Okay, this chapter is incredibly and unforgivably brief, I know. But I realized (thanks to Anne Gable) that I had made a giant mistake: I didn't show Kitty's reaction to the drawing. So, with many apologies and a big thank-you to Anne, here it is.
:)
Kitty's POV.
I took a deep breath. My idea had sparked so quickly that I wasn't able to concentrate on the portrait. I quelled my excitement and looked back down at the sketchbook.
As always, the lines were perfect. The shading was perfect. But there was something about this particular drawing that made it different. I unconciously leaned closer.
And then I realized how much it must have hurt Nathaniel to see me like this. That feeling was what this picture was meant to convey. His pain, how he had ached when he thought I was dead. The same way I had felt when the Glass Palace was destroyed.
I had managed to inflict that kind of agony on someone. And now that I had experienced it myself, my heart ached for him.
Seeing the one you love lying on the ground -or blown up with a million shards of glass and iron- is not a pleasant experience.
So this drawing did not reveal a facet of me, did not accent a particular feature, but instead showed me the full effect I had on Nataniel. Part of the reason that he had come back.
But realizing this did not enable me to see him.
And that was where my idea came into play.