[SE] Capturing a Likeness

The tradition he had heard of, this 'capturing the sun', introduced by Ianto's expertly told story...Bastien thought it quite quaint. A superstition and nothing more, clearly, but sweet. Reminded him of the odd traditions of his home. Not to trust a black cat or walk under a ladder, to always knock the statues bases as you walked past to avoid bad luck. To put out a meal for Saints on their holidays. While he liked these kind of things, found them interesting, he had never really participated before. But he had told himself he was going to become more involved in the culture, so he tried to put his own spin on the idea of catching the sun. He was going to paint it. When you painted someone right, you said you 'captured' them, so he thought it close enough. Although this particular sitter he could no longer sit before and observe, now that his Ascended skin would burn, so he sat underneath the shade of a tree in the late evening, painting the last remnants of a slow sunset. Humming softly to himself he put paint to canvas and did not look elsewhere, completely relaxed. Bastien Start by admitting from cradle to tomb Isn't that long a stay Life is a cabaret, old chum It's only a cabaret, old chum