[It would be an understatement to say that Nico is impressed and a little awed by Mal's work the moment he walks into the cabin. While he's already come to appreciate her artistic talents, that still didn't prepare him for the portraits on the walls painstakingly detailed and mapped out, making the cabin feel theirs in a way it never felt to him before. It's beautiful, amazing, entirely Mal and he loves it. And later, he'll tell her that. Later he'll ask her to show him how she captured his dumb untamable hair so well and what color of paints she mixed for her eyes. Not right now though.
Right now he stands in the doorway and when he gets his breath back his voice is fond but not without a hint of exasperation.]
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Right now he stands in the doorway and when he gets his breath back his voice is fond but not without a hint of exasperation.]
Mal.