"What do you think?"I had done a new series of paintings and my friend Sommer had come over to see them before we did some spellwork together.
"They're the most beautiful things I've ever seen,"Kai, Sommer's middle son, stared up at my artwork as if he were viewing the Mona Lisa.
His mother stood behind him with a slightly different expression.
"They're a little dark."Sommer looked over the first in the series; studying the pile of corpses laid out before the Aztec temple. "What inspired you?"
"I've been doing some research."I chuckled at her struggle to come up with something positive to say. "This one is based on the Aztec myth of Huitzilopochtli. The dead men are his brothers. They murdered his parents and his sister so he killed them all and sent their bodies into the sky to become the stars."I gestured at the next painting which showed the corpses turning into bright points of light.