SPOILER!!: Nesting Puff Girls
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iceblossom22 
Elise glanced at Sierra nervously before letting go of the lettuce. Could that one leaf actually persuade the puffball to leave her hair? What she really wanted to know was what made the stupid ball of fluff want to stay in her hair so badly that it wouldn't let go? It had months of winter left till its mating season, anyway!
Nodding stiffly, she winced in pain as it yanked on her head yet again. OUCH! Just as Sierra started inching the lettuce towards her hair, WWW decided to narrate her disaster to the whole class. Joy. Now this'd be a classwide dilemma. Shooting a deathly glare at him for just a second, she turned her gaze back to the lettuce. Inching closer and closer towards the pygmy puff and... She jerked it away. Then moved it close again. Sierra sure was smart.
Honey the Pygmy Puff was perfectly content to stay in its nest. Look, the next matched her fluff-fur perfectly. See, you other lame pygmies? I git the best nest here! Oooooh! Look, that human with the black nest on her head was giving her food too! Best day ever! Eyeing the food as it inched towards her, she narrowed her eyes slightly as it was jerked away. Oh, look. It's back. Super long tongue even for a female pygmy puff moving outwards, it wrapped itself around the top half of the leaf, snapped it and pulled it back in. Yummy. Do you perhaps have more, human girl?
SQUEAK!
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Anna Banana Wait...
What?!
He was announcing this to the whole class?! Sierra drew back on the lettuce and turned her head sharply in WWW's direction. She could have done without the loud introduction. Then again, if this worked out, it was a great way to receive all the glory. So for that, she grinned then turned back to the Pygmy Puff.
Sierra wasn't expecting the Pygmy Puff to attack the lettuce with its tongue. She jerked the lettuce back just in time to manage to keep half of it while the Pygmy Puff took the rest. "Theory works," she said out loud, "but it's still in her hair." She pushed herself out of her seat then walked a good row over, positioned herself in a new seat so the creature could properly see the lettuce. "You want it, you come and get it."
The Pygmy Puff couldn't understand her words, of course, but it would have to have an intelligence less than that of a flobberworms not to understand it had to come and get the rest of the lettuce.
"Keep it up now, Greingoth, you're almost there," Williamson encouraged, half in his narrator voice and half in his usual teacher voice. He kept an eye on them as he collected a few more parchments and then answered Minerva's question.
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Bazinga Minerva thought about this for a bit and then put her hand up. "Professor what type of spells would you try? Wouldn't you be afraid to do something that might scare or harm the little things?"
"Good... question," Willy answered, rubbing at his chin thoughtfully, "but I'll admit that I'm not sure how to respond." Heh. "You wouldn't want to scare them, no, but I'm sure a simple levitating charm wouldn't be too bad. Or maybe something that tickles them, like rictumsepra." Simple stuff. "I'd recommend asking Professor Schirmer for more ideas."
Yeah, spells were not his strong suit. Creatures were, and speaking of creatures, it was high time his class moved on!
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"All right, guys, while we let Sierra and Elise figure out that situation over there," he gestured toward the nest mess that was Elise's head, "we're going to start pygmy puff bowling."
Yes, that was right: pygmy puff bowling. "Now then, over there," he gestured over his shoulder with his thumb to a section of the barn they hadn't yet explored, "I've sent up a small bowling alley for you and your puffs to try. The catch is: I have no bowling balls. The BALLS are going to be YOUR pygmy puffs!"
Williamson beamed at them proudly, as if this idea was just SO genius. Heh. "Don't worry about hurting them; I'm about as big an animal rights activist as you can find." Totally true. "AND I've charmed the floor to be squishy soft, like a carpet made of moss. Same goes for the bowling pins." The pins actually felt more like stiff mattresses or foam pillows than anything.
"Your puffs will enjoy rolling down the lane, trust me, I've already tested it out with Nacho." William plucked the puff down from his head and moved over to the area where about five bowling lanes were set up. "Pair up with a few people and see how good you can do. Make sure to explain to your pygmy puff what's going on, so that they can help you win. Puffs are good at controlling their rolls, and if you're nicer to them, you just might have a better chance of getting a strike."
He smiled around at them all and waited for the blank stares to subside. "Any questions? If not, you may begin!" And maybe then he'd go help the nesting head puff girl thing.