'Was thinking of some scenery, actually.' He smiles, thoughtfully, and then glances at Jim. 'For some reason I haven't been 100% while painting, recently.'

He doesn't realise it's because Jim sits and watches him, and Kyle's always conscious of being observed when he's in his element like that. Fighting, probably, he can manage, but art - he only let people see the finished pieces. The process was too much like baring his soul, more than the finished work was.