SPOILER!!: Lex!
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Originally Posted by
DaniDiNardo 
She'd been happy enough feeding the flesh eaters earlier but then they'd moved to some note taking that she was almost sure she wouldn't be bothered with scribbling down...until the Professor began talking and half of it actually sounded interesting. Though...she did wonder, wasn't it bad karma eating a fairy? They were so....well...they were fairies. It was like punching a Puffer. They were just some things that you didn't do because they weren't good ideas but whatever plant. Do whatchu have to do.
Finally moving on to more action, Lex slapped on the gloves that she'd been waiting til now to put on. No sense having them on while she was writing, they'd just get in the way or something.
With the gloves secured she walked over to the orchid plant thingy with her jar and swab that had...fairy DNA on it? "Professor? How'd you get the fairy DNA on the swabs?" Just a curious question as she ran it along the orchids flower. It was meant to start secreting stuff and she could bet it would feel cheated by the end of all of this but that wasn't her problem. Nope. She collected the resin as it trickled slowly into her jar.
Was this enough? It didn't seem like more was coming so she waited for the next set of intructions.
It didn't surprise her that the question was repeated. Seren chalked this down to being shock related... or curiosity and distractedness if nothing else. When it came to Lex, it was hard to tell, she didn't appear to be shocked, so Seren could only hazard a guess that the prefect had been off in her own little world... off with the fairies so to speak.
"Simply by rubbing the swab on them," she replied with a nod. Easy peasy.
SPOILER!!: Cris
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Originally Posted by
FireboltAvis88 Cris listened attentively as Professor Bentley replied to his answer. He breathed a sigh of relief. Being petrified and not knowing that you were, was definitely lots better than the way he had envisioned the fairies would be suffering.
"Thank you for clarifying that for me, Professor. At least it was painless. That's all that matters," Cris smiled and nodded his thanks.
....and then it was time for them to begin removing the resin. Cris watched closely as Professor Bentley demonstrated the proper way to do it. On hearing that the resin was a messy substance, Cris was glad he had his dragon hide gloves on. He picked up his quill and took notes as the Professor first showed how to get the flower to excrete the resin using the swab, and then how to collect it.
Then it was their time to carry out the task. Reviewing his notes, Cris reached for a swab and began to rub it against the column of the flower ever so gently over and over again until something sticky began oozing out from the top. It was purplish in color so Cris assumed that it had to be the resin.
He quickly reached for a jar, and placed it under the lip of the orchid's petals as he slowly pulled up on the swab. He watched patiently as the resin first trickled out a drop in intervals into the jar, before beginning a steady trickle flow. He continued to hold it in place until the last drop fell and the surface of the resin began to harden. He then removed his swab and looked up at the Professor, waiting to hear what she would tell them to do next.
Grinning at his thanks, Seren opted not to comment any further on the matter. No. No harm had come to the fairies... but considering the nature of most of the plants in the greenhouse they were standing in, did it really matter? Hadn't they just sacrificed other creatures and insects to the plants for feeding. Was a fairy so different?
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Yep, moving on.
SPOILER!!: Arista
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Originally Posted by
Luna_Midnight Fairy DNA? How in the world did they do that? Hearing another student ask that question she sent her gaze over to Professor Bentley, awaiting the answer. Arista picked up the swab in front of her and looked at it curiously.
They would lick or spit on it.... Could they do that? That was odd.. But really awesome!! The little lion watched Bentley's demonstration with interest and when the Professor finished, Arista grabbed hold of her jar and brought it close to her. She was soooo doing this thing!! She grinned and looked down at it.
Rubbing the swab very gently on the orchid's column, the first year watched waiting for the thing to ooze... "Pwease give me you DNA, fairy!!" she smiled.
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....... Seren watched curiously, her own resin perfectly solid now that she'd let it stand idle.
Was Arista asking something of the fairy? A fairy? The preserved fairies?
She was just going to continue observing... .... or well, considering everyone looked about ready to continue.. that too.
"Because there are only trace amounts of the dna on the swab, the resin isn't as free flowing as it would otherwise be, however, there are tips and tricks to extracting greater quantities." Which is what they were learning how to do. Exciting, no?
Taking up her scalpel and holding it up in front of her, she then set about demonstrating the next step.
"So the next thing we need to do, is make an incision along the length of the hardened resin, get as close to the column as you can without cutting into it. If you do cut into it, it's not the end of the world, but please refrain from being heavy handed...." Holding the orchid flower in the palm of one hand, Seren used the scalpel in the other to make a careful and deliberate incision through the drying thick resin, almost as if she was cutting into flesh itself. Nothing oozed, it was solid, but the cut could be clearly seen.
"Do this, and then we'll move on," she instructed.
OOC: Next step to follow in approx 23 hours.