The second of my tweaked stories. Fixed up and hopefully easier on the eye as well as some other minor tweaks. As before, the original is now uploaded as a scrap here [link] , and the original artists comment is below.

"Inspired by :icondarkarcana:'s great picture, Thanks For The Flowers [link] , I thought up an idea of [how] Aeris got petrified in that pic, and when I was done I'd came up with what I think is a good little twist on the "mad artist" idea as well as making the title a little bit darkly ironic.

The idea and motivation also helped me get out of a little bit of writers block I hope.
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