[His lips move up when he thinks of Carl being here. Markus has to think for a moment when Jim suggests he paint in Carl's stead. Did he like painting?]

I don't know. I've only painted two things. [All right, technically three, but he was copying the first so it's not really the same.

The more he ponders this, the more he thinks back on all the things he did with Carl's encouragement]

I think I like a lot of things. Playing chess, learning about emotion and philosophy with books, music. And painting. I think I do like to paint.