"Actually... it's not forbidden."
The teacher finally relents and allows Pencilita to paint if she wants to.
With a beaming face, the little pencil girl takes out brushes and tubes of paint from her bag, arranges them neatly on her desk and smooths out a sheet of paper in front of her. The other pencil children gather curiously around her.
Stuffie whispers to Tessa.
"I wonder what she is going to paint?"