Mavis hadn’t ever expected to be decorating the walls of a hardware store, but here she was. As she paced around the building, extending her arm and releasing her magic onto the walls, she realised that this job was going to take quite a while. Perhaps that was why it was paying in so many elite tokens.
Then again, she couldn’t quite shake the feeling that there was something more sinister going on that she wasn’t aware of. She had to keep alert, in case anything changed.
Although the assignment had said to make it pretty, Mavis figured that perhaps calming was a better aesthetic for a place like this. She chose a soft blue with a very subtle flower motif, transforming the walls with every step. How exactly her magic worked, she wasn’t sure. All she knew was that she had to concentrate hard, otherwise the new wallpaper wouldn’t be a consistent design. And on a job like this, she hated to think what would happen if she managed to screw it up.
When she was done, this was going to be the greatest hardware store in the Cheltenham area, although there wasn’t much – if any – competition. In fact, Mavis suspected that this hardware store was actually located right on the border of Cheltenham and Hampton, so it would probably be the best one in both suburbs.
Oh, she could see it now. People would come here, looking to buy timber supplies. Cheltenham would come highly recommended due to its beautiful store, so people would stroll in and be awed by how calming the walls were. As they left with their timber and tools they’d ask the checkout employee who created such fabulous wallpaper, but it would be a mystery. The employees would say that the artist is unknown, the installer simply a phantom who brought life back to this abandoned building.
Yes, that was how it would go. She could imagine it no other way.
Assuming that’s what her mysterious employer wanted to do with this place.