Chapter 1: Prologue

Chapter 1: Prologue

“Does anyone have an extra pen?”

“Is now really the time for this Ben?” His classmate asked in exhaustion.

“I mean if we’re going to die anyway I really want to finish this drawing.”

“BEN! Don’t go talking like that! You’re just going to stress everyone even more. People are aware of where we are, there’ll be help in no time.” Scolded his teacher.

“Okay, my bad sorry. But it would really help me with passing the time until that does happen, so does anyone have a pen I can borrow for the time being? Mines out of ink.”

One of his classmates tossed one to him, and he gave them a friendly nod. He set himself up, holding his phone above his sketchpad with his non-dominant hand to get some light and got to work trying to distract himself from the day and his feelings of impending doom.

Feeling the judgement under her gaze he quickly broke and answered her question. “If you mean my immediate plans I’ve been working on a piece of cosplay for a con I have tickets for, making chainmail is a long-ass process though. In the more distant future it will be working for a year and then maybe art school if I can get accepted.”

“Wait, go back a bit.” A guy named John called out. “Why are you making your own chainmail? Couldn’t you just buy some or make something that resembles it, or just go in a different costume? That sounds like a huge pain in the ass.”

He gave his head a little scratch and thought about how to answer. “I mean, isn’t it just more satisfying to make it yourself? It just feels more rewarding, you know?”

Everyone went back to their discussion and he went back to his work, only stopping to eat with the others and plug a portable charger into his phone. More hours passed but he eventually finished his work and looked on at what he created.

Not bad, not bad. Linework is a little sloppy in places but this isn’t exactly peak drawing conditions, and I really captured the feeling of a lazy summer afternoon if I do say so myself. Yep this will certainly do.

Feeling pretty good about how it turned out he turned to show it off to one of his classmates, only to find that everyone else had gone to sleep, or was at least trying to. Looking at his nearly dead phone and seeing the time, he decided to take some time to pass out himself, hoping that things would seem more optimistic in the morning.The debut release of this chapter happened at Ñòv€l-B1n.