"Can I paint you?" Maddie asked. Her intimidating expression disappeared and the only emotion she had was adoration. Athasia was taken aback a little. Why would Maddie want to paint her? That was the question that came into her mind.
"Why me? You have lots of people you can paint." Athasia said.
"Because, you are beautiful!" Maddie said. The color in her cheeks made her appear even prettier.
Athasia felt nervous about being painted. She doesn't like showing her face to someone else and especially not when there was someone new, but if Maddie thinks that she was beautiful why wouldn't she trust her words. Besides, this wasn't something new. She was painted before and it didn't end up very well.
And so she said yes.
