"She's dark-skinned after this girl I've been crushing on at work. Maybe after this I'll get up the nerve to ask her out, hm?"

"The Rose Bowers does do that to people. Can you show me how to blend now?"

"Certainly. You just take the blending agent and smear it onto once of these smudge sticks, and then rub that over the paper in the little areas of the same color to blend it and get the color down into the kerf..."

Tasha smiles as she goes through the motions. She's a quick learner.

Audrey's settled in to her rhythm now, and teaches burnishing equally well.

Tasha finishes her rose beautifully.

"And that's almost our time. How was it?"

"Surprisingly easy, actually? It went okay."

"Just a mental block you had, is all. Coloring doesn't have to be scary. You can share it with others."

"I guess so. We did that here, at least..."

"You're a brave girl. I'm sure you can manage. Do you want to book another appointment now?"

"No thank you, this was quite enough for right now."

"Enjoy your stay at the Rose Bowers." She curtseys, and sweeps out.

Well that was surprisingly tolerable.

... she had better call Hannah. 

"Hey, is this Audrey?"

"Yeah! I'm out of therapy now."

"Get back here, would you? You totally skipped out on aftercare."

Wince. "Yeah I did, didn't I. Sorry."

"We were fine together, but ask. And budget your time more sensibly."

"Okay. I'll keep it in mind."

"Don't 'keep it in mind', do it. You could really hurt someone, skipping out like that."

"I said I'm sorry, okay?"

Sigh. "Okay. But really, don't do it again."

"I'll do my best."

"I've got Kumi for you."