"All right. We can look into music lessons and things like that to make up what class periods you wind up missing. The church art meet is today, you want to try that out before dinner?"

Sure.

"Lunch is quesadillas, if you let yours cool it'll be fine to pick up." Julie makes them both quesadillas with beans and cheese.

Om nom.

Any plans for today?

"Besides the art meet? Nope. Wanna play more chess? Or learn another game?"

Chess was pretty fun, sure. Or something else, that's fine too.

"Things good for two players we've got are... Scrabble, Set, Go? Go's kind of like chess."

Sure, she'll try Go.

Julie teaches her Go and starts with a big handicap instead of going easy on her.

Go is trickier, but she makes interesting mistakes at it at least.

They can adjust the handicap over time till it's time to go to the art meet. The art meet is a bunch of people, disproportionately children but plenty of adults, showing up to the church courtyard with their easels, drawing tablets, clipboards, clay, and other items. Julie brings paper but lets Dusk have her pick of the church's art supplies - crayons and markers and pastels and fingerpaints and embroidery floss and plastic beads.

She wanders around looking at what people are doing, first - clay is neat, and watercolors are very cool, and lots of peoples' art is awesome even when the medium doesn't catch her eye. After a bit, she notices a woman tucked away in a corner embroidering; this is fascinating, and she sits and watches for a bit before starscaping some onto her outfit (indigo swirls, on the leggings, the same color as the underlying fabric but just shiny enough to catch the eye; some swirls at the hem of the shirt, too, and on the shoulders where the indigo ruffles of the sleeves join the main body; bright highlights to the clouds on the main body of the shirt; silver-blue detailing on the finger bits of her gloves) and making herself cartoon versions of the supplies to give it a try with.

Her hand-eye coordination is too bad for this to go very well; she keeps at it for a little while but then moves on to give watercolors a try, which is much more forgiving.

Embroidery lady smiles at the new swirls on Dusk's outfit. The watercolors are easily swirled around on the paper Julie brought.

She sticks to watercolors for the rest of the meet; she can make arbitrary stencils and blocking pieces with her cartoon power, and gets some cool results that way.

There's a place to hang things up to dry. "We can collect yours after services if you want to keep them and stick them up at home," says Julie.

Yeah, she'd like that.

"Then we'll take 'em home tomorrow." They've been attending evening services so Dusk doesn't have to get up in the morning.

They go home and Julie throws some potatoes and chicken and broccoli on a sheet pan to roast; Winona comes home before it's out.

Hug!

Hug! "How was the art meet?"

Pretty! She did watercoloring; she likes that.

"Oooh, we can put it on the fridge when we bring it home tomorrow."

Yeah!

Dinner emerges from the oven; some of the potatoes are a little underdone and after everything else is served they go back in for another five minutes.

Huh, okay.

After dinner she's in the mood for some reading.

She has plenty of books! And access to Winona's Kindle.