Cleaned, fed, and refreshed from the sleep Eshaan walked into the City of Hydrabad.
The stone spoke to him, telling him to sit and beg.
It then passed to him the gift of art.
"This is how we will start you off", it said..
"If I wanted, I could have passed you on instead, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Astronomy, Alchemy, Linguistics or a whole Canon on Ancient Medicine.
But those things don't mean much around here anymore."
The boy believed the stone, so he sat and begged.
Being poor, Eshaan had patience, for a week he begged, until he had enough to buy some quality paper and two pens.
He knew where to buy the paper and pen, he had walked in and looked it over thrice already.
So this time he walked straight in and bought it.
He took and ripped a square of cardboard, and placed the paper on it.
He had spent plenty of time sitting and thinking the past week.
So he knew what he wanted to draw immediately.
The Charminar Hydrabad, Taj Falaknuma Palace, a horse with an Indian warrior riding, sword drawn, these sorts of things, that he thought tourists might want.
So he began to draw these artworks, one by one.
Stroke after stroke, he drew as if he had done it all his life, in sure and steady hand.
For hours he worked until each artwork was a detailed complete piece.
He then took them to the place he had earlier chosen,
begged permission from the hotel doorman.
After a short-while, two tourists walked out of the hotel,
one glanced across Eshaan's artwork, his eyes opened wide
and he was unable to take them off the picture.
He tugged at his wifes hand. Wait, honey! You need to see this brilliant picture.
The lady with him looked at it for a mere second and said with out pausing, "lets get it!"
She pulled a note from her purse and approached Eshaan, "is this enough for the picture?"
Eshaan voice slightly trembled, saying "mam, that is in fact the correct amount."
She happily paid for the picture, which he rolled up and then went away smiling.
Two thousand rupee!!
That gemstone just made me the best damn artist in Hydrabad..!
And he looked at his next drawing..