Black Time

BPOV

i walked to an old lady who was at a desk in the corner. She smiled when she saw me and the others approached. 

"Hello dears, is there anything you want to do imparticular. Designing, Sculpting or Pottery making." The old lady said. I looked around there were large chunks of square stone in the corner.

"I'll do sculpting. Emily want to do that was well?" I asked, turning to Esme. She nodded. "Zafrina what do you want to do?" 

"Probably pottery making. Its fun, i have made many times before in the Amazons but it was usually made of a muddier version of this clay" She said inspecting the chunks in the bags. The old woman looked surprised but smiled. 

"Of cource" 

"Me and Kachiri will do pottery making too. Ethan you can help Lisa" Senna said giving Ethan a puppie dog look which he soon crumbled at. She pecked him on the lips and hugged him. 

"Is that all, ladies. sir" She asked, writing it down on a thick pad of paper.

"Yes ma'm.  Do we need to design what we're going to do before we choose the stone or after?" I asked. There were rectanguler shaped ones that stood 6 foot tall, a square ones just the same hight and some small ones that stood only a few feet tall.

"You decide" I nodded then sat at a table, where there was paper, pencils, rubbers and sharpeners. The others followed suit and sat down around the table. I felt some one looking at us. i turned to see some of the men in the black jackets looking at us. As soon as they saw i was watching they looked away.

"Humans" I muttered scornfully. The other laughed. I quickly sketched out a design. It was me and Esme standing arms over shoulders, like sisters. another was of Esme sitting cross legged and me sitting cross legged and the last design of us lying down as if we were sleeping. Esme looked over my shoulder at the designs.

"Why is it just you and me in your designs? Why not all of us?" She asked confused.

"Well i was thinking. I know that They. will eventually come round here. I was hoping that we can leave then a message. Or just creep them out" I said smiling evilly. i planed the illusion of what their face could look like if they saw the statues. They all laughed.

"Well i've done my designs" Zafrina said and walked over to a table with a clump of clay in a blue bag and tore some off them walked over to a potters wheel and started to make. Senna and Katchiri followed suite next to her. They chatted together. I turned to Ethan and Esme. i looked at their designs. Esme had drawn out a Cullen crest, A statue of her self her hand out as if to touch something, A drawing of me in the same portion. I looked at Ethan's. His was of Senna and himself, Me sitting down, holding my legs against my chest and large wings sprouting from my back, a sinister smile on my face.

"Serously" I said pointing to the picture.

"What. You said you wanted to creep them out" He said with an evil glint in his eye.

"Hummm" I agreed and pulled all the designs. Suddenly i found things in each drawing i liked. I quickly began to sketch bit and pieced from most of the designs. I ended up with the design of me and Esme, couched down so we were both on the balls of our feet. Our back had large wings on and  the  face of a sinister smile, Our arm out stretched, Palm facing up. Esme's with a bag on the top of her palm mine was outstretched, palm facing down , the clothes we were wearing were just a tank top, jeans and converse.

"Cool i like it" Esme commented, looking down.

"Awesome" Ethan said. i clapped my hands together.

"Alright i will work on the head, arms and chest, Esme you can work on the lower half and Ethan you can do the wings. But we can switch when we do the other. How does that sound?" I asked peering to their faces. They nodded and agreed . i smiled then ran to the large chunks of 6 ft rock. "Emily which is the best do you think?" i called back to her. To me they looked like large piece of rock. but i knew Esme would now which type and size. Esme came over and looked at them. After a few moments she walked over to a rock that was smaller but also bigger in width than length.

"This is a good one not too big and not to thin either." Esme commented, walking around it; examining it closely.

"Oh good. I'll find the equuptment"

"Too late i got it" Ethan called. Pulling behind him a cart with lots of different types of chisal, Hammers. Of cource not all stone crafting was all just hammer and chisal. It was techneique as well. Slowly we pushed the rock into a space, looking as if it was very heavy but it was very light to us. Ok how to start. 

"Ok first we have to cut it down in a human like shape but leave a bit at the back for the wings ok" They all nodded. We all took a chisal and got to work.

*

We all stepped back and admired the work so far. We had now cut the shape into a person like thing but all it needed now was smoothness and detail. I quickly began woking on the face. We had desided to do Esme first, so now i was working on her face. It was almost perfect, i had creted her hair so it was down over her shoulders, her face was now smooth, i had done the eyes with out doing the pupil or the iris. i thought i would do that last. depending where it suited or not. i knew some statues didn't have iris or pupils either so it didn't matter. i quickly started oh her shoulder and carefuly did the creases in the top. it wanted it to look as real as possible. Ethen had done very well on the wings, they looked like they were almost feathers, they wearn't too big or too small, just right too. Esme was also doing a very good job. the creases in the tousers would have been very diffcult. even when the knees were bent and closer together. I heard a gasp. Instantly i jumped and looked around, luckily i didn't hammer at the time. i was so absorbed in my work i didn't notice the old woman come closer. 

"Its brilliant" She whispered comign even closer. er were fin fact nearly done, just need to staiten out a few wrough edges. i looked at the clock. We had been here for a good few hours. But the groupl of men were still here since i could still hear them. I knew the girl and and woman had left. Senna and Zafrina was still making things from clay, there were vases, bowls, plates and mugs. some of them fired and pained some in the middle of being painted. Obviously carred on becasue we were busy. 

"Err thanks. its not quite done yet. We just need to do a bit more detail then were done." I said pointed it out. In the stone Esme's hand was still a piece of rock that hasn't been sculped into small bag. Of course Esme was going to put a little message in it but the humans wouldn't notice it. The old woman nodded but i could tell she did think it was done already.

*

Now we were done. It now looked offially perfect. Esme had wriiten two words that would be in the bag on a piece of papter. I knew when they read it they would know she was alive. They couldn't mistake her hand writing. Carlisle knew it anywhere.

"DONE" I called to the others. They filed in. The group of men too. i knew they stuck around to see what we were doing. They gasped at the sight. "Tomorrow we're doing another one, but we have to leave this one here" I said, looking at the old woman. She nodded.

"Ok i just need to clean our selves up and we can pay and comeback tomorrow' Esme said ducing her self off.  I took a plain white sheet and threw it over the top of the statue, much to everyone elses protest. i rolled my eyes and exied to the rest rooms. Esme and Ethan following (Ethan going into the mens restroom).