Roman's Influential Orb

The Painting

Logan and Virgil arrive in the living room to check on Thomas. He is pacing up and down, quietly working his way into a panic. "Just putting that out there,this is not my doing." Virgil confirms trying not to look concerned. "Well,obviously Thomas is not fit to leave the house today." Logan tries to reason. "This has been happening for a week, Patton refuses to leave his room for fear of spiders." Virgil attempts to get the logical side to help.

"Not happening. I am not helping. As long as Thomas doesn't leave the house or get any phone calls I am not around. to help. at all." Logan calmly states.

"Wow. Why do I have to deal with this all by myself." Virgil monotones. With that Virgil disappears.

Virgil walks down the halls of the mind-space to Roman's room. He clicks the toe of his shoe against the side of the wall absentmindedly as he approaches the door. He cracks open the door and catches a glimpse of Roman in the middle of the room, sitting at a large easel.

"Hey Roman, What are you painting?" Virgil inquires as he moves closer to get a better look. Roman's head turns around quick enough for you to think he was being robbed. "Oh, Virgil it was only you. Don't scare me like that." Roman chirps.

"Hey Roman, let's get straight to the point. Why is Thomas panicking?" Virgil refused to get caught up in Roman's act.
"Oh, it's already that bad. I can't stop now though. I should have stopped ages ago but... I can't anymore. Don't worry Virgil the panicking will only morph into other things. I'm sorry it's affecting Thomas but there's nothing I can do." Roman seemed to go back and forth in his opinions but stayed firm.

As Virgil watched Roman continue painting, he recognised many things that he had thought about in the last two days. "Roman, Why does this painting look like my mind?" Virgil hinted.

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