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[b][u]MY PLACE s01:e28 - UnAble to Impress[/u][/b]

Sable’s face was unreadable as I watched her attend to her sewing machine.
Was it pity? Frustration? Annoyance? Anger? Pure hatred? All of the above?
In any case, if her first impression of me hadn’t gone well, then the second wasn’t much of an improvement. I had just had a rather unsuccessful encounter with a local bee hive and let me tell you, my face isn’t too pretty on the best of days, but right now it was quite honestly horrific.

“Bees, huh?” I said, breaking the silence between us “One minute you’re shaking trees the next you’re shaking in fear. Ha, ha.”

Sable said nothing and returned to her work.
I can’t even remember why I came back to the Able Sisters to be honest. I think I just wanted cheering up, so I decided to go see the cute hedgehog sisters again. I would have gone to Bluebear’s tea party like we planned but I think my face made her cry. Or scream. One of the two.

“So….” I said through clenched teeth “What’s up?”

“Mable, could you take care of this customer for me, please?”

Mable soon skipped towards us, not even realising that I had entered the store.
“Oh!” she smiled “Good morning, mayor! I didn’t see—OH MY GOODNESS!! Are you alright!?”

“Eh, it doesn’t hurt” I replied, trying my hardest to ignore the excruciating pain “I fight bees all the time.”

Mable wheezed as she gingerly touched by swollen face, as if able to feel the pain herself. “Oh dear” she said “You aught to go next door to see Timmy, he’ll probably have some medicine you can take to help that”.

“The racoons run a pharmacy too?” I thought out loud “That’s handy, I suppose…” I really wanted to stay longer so I came up with the best conversation starter I could think of. “Say, Nook has his nephews running a store for several hours, right? Are child labour laws different here or something?”

“You’re bleeding” Sable mumbled, keeping her head down.

“What? Where abouts?”

“…your face”

“Oh, yeah, makes sense. Ow. Well, I best be going then. See ya later, girls!”

“You take care now, mayor!” said a concerned Mable as I stumbled out the front door.

Nailed it.
You know what Place needs? A café, a coffee shop, anything like that I can invite Sable too. I mean, I need some kind of excuse to pop by everyday so that she can reject me.

~Author’s Notes~
I wanted to try something different with this piece.
I’ve never really attempted digital painting, so this was a first. Personally, I kinda hate it, but you know, its better to try these things. I’ll probably do another one in this style, its just a matter of when.

Also, story wise, I wanted to portray how you as the player manage to get Sable to open up to you overtime by talking to her non-stop. I thought the most appropriate way to do that is to give the Mayor a slight crush on her (it won’t last, trust me) so the more he pesters her, the more he eventually finds out about her, her family and Tom. Oops, spoilers, I guess.

After a lazy and ego-driven guy finds himself in a wild world populated with talking animals, he is inexplicably made the mayor of a quiet little town and given the unthinkable burden of responsibility.

Created by CookieBoy011.

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