He'd felt like demiguise turd that day they'd begun their illuminated manuscripts and thus not much progress had been made. Cutty was tempted to just scrap the whole thing and start again. He turned to go to the supply closet but casually meandered toward the barre. What the hey! Oh! This was that thing that Agatha used. "Hehe." He let out a short chortle and slung one of his long legs over the barre anchoring his ankle between it and the mirrored wall. He lifted a long-fingered hand above his head and bent forward only to have his eyes fling WIDE open at the amount of uncomfortableness such a maneuver had caused him.

Breathing shallowly and rapidly, Cutty slooowly removed himself from the barre and refocused aiming for the supply closet like a good boy is supposed to do. He flung open the doors and grabbed parchment, a pencil, and eraser, scissors and decorative paper. He had devised a method that he thought would work.

Knowing that no matter how he went about writing his own life story, his own name would be the very first word in it. He carried the items over to a chair and work surface then used his wand to summon his bag. He opened it up and pulled out a long thin book detailing motifs throughout Egyptian history. He had checked it out of the library trying to design a wax seal for himself before he sent away a letter to Lucia Clark. He wanted to look as pro as possible.

He'd flagged some of his favourites and flipped open the book to a cobra's head in profile. The curve on the other side of it, he thought looked quite like a C and could be made to look even more so with some additions. Using his entire sheet of parchment, Cutty copied the cobra head onto it and when he was satisfied with look of it, he went over the outline with blank ink from his bag. "Siccus Aerous." He never got over how useful that spell Professor Bentley had taught them was and he used it just now to quickly dry and set his image. He'd forgotten colours. So he went back and he chose a red, and an olive green as well as a blue and used the red and blue sparingly as accents whilst the cobra's body was covered in the olive green. The hood on the underside as well as the eye were done in the gold ink. The giant, almost muscular C was done in the red colour and outlined likewise in the black ink. He stopped to check it over. The only thing that he thought was missing was a flicking snake tongue, which he added with the black ink.

Cutty applied the drying spell and then whilst tracing over the tongue of the snake, he muttered the incantation for motion. "Animatae." He said. The cobra's tongue flickered up, down and into and outside of the mouth. With his wand still in hand he cut out a shape of the decorative paper and affixed it to some of the dead space. "Diminuendo." The cobra's head C was done and he placed it on to another sheet of parchment to begin his story.