"So, the livingroom is done! Now, would you kindly let me know what that ruckus is?!" she hissed when she turned up in the kitchen.
Eternia stopped dead in her tracks like she hit a wall. Sinistra was in the kitchen, humming happily, and just closed the window.
"Ah, Eternia! Perfect timing!" she said in a good mood and gazed satisfied at the fllor, which was sparkling clean.
And red.
"Tell me, how do you like our new flooring?"
"What... What the... How...?" Eternia stared at the floor and didn't know what to say. She carefully scratched with her foot. No doubt, this was stone floor, no linoleum.
"This looks awesome! Just what I wanted! Bright! Easy to clean! Classy! That's almost like marble!"
"It does its best to shine like marble, but it is stone." Sinistra chuckled.
"Sinistra, do you have an idea how much money and work you saved us?"
"Good, isn't it?"
Where did this come from?
Sinistra enjoyed to see Eternia this surprised. She was tired but happy with her achievement, and she even managaed to wipe off the sweat before Eternia came in.
"Oh well, you know, I just had a little talk with the element in the floor here. I was informed by it that beneath the wood was an older floor covering. This floor. It was dying to come back to the light and shine for us."
She smiled.
"Rad!" Eternia spurted. "And how... did you get rid of the wood?" As hard as she looked around, all kitchen furniture was still at its place.
"Just as us elementalists do such things. I mean, I know it's now a true professsion", Sinistra taunted satisfied, "but I simply asked the wooden floor to go."
"To go?"
"The wood is outside in the yard, we can use it in the fireplace. It told me it was tired anyway and would prefer to become a smoke elemental and see the world."
"Oooooookaaaaay..." Cautiously, Eternia took a step back. Her new housemate was weirder than she thought. "Alright... I admit your profession is more useful than I thought."
"Thank you!" Sinistra smiled from ear to ear. "And I admit that it's not always as easy as this case. When elements don't want the same I do then... well, then it's more exhausting."
"So you can't do this anytime you want?"
"On a scale like this? No. May I see the livingroom now?"
"Oh, Eternia, what a fantastic result! Everything looks so clean and new now!" Sinistra swooned after they went downstairs to check out Eternia's work. "And without any spilled paint! Fabulous!"
"I'm just a natural", Eternia grinned, without any modesty. "Anyway, a new problem showed up!"
"Huh? And what is that?"
"Here, can you see that?" Eternia pointed towards the gap between walls and ceiling. "Now that the ceiling is so nice and bright it's obvious what shoddy work the previous tennants delivered with the wallpaper! There's gaps everywhere!"
"Oy, that's not very sightly, indeed..."
"Now we actually need fresh wallpapers! Or we have to buy crown moldlings!"
Sinistra thought about it for a minute. "Can't we just cover that with a fabric brim?"
"Brim? Wow, I didn't think of that." Eternia was perplexed that she didn't get that idea herself.
"I actually have one at hand, but it's purple", said Sinistra.
Eternia looked at her. "Why did you bring something like that?"
"Well, I bought it for my room! I like these things. But if you like we can use it here instead and I'll choose something new for myself."
"Okay! Make it so! You take care of the brim and I'll paint the kitchen!" Eternia once again donned the paper hat and went on her way but Sinistra called her back. "Err, wait! Shouldn't I help you with the kitchen? You're doing all the paintwork alone..."
"No problem, I just gained momentum!"
"Yes, but... don't you want to see the brim to check if you even like it?"
"If you want you can show it to me before you glue it on. But you know what... After what you did with the kitchen I'll simply trust you for once!" In a good mood Eternia vanished into the corridor. Sinistra was speechless.
The blonde smirked. 'More free stuff! Sinistra's bank book is a godsend!'
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