Admittedly, her hands lifted. Just in case Mary had plans of putting paint somehow all over the princess. Not that Eirika had genuinely thought any such thing would happen.

... Okay. She thought it a little.

Her attention was drawn onto Mary's painting, which from an initial glance, she didn't seem to quite get. But there was always a unique beauty in abstract art. Back in Magvel, she was more accustomed to portraits, so there was something refreshing in not seeing something so direct or concrete.

"What does it mean?" she finally asked as she eyed the painting a little further away, as though it might help her better grasp the concept. "What were you thinking - feeling - when you did it?"