[For Lystra] Titus Artistic

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He chuckles and looks down to the pad of paper he's leafing through. "I hope, then, that I can do your face and form justice," he replies.

He's seen a woman naked before, but this time, it's different. This time, it's something a bit more intimate even than laying together. One of the artists he knew had told him that art involves putting a piece of the person into the image one is creating of that person.

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"Like this?" Lystra asks, and she'll lie on her side, facing Titus. It's a fairly simple pose.

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"That is perfect," he says, propping the sketch pad on one knee and setting to work roughing in a few base lines, getting the general lay of her pose first, before starting on the general shapes of the components of her body, starting with her head and working downwards.

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"You better not make me look ugly," Lystra says, though she's obviously joking.

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He chuckles gently, and looks up at her. "I assure you, I shall give it my best effort, to render a beautiful portrait of you," he replies, turning his gaze back to the page and starting on the details of her face and hands.

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"You have to give me a kiss for every mistake you make," Lystra informs him.

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"I shall take care, but even still, I may end in covering you in kisses," he admits, glancing from the sketch pad to her face, a slightly gauche look crossing his own face.

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Lystra smiles. "I suppose I could find it in me to forgive you."

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"I pray my artistic sins are easily forgiven," he says, glancing down and working on her torso...

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"I think I could forgive you for anything, if you were kissing me."

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He gets a bit dithery drawing her breasts, then he gets even more awkward when he moves further down. It's not horrid, but it shows a bit of nervey-ness. He pauses, takes up the kneadable eraser and sets to work wiping out his mistakes and redrawing them. "I'm afraid there's at least one kiss already," he admits.

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Lystra giggles. "What did you get wrong?"

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"I regret, I am not inexperienced in the ways of men and of women, but I've made a smudge out of drawing milady's secrets," he says, delicately, yet awkwardly at admitting his own blunder.

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"There's a new rule," Lystra says, suppressing a laugh. "You have to kiss the part you got wrong."