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    Grantaire had always appreciated how much one could do without doing anything. It was an art he had trained at for many years of his life, and one he would consider himself quite skilled at. He practiced it to the best of his ability whenever the opportunity arose. Those who became angry with him for his perceived action or inaction never seemed to understand the duality. Art was not for everyone, this Grantaire knew, and he was happy to be the sole appreciator. Particularly when it led him to situations such as these, with the roof and chimneys of the manor house just barely beginning to make themselves visible.

    Grantaire is commissioned to do a project in a decaying manor house in the French countryside. Fleeing the bindings he feels his family has placed on him, he discovers another form such bindings can take. A very vaguely Gothic au

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