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Gravepainters Month: Red

La Muerte favorite color is red. She loves all the shades of red really. And anyone who knew her knew that much was obvious.

However, what they don't know is that her favorite thing that was red wasn't her dress or her hat or anything that can be found in the Land of the Remembered.

No her favorite shade of red is in the color of her husband's eyes.

What's interesting about Xibalba's eyes is that they change color depending on his mood.

They darkened into a crimson or maroon when he's angry.

They brighten into a candy apple for when he was in a playful or mischievous mood.

Sometimes they looked more cherry or ruby for when he was sad or deep in thought.

But the one color of red his eyes turn into that she adores the most is when the two of them are still in bed during the early hours of the morning. She wakes up before her husband (She always been an early riser) and for a few moments she'll just watch him and try not to laugh when he starts snoring. (Something he will forever deny doing.)

But then she'll lean forward and gently kiss him on the mouth until he starts to stir. He blinks a few times before those skull-like pupils focus on her and he'll smile and his eyes turn a shade of red that she can't name so she simply calls it, 'amor'.

She smiles back at him, staring into the amor red of his eyes and thinks, yes definitely her favorite color.