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You go to your knapsack and rummage around in your art supplies. You pull out your larger sketch pad, a pencil, some chalk and some charcoal pencils. You then sit in the chair at the desk and face Raven as she floats over the bed. You use a magical barrier as an easel and have your sketch pad propped up so that you can draw her likeness.

You follow fundamentals and draw the framework of circles and lines. You swallow down your awkwardness--and dumb boyish excitement--as you sketch out her full figure. You make sure to keep proportions with the use of thumb and pencil.

You sigh, as you're faced with the obstacles of eyes and hands very early. You feel fortunate she has her eyes closed, easier to do eye lids than irises.

With things sketched out, you then move to charcoal and finalize the outlines and fill in her black leotard, staying soft in some spots for the communication of lighting but then going extra hard for shadow. You also softly fill in the bare body parts to give the impression of her pale gray skin, and find a moderate level to give the shadow effect on her face and legs. You go pure black for her eyebrows, eye lashes and chakra gemstone.

Shading her cloak and hair is tricky, you have to find the right levels of darkness to create what blue and purple look like in grayscale. You feel like you should've just done color but it's too late now.

You decide to take some artistic liberties and add her magical aura to the picture. You fill the fiery-wavy shapes, then outline them with the white chalk so that they stand out against all the other dark shades.

You pull your scarf down and blow away the unneeded charcoal and chalk dust, leaving only what grafted to the paper.

Raven floats back down to the bed, and fully settles back in before opening her eyes.

"Are you feeling better?" you ask.

"Yes," she smiles. "What're you doing with that?"

"Oh I, I hope you don't mind," you say as you turn the magical easel around. "I decided to draw you while you meditated."

Raven sits at the edge of the bed to look closely at it.

"Wow, that's... That's really good actually."

"I'm not an Empath, but I sense some unease," you say. "Should I have asked permission?"

"No, it's fine that you did this," she says. "It's actually rather sweet. It's just... Since it's in black and white, it-- It kind of reminds me of something. Something Malchior did as part of his seducing me into helping him."

"I knew I should've gone with color."

"It's fine, really," she says as she walks over. "That was years ago. I like yours better."

"Well, thank you," you say.

"Though," Raven smirks, "I will say that because he was a book, his was crisply printed."

You smirk back at her before putting your art supplies away. She admires the picture of herself a moment before heading for the door.

"Raven," you say as you take the book from the easel. "You can have this if you want."

"Really?" she asks.

You carefully tear away the page and hand it to her.

"Thanks," she says with a bright smile. "I'm gonna, gonna put this away in my room."

Raven beams all the way to the door, glancing back at you with a giddy smile every few steps. She exits your room and heads down the hall.

"Oh hey Raven," Robin says. "I was just coming by to get everyone's vote for dinner. The rest of us are thinking we order Chinese take-out since we also didn't get much for lunch."

"Yeah, sounds good," she says.

"What do you have there?" he asks.

"Oh, um. Rorek drew a picture of me while I was meditating."
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