"Oh! Why hello, friend. Welcome, come in! Come in!

"Ah, a splendid night it is. And what has brought you here to my little library? Do you wish to hear a story? Perhaps a tale from my youth, when I was barely an owlet and a pupil under the great Master Scribe Buboctavius VIII? Ah, I was still learning the most basic of scripts...Master Buboctavius was so furious when I broke his prized phoenix quill and spilled an entire jar of ink on a whole sheet of vellum---!

"Oh? What's that? My midnight tidbits are scurrying away? Oh dear, I suppose it cannot be helped. I have far too many words to write and the moon is dipping down. Dawn shall soon be upon us and I must not fall behind."

Watercolor and colored pencil on hot-press Fabriano, 5 X 9 inches