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D: you can do it! wc: 356
Skye looked over at Pixie's back to see the tattoo that her friend had gotten. It indeed looked like a flying bird, with spread out appendages that looked like wings with the feathers splayed, prepared to take off or land. She giggled at Pixie's joke about how she shouldn't have put it on her back, but Skye thought it was a perfect place for it to be. She nodded when she said that Ouija must have done a good design - he had, and Skye would remember that.
"Keep your horse in your house, if you don't want to lose him, maybe?" Skye wasn't sure - she was sure that a horse would fit in her own house, but she didn't know how large Pixie's was, or if the horse would like it there. Surely if, during the winter, there was a storm, the horse would gladly have protection from it. She understood when Pixie said she hated being inside - Skye herself liked the wide open spaces of Cercatori d'Arte. And, of course, her garden.
Skye nodded. When she was little and didn't know how to read or write yet, she would draw pictures in the sand or dirt or her notepad, reflecting how she felt about them. Usually they'd be illustrated pictures describing her day, or the way she did something. Sometimes she would just draw for the sake of drawing, adding many details as well as shading and other things like that. Skye still drew, although for her primary use of communication now, she used words and writing. No pictographs for Skye.
Skye was happy that Pixie was catching onto her lessons quickly; she quickly grasped the concept of sentences and letters and words, and as Skye described the more complicated parts of the craft of writing, such as homographs and synonyms, she listened with an adept student-like awareness. Skye wrapped up the lesson by adding another word or two about sounds that have two letters mixed together such as 'th' or 'ch'. She grinned at Pixie. "You're great at learning," she said earnestly.