Chapter twenty one: Snowman.
Raven gently smoothed around the edges of her masterpiece. The Titans always had a snowman-making competition. Usually she opted out, and Robin and Starfire went head to head with Beast Boy and Cyborg. But over recent months Raven had found a new love for many different art forms, sculpture included. She found it therapeutic and fulfilling to create something entirely her own from her own imagination. She liked the idea that she too could create something of beauty. And though she'd never made a snowman before, her new love for artistic endeavours had her eager to give it a try. Cyborg was off with Titans East helping Bumble Bee plan the Titan Christmas party, so Beast Boy was partnered up with Raven for the snowman making.
He showed her how to rapidly and effective create large snowballs, and the best ways to stack them upon one another, after he assembled the three-ball figure, Raven went about smoothing it over and marking out the features, she sent Beast Boy to retrieve branches for the arms. Raven worked vigorously, brushing over the snow head with gloved hands, scraping holes for eyes and nose and melting what she didn't need with wool covered fingers. By the time Beast Boy returned the man actually resembled a man, in the face at least. Raven had carved out eye sockets and a brow line, a long thin nose, and had drawn a haphazard line where the mouth would be, having not gotten that far in her work yet.
Beast Boy stood back in awe, giving an appreciative nod before stepping forward to hand her the branches, she immediately fixed them in place. He handed her some acorns he'd happened across and she wordless fixed them into the makeshift eye sockets. So engrossed was she in her work that she uttered not a word, her brow furrowed in concentration as she slaved.
When she believed herself to be finished she took a step back and Beast Boy wrapped his scarf around the snow sculptures neck, adding that finishing touch. The pair glanced over at their competitors, and their standard three-ball, carrot-nose snowman, and smiled at each other in triumph.