La palidez de los ojos negros

Inspiration is what keeps an artist's work alive. And a wrong muse shakes the foundations of his art. This is what Lucca thinks when she feels that finally, after months of being off, her spark is being revived by getting lost in dark eyes that pale in the light. Valentina believes in signs. And she lets herself be carried away by them. She feels it when she sees the sun etched on the façade of Santa María Novella. Or when Lucca's hands cradle her face as if everything about her were her art. But she doesn't understand the Tarot's warning: she has to wake up in order to move forward. To him, she is like the sun: she can shine with her light and burn with her own fire. She is like Simonetta for the Renaissance. And she feels that he is ready to burn because of her. Because of her muse.