Fight the break of dawn

She could get used to this, she decided - even more so than she had this season. Things had always been pleasant between she and Tal, but in recent weeks she'd been comfortable and confident in a way that no one else could coax from her. As they settled on the floor together, hunched over her sketch, she glanced sidelong at him, hoping that her hasty attempts at capturing their shared space would meet his expectations. It turned out she was worried for nothing. Tal's eyes lit up, and she grinned as she placed a few final lines on the shop side of the sketch - a counter, a sitting area, and a few rows of shelves, building an image both on paper and in her mind of what it might look like. She'd never dared to dream of designing her own shop from the ground up, and yet... "Perfect," she murmured, flipping to a new page and beginning to sketch in a block to represent the upstairs. That would arguably be the more complicated space to build, but she wasn't worried. She wasn't particularly picky, so long as they had the basics. As for the shop, though, she flipped back to the original sketch. "The shop doesn't need to be huge, but I was thinking of having a sitting area for readings, then some shelves to stock a few things." Herbs, crystals, maybe some of the tarot decks she'd designed herself... "I'd only need a little bit of space in the back, just to store any extra items." At the suggestion that she sell her art, she shrugged before nudging him back. "I've got a few custom tarot decks I've been working on," she admitted. "And... I could use the walls to display art pieces..." If they were good enough. She still wasn't entirely convinced. alys glasse