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[youngestqueen]

Lucy sat on the grass near the school. She'd finished a class, and had some tutoring by Susan as well. Now she was drawing. Feverishly drawing in a way, one of the compound cats who had wandered outside for a while

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[apocralyptic]

"That's a good one," Coin observed, a little enviously. He knew what lions looked like, of course, but he could hardly imagine being able to put it on a piece of paper like Lucy did. There wasn't even one around for reference.

He didn't think anything of the book. It was just lying there.

[youngestqueen]

"Thank you," Lucy smiled up at her friend, glad to see him. "It was meant to just be a cat though."

[apocralyptic]

Coin shrugged. "It would have been a good cat. They look very nearly the same."

When you were talking to someone sitting, he remembered, you sat down too, so he nudged the book aside for a place to sit next to her.

[youngestqueen]

She wrinkled her nose, clearly not pleased with her effort. "I would rather it was just a cat."

[mediumprodigy]

It was a warm day, and Pearl had decided to enjoy it by going outside. She had been off to the compound, but upon seeing Lucy outside on the way there, the plan changed. She walked over, taking a peek at the picture.

"You draw really good" she said. It looked just like the lion at the circus did.

[youngestqueen]

'Thank you," She smiled at Pearl, but it wasn't her usual wide smile. She wasn't content with her drawing, not at all. "It isn't what I meant to draw."

[mediumprodigy]

She sat herself down next to her friend, tilting her head. "What was it supposed to be?" she asked.

It sure looked like a lion.

[youngestqueen]

"Just a cat. One of the cats from inside." She shrugged. She didn't mind it so much, it just seemed lions were everywhere she looked sometimes.

[patriotqueen]

"Hello, ducky." Guy said, as he approached the girl. He was actually here to find Anthony after class (originally he intended to be there during class, but that plan had stranded on the sunny but just slightly windy beach today). "Dear me, he's not going on about allegory, is he?" He asked, when he saw the lion Lucy had drawn.

[youngestqueen]

"Allegory?" Lucy looked up at Guy, confusion plain on her face. "No, he's not mentioned it. What is it?"

[patriotqueen]

"Visual paraphrases. Emblematic pictures. Boring lectures that he is able to go on about for ages. Lions feature disproportionally often." Guy said, poshly, rather bored by even saying it.

[youngestqueen]

"What for? What do they represent?" Lucy is leaning forward, both excited and confused by the randomness of this conversation and yet its appropriateness as well.

[onceaqueen]

"There you are," said Susan. The walk to the school had tired her, and she stretched, her back making a slight cracking sound before she sat beside her sister. Before long she would have to start limiting the length of her daily walks, but not quite yet.

[youngestqueen]

There was a moment she almost closed her sketchbook when her sister approached. She didn't though, added a bit more shading to the mane, and looking studiously at her drawing.

'I had a class this morning. I thought it was a nice place to sit and draw," Lucy smiled when she turned her face up to Susan, though it didn't quite reach her eyes.

[onceaqueen]

"It is a nice place to sit and draw," Susan agreed, glancing at Lucy's drawing. She didn't want to stare at a work-in-progress, and she didn't know anything about art to offer any advice, so she just said, "It's a spot that seems to suit you."

[youngestqueen]

"I like it here. Out of doors." Lucy breathed deeply, putting her pencil down. There was much she had been thinking on, and much she wanted to say to her sister, she just didn't know how. "I've been thinking of reading the next book."

[nevergrowsup]

Peter dropped down next to her, curling his legs under himself easily. "Hi."

He had had class as well (though, of course, Lucy had gotten to the rather more interesting bits of schooling by now while he was still minding his p's and q's) but now had the afternoon free.

If he had a packet of math worksheets under his arm, he dutifully ignored them as he leaned forward to look at her drawing.

"What're you doing?"

[youngestqueen]

"Hullo," She smiled at Peter, only a bit distracted. "Drawing. It was supposed to be one of the compound cats. It ended up being a lion."

She tilted the book toward him so he could see it better. "I hadn't meant it that way."

[nevergrowsup]

He scooted around so he could see it better then nodded after a moment. "That is a lion, it's a boy lion too. 'Cause of its ruff," he said, tracing that part of the lion which is more often called a mane. "There were a few lions in Neverland."

[youngestqueen]

"It is a boy lion," Lucy watched him trace the mane with his finger, her lips pulled inwards for a moment. "There was only one lion in Narnia."