask you to paint my portrait?
28. For the last time, I'm a researcher, not an artist. Are you sure you want such a faithful depiction?
29. That is exactly what I want. How else would my [cdb]yet-unborn descendants know the true visage of [cdb]the great Ferdinand von Aegir?
30. Indeed, I would be proud to submit myself as a [cdb]subject of your research. Consider it a study in the [cdb]personification of nobility itself.
31. Ugh, don't get ahead of yourself.
32. I'm fine drawing you, but I don't have the slightest [cdb]modicum of interest in actually researching you.
33. Though I do sometimes wonder where you get all [cdb]that unabashed confidence from.