365 Days of Drabbles: Day Forty-One

[jeriendhal]

For Naziha Zahed: "When knowing how to draw saves your life."

Note: Only one more prompt in reserve. Moar plz....


It was a big wall.

"It's very simple," the General had said to her, as they stood before the Presidential Palace, watching workers patch bullet holes. "I want you to paint a monument to my glory. A spectacle describing every aspect of my conquest."

She'd been a newspaper cartoonist, once. She'd moved on to portrait paintings later, but they had remembered. "How long do I have?" she asked.

"As long as you need."

"And after I'm done?"

He smiled. "You will be properly rewarded."

Right. "How could I refuse?"

Fifty meters by twenty high. Enough room for a lot detail.

Comments

[shadur.livejournal.com]

I get the feeling that someone's about to decide he'd rather be hanged for a sheep than a lamb (at least I think that's the expression in English...)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that one.

[shadur.livejournal.com]

Not sure where the etymology stems from. Probably Scotland.

It's the imploded version of "Rather be hanged for stealing a (big) sheep than be hanged for stealing a (small) lamb", meaning in context that if you're going to get punished/killed/"properly rewarded" anyway you might as well go all out.