Audrey flushes a little as she steps back and opens the door. "Yeah, it's nice. And... our assignment for right now is for us to color together."

Tasha steps inside. "I'm guessing that's as part of accepting your little kink?"

"Er um yes."

"Don't worry, I've seen plenty stranger things. And I like playing with littles from time to time. They can be... charming, if not exactly innocent."

Audrey laughs. "Yeah, we can be a handful sometimes, huh?"

Tasha smiles. "Just so."

Audrey spreads out her art supplies on a large desk she's picked out for the occasion. "I have a couple artbooks, stuff that's from my personal collection, not so much from the Bower collection..."

Tasha steps in and sits down at the desk. She reaches for one of the books and flips through it. 

"You like fantasy, huh? And less risque ones."

"Yeah. Could you... put that down for a second? I wanted to show you how to color first."

"Oh, yes. Go ahead."

Audrey picks up her box of pencil crayons and opens it, exposing the worn-down tips of her current set. She lays it out flat between the two of them. Her hands tremble a little. 

She takes a deep breath. "Okay, so. Firstly, you want to select a color palette that complements your subject. I like working with warm colors, so I'm going to do this witch in pink and gold and brown..." 

"Is brown a warm color?"

"Actually brown and even gold can be seen as neutral, along with silver and grey. They don't interact with the other colors much." Her hands settle down onto the page and start coloring.

"Coloring is really quite delicate work, isn't it? You have all these tiny little shapes to fill in..."

"Mmmmhm. It takes focus."

"I use coloring as a therapy sometimes, doing abstract designs like mandaluxes."

"What's a mandalux?"

"It's like a mandala, but personalized to the person coloring it. So symbols they like are in it, or colors they prefer... well that part is obvious if you color it."

"I see!"

"Is coloring meditative for you?"

Skritch skritch, look up. "Yeah, it can be."

"How long does one of these pages usually take?"

"An hour or two for a first pass, another two hours for blending and burnishing. If you're fast like me."

"How long would you expect it to take for me?"

"Mmmmm... eight hours."