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Pencil sketch of a winged fairy

Fine line · Black and grey · Flash

A pencil drawing of a winged fairy figure with its head bowed and one arm raised above it, holding a small star-like shape. Both wings are outlined with light, sketchy strokes, and decorative swirls run along the wing edges and down the flowing body. The image is in greyscale graphite on white paper, with a centred composition and no shading beyond faint hatching.

Fine line Fairy Wing Swirl Star Sketch

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Nobody had kept the paper star from the Year Nine nativity, but Marcia still had the wire frame, and she waved it at me across the function room of the Crown like a flag of surrender. We were forty-odd years older than the girls who had stood on that stage, the carpets had changed, but the fairy was still the one thing everyone remembered. Gemma Holloway had been the fairy.

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The fairy had one job: lift the cardboard star above her head when the shepherds knelt, and hold it there while the headmistress counted to twenty. Gemma practised in the dinner hall for a month, standing on a radiator to reach the beam and making us swear we would not tell Mr Ashby. On the night her arm shook so badly the star wobbled, and half the hall laughed, but she kept it up anyway, head bowed, until the count was done.

Marcia passed me the frame over the sausage rolls. Gemma had left the school the summer after, and the last anyone heard she was working on a lighthouse up the coast. I turned the wire over and found, scratched near the join with a compass point, a ring of tiny swirls and a G. Nobody in that room had known about that. I asked who had seen her last, and no one answered until the door at the back opened and a woman in a wet raincoat stood there with her arm raised, a folded umbrella held up like a star.