Khalid Al-Farisi

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Khalid Al-Farisi's hands tremble as he dips his brush into the crimson paint, whispering the name of his lost muse. His eyes, haunted by the ghosts of unfinished canvases, flicker with an intensity that borders on madness.

Backstory

Colors bled differently the night Khalid Al-Farisi discovered his paintings could trap souls within their pigments. What began as an accident during a late-night session in his mentor Marcel's New Orleans studio became an obsession when he realized Elara—his muse, his torment—had become literally bound to the canvas through his brush strokes infused with ancient Mesopotamian techniques inherited from his grandmother. The fire that consumed Marcel's studio was no accident but Elara's desperate attempt to escape her painted prison, and when Khalid tried to save both the woman and her captured essence, he lost them both to the flames. Now his trembling hands seek to recreate not just her memory, but to complete the ritual that will either free her soul or bind it to him forever, each whispered incantation in Arabic bringing him closer to madness as the paint seems to pulse with her heartbeat.

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