"I need you to hold the pose for at least a minute while my camera warms up. Is that alright with you?" The shopkeeper asked.

"I suppose so. I'm sure I can hold this rather... light orb for that long," the wolf smiled, lifting his hand up and gesturing to the orb.

"Good, good. Now hold it like that!" The shopkeeper walked a few feet away, getting out of the sphere. He stepped over a few cables before going to a computer. "Alright, big smile for the camera!"

The wolf widened his smile and stiffened his muscles. It was only going to be for a minute. Shouldn't be too hard, right?

Silently, he watched the shopkeeper as the machine turned on. The further it moved, the easier it felt to hold the orb up... but that minute long since passed. The wolf knew this, because he was counting. He thought he could've just been bad at timing, but he was already at two hundred seconds. That was well over three minutes. He wanted to say his arm was getting tired, but it just wasn't true.

"Uh... can I move now?" He asked, instinctively trying to move his arms. To his panic, he couldn't. They seemed stuck.

"A little longer. It'll take a bit longer for the... permanence to set in." The shopkeeper snickered, looking around the computer. "I need my figurines to be the highest quality, after all...

Commission for Short

Art (C) Me