Fürs Team - Schreibaufgabe - nur indirekte Rede

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Team: Mond

Challenge: Schreibaufgabe - nur indirekte Rede

Fandom: Julian Lynes and Ned Mathey

Zusammenfassung: Julian hat eine Spur. Leider

Wörter: ~650

Rating: PG 12

Charaktere: Ned Mathey, Julian Lynes

As it turned out Julian and Hyde’s son Richard moved in the same circles. (The circles that enjoyed talking about opera far more than Ned did, not those that met at the Dionysus Club). Julian didn’t know him personally but he was sure one of his friends had mentioned him a few times so he suggested they should visit him. Julian had warned that his friend was quite talkative but that hadn’t fully prepared Ned for the man. Thomas Ashdown loved to talk. Unfortunately, not about the things Ned and Julian were interested in. To Ned, it felt like the had to suffer through an hour-long lecture on Georgian architecture before Julian managed to steer the topic towards Richard Hyde. Ashdown confirmed that he had been disinherited for taking up with the wrong girl. Upon hearing that the woman was Russian Ned straightened up but then Ashdown said that she might also have been French. And on second thought that might also have been the nationality of the man she had run off with for their marriage hadn’t lasted.

After a short detour about the history of Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa Ashdown could answer the question if the break up of the marriage had changed the relationship between father and son. It hadn’t. Apparently, Richard had tried to go back to his father but he had thrown him out again and made it clear that his decision was final. Unfortunately, without his father’s money, Richard tried to support himself as an artist and as such was neither very good (according to their host) nor successful. Ned was less bothered by the plight of a complete stranger who was possibly a murderer but by the fact that ‘artist’ led the topic back to Géricault and his complicated family life and eventually to his other works. Julian shot him a placating look which Ned hoped was meant as an apology for dragging him along to this and also a promise to make it up to him later (Ned had a few ideas about how he could do that).

He rudely interrupted the lecture on the Portraits of the Insane and asked about Hyde’s metaphysical capabilities. It earned him a harsh whisper from Julian and a surprised look from Ashdown. Of course, he was a talented metaphysician. Not only had he graduated from Oxford with honours, he also was a metaphysical painter. Julian made the mistake of asking what exactly that was. Delighted by so much interest their host launched into a detailed explanation.

Ned didn't bother listening. Even though he didn’t really move in artistic circles he knew the basics of this comparatively new fad. Metaphysical painters painted a picture in the ordinary way - or sometimes just poured colour on the canvas - and then moved it around by magic. Some left it at that, others used more magic so that it depended on the time, the day of the week or the weather if one saw the traditional painting or the metaphysical one. (The Commons of course strongly disapproved of this practice since metaphysics should only be used to do serious work and definitely not art). Ned didn’t really know many details about how metaphysical art worked but as Oxford Graduate Hyde had to be a very capable metaphysician. Capable enough to enter a locked room? In a house in which he wasn’t welcome?

By the time Ned focused on their host’s monologue again he was talking about a metaphysical painter who only painted magpies. He doubted they would be able to learn anything else that was relevant and Julian seemed to agree. Still, before they managed to make their excuses, they had to endure some more lectures about the magpies and their painter whose real name nobody knew and who only signed his works with ‘Night’. Even Julian rolled his eyes at that level of theatrics.

Comments

[servena]

"Metaphysical art" klingt ja mal sehr interessant! Leider war's der Rest des Gesprächs ja wohl nicht so, zumindest für Ned und Julian. :D

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Och die waren ganz begeistert ;) Hat man das nicht gemerkt?