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moonlight.
    But all else was dark around the scene. Tina immersed herself in the scene, getting lost in its depths.
    It made her happy to see the union of fairy and unicorn. Each new layer of paint seemed to offer Tina a new temptation to explore further.
    It took her ages to finish the picture, but she was pleased with the end result.
    Her next project was to find out where they were headed. A sunset appeared, and the fairy was riding the unicorn this time.
    In the distance, along the horizon was a beautiful castle, white with a faint blue shimmer, but golden in the sun’s dawning rays.
    The pair were travelling along a winding path towards the castle. She felt they’d been riding all night.
    Each day Tina would sit at her art desk, getting lost in the magical kingdom her brush created. She felt excited by the journey the fairy was on, and wanted to see where her next adventure would take her.
    The summer slipped by with Tina going on adventures conjured by her own hand.
    By the time she went back to college she was feeling much better. It was as if the drawings themselves were giving her hope, but the fairy castle was still a long way off.
    Tina sat in the library at college, perusing another art book. She was still keeping up with her official studies, but today she wanted to get some more ideas for her paintings.
    She was looking at some very menacing goblins when a male voice at her back startled her. She physically jumped as he said hello.
    “Sorry. I didn’t mean to make you jump,” the voice said.
    “Umm…I was just a bit lost. Sorry. Hello.”
    Tina stumbled across the words as the boy walked to her side and she looked up into a pair of smiling hazel eyes, which were just about visible through the curtain of a shaggy brown fringe.
    They were the kind of eyes that were framed with eyelashes which made their owner look like he was wearing mascara (which he wasn’t). He was beautiful.
    “Interesting friends you have there,” the boy commented, nodding at the goblins.
    Tina smiled bashfully, “Oh, they’re not friends. But they are interesting. I was thinking of using them in my next painting.”
    “You paint? I’ve not seen you in class.”
    “Oh, it’s just a hobby,” she admitted with a nervous laugh.
    “You have a hobby painting goblins?”
    “Not really. So far it’s a fairy and a unicorn.
    She blushed as she realised how girly and ridiculous that sounded. But to her amazement, the boy didn’t mock her.
    “Well, it sounds more cheerful than my vampires and demons. But sadly I’m having to do the token bowl of fruit for class. Just how clichéd? It’s really dull. I’m trying to find a way of livening it up. I came here for ideas.”
    “Well, everyone paints it just as they see it, right? So, I would paint them the wrong colours, like a green orange, or an orange banana.”
    “Hey, that’s not bad. Challenging the viewer’s perspective.”
    “Of course, if you like vampires, you could add fangs?”
    “I think that may be a little too challenging. Although I do like the idea of killer fruit,” he laughed.
    He laughed a little too loudly, and the girl sitting opposite glowered in his direction. The pair looked at each other with mock shocked expressions.
    “Oops. Maybe we should continue this conversation elsewhere?”
    “You don’t really want to do that.”
    “No? I thought I just said I did? My mistake.”
    “No. You will just end up regretting it. Trust me.”
    “Can I make up my own mind?”
    The other girl glowered again, and this time added a ‘shh!’
    Tina rolled her eyes, “Fine.”
    She picked up the book and checked it out before heading outside with…Who was he?
    “Ummm…I’m Tina,” she said as they stepped into the sunlight.
    “I’m Frank. Sorry, I probably should have said that already. It’s a bit difficult to talk properly in places like that.”
    He was wincing as the sun hit his eyes.
    “Oh gosh, you’re not an actual vampire yourself, are you,