Search Concluded

A blank board stares back at her; brushes, pens, inks, and notes litter the desk upon which she rests her elbows. How often she has studied a similar board... a quest this time, a simple quest. A smile crosses her face as she envisions the quests within the quest - a girl searching for her place within the maze of adolescence, a boy of two different worlds seeking acceptance, a young man searching for love, a young woman searching for her brother, and a child seeking what was stolen from him.

Pen and brush seek ink and then paper, while images vie for their place on the page. A tree takes root and grows, a shrine is built, and a fat cat wanders through. "Isn't it funny?", she thinks, drawing a fondly remembered well, that in seeking a jewel, she found her place.