[b][i] – Leroy[/i][/b]

[i]‘So he’s playing detective to figure out just when and why the girl got younger and suffers amnesia?’[/i] Leroy thought, organizing the information in his head. [i]‘It’s an okay story, but the demon and dragon stuff sounded more interesting.’[/i] Despite his talent for art, perhaps he could have also benefited from pursuing a career in acting as well. He had completely lost interest in the dark-haired boy’s situation, but his smile never faltered and he kept up his helpful attitude. Then again, he could probably only play the role of some happy lad or… A pathological liar. “A deal’s a deal. I’ll first draw out a few face shapes, eyes, nose, and mouth. Pick the closest one from each and we’ll start tweaking the details out from there.”

Pushing the ink palette aside, he reached into his backpack and pulled out a graphite pencil and eraser. Having already given Carmen the painting, his sketchbook was all ready for him on a fresh blank page. He drew 3 sets of eyes: “cat eyes” with the outer corners of the eyes tilted up, “droopy eyes” with the outer corners of the eyes lower down, and a balanced set with no particular tilt to the eyes. Next was a large variety of noses ranging from noses hooking down to almost comically up-turned noses resembling a small pig’s snout. For the mouths he had quite a variety ranging in thickness of the lips, shape, and how deep the arches were. Finally, the remaining space on the paper was filled up with blank heads depicting round, heart-shaped, square-ish, long, diamond, and oval face shapes.

Ripping the page out, Leroy set the drawings on the floor where the dark-haired boy could see and asked, “So point out the features that resemble the girl the most and tell me what I need to change to make it look more like her. Oh, and describe her hairstyle too.”

Holding the sketchbook out on another fresh page, he got his pencil ready in his left hand for the dark-haired boy’s instructions. He became momentarily distracted by another arrival.

[b] "Wow, it really was fixed in here!" [/b]

“Hey, sounds like he was at the party.” Leroy said, pointing in the purple-haired boy’s direction with the end of his pencil. “Just get me started and you can go ask him about the girl. It’ll take me a bit to sketch it all out anyway.”