Kanaya, having finished her sewing for the day, decided to leave her crafts room to see what her lovely wife was up to. Upon seeing her wife, a flush fell upon her face, but not for the usual reasons.
“My dear, you are aware that you are able to interrupt my sewing if you have any other partners coming over, so I know not to disturb you”
Rose looked perplexed and looked around, “I didn’t have anybody over, what are you-” she pauses, and then bursts into laughter.
“I don’t understand what is so funny here”
“On my Earth we used a liquid called paint - usually made out of pigment, solvent, and resin – to decorate the walls of our human hives. I just alchemised a few small containers of them in order to see which would look best.”
Upon that being pointed out, Kanaya noticed the small squares of wall that had this paint on them. “Ah. It seems rather laborious to have to paint all these little squares just to decide on a colour, is this a normal human custom?”
“We used to go to these stores to see samples of colours, but due to the destruction of my planet those no longer exist. These stores were also where you bought paint with currency.”
“I think I understand now. We had a similar home decorating system in Alternia but we used the blood of lesser beasts, although some more violence-oriented trolls used the blood of their victims for decoration.”
Rose, bless her heart, had very little judgement about the violence of her planet like other humans did, “Roxy has told me that there was someone on her Earth that used blood in a commercial product: Little Nasty Ex or something.”
“Your human capitalism is very strange, we just had carpenter drones who built whatever we needed.”
Kanaya had a strange implement placed into her hand, “As an act of cultural exchange, do you wish to help me paint?” Sensing her confusion she added, “this is a paint brush, we dunk it in the paint and then use the brush to apply the liquid to whatever surface we so desire, like so”
The troll watched in interest as her wife demonstrated the process.
“Yes, my love, I would greatly enjoy that.”