Surmise - To Guess

Surmise is a painter in the fairy world. Surmise paints sun rises that he has seen in his life. Surmise though is no longer alive because he died about 50 years ago. He only made about 30 paintings. So his paintings are very expensive. Some fairies have spent half their life savings to get just one painting. Most of Surmise paintings belong to his children who will not sell them. Some of his children make wills so if they die the painting will go to their children. Many fairies believe that there are a lot more of his paintings somewhere.   

     Many fairies have gone looking for his paintings but none have found any of them. Some even go mad looking for them. Some fairies have gone looking for the paintings and never come back. Only one fairy has ever come back with a painting and it was only half of it. That fairy went back looking for the other half but he was never seen again. The half of the painting he found later was looked at by a family member and he said that Surmise only painted half of this one because he wanted to see what it would look like.   

    Only one fairy has more than 4 painting of his own. He is Surmise brother. Surmise left the 6 paintings to him in his will. He originally left 10 but his brother sold 4 of them to pay for a few bills he couldn’t afford. He sold the 4 paintings for over one million fairy dollars. Now he is the 2nd richest fairy in the world. The richest is the fairy king.     

    Most of Surmise family sold all of their paintings because they didn’t want them. His kids though didn’t sell any of them. Actually they buy any of the paintings that are for sale and they put it in the museum that they made. They made the museum for an extra few dollars a month but they decided to make it their main source of money. People come and pay to