"Yes we should, maybe that would help her. What is your niece's name? Jeni's is Jenesis Black."

Liz Ann Merelda. Similar to mine, since we both go by Liz but My full name is Lizbeth Francoise Merelda

Checking to see if her email, had anything new it, Liz stands up to stretch a little. And walks over to the water cooler.

Teal rubbed his eye's for a moment once he exited his office and headed down towards Werewolf Registry. With the Convention coming up, he had no time for rest. It was GO GO GO all day long, but it was probably his fault... being that procrastinator that he always has been.

He opened the door with a notebook and quill tucked under his left arm, once he entered he spotted two of his employee's. Perfect. "Good day Ms. Merelda and Ms. Black." he said in a forced, cheery tone as he opened the notebook. "I'm afraid there are a few things that we need to go over real quick if you could just join me over here at this table." He said, walking over to an open table, pulling out the chair, and sitting down.

"Sure can!" Liz says as she grabs a notebook, and a self inking quill.

Liz walks over and pulls out a chair, placing her notebook and quill on the table. She takes a seat.




ooc: I believe Star has left, and isn't returning any time soon, sorry. She left a few months ago, and we haven't seen her since.

"Exellent." Teal droned as he took another sip of his coffee and rubbed his eye's, it had been a long day of work and he was getting very tired. He pulled out his folder and opened it up, flipping to the correct section and squinted to read what he needed to announce. "Alright, first of all I'd like to give a hats off to your efficiency in this office, and after I talk to the Minister, I'd like to have them give you a raise in your salary." he said with a cheerful wink, he really was proud of the girl.

"But I'm afraid that is going to have to hold off until after the Internation Wizarding Convention that is just around the corner." He said slightly panicked, there was alot that needed to get done before it started. "As of late, there has been controversy in the way we classify our werewolves." He said, pausing for a moment to take a sip of his coffee. "Due to wolfsbane potion, the problem of werewolf attacks has considerably dropped. Thus, we need to resolve a better way to classify werewolves. I have always thought of them to be beings, not beasts. But I would like your opinion in the matter, you have been successful in this Division, and I would really like your input." he said, wide eyed and slightly manic as he took another large swig of his coffee.

ooc: ok, thanks for telling me.

"Wow! I didn't realize that the minister..., What a raise! Wow!" Liz stammers.

"I do agree with you, about the way we have been classifying them. Even though all these creatures are werewolves, there are different levels. I mean if you remember Remus Lupin, he was a werewolf, but he was very well able to join in with other witches and wizards without being a threat." Liz comments.

"But just recently," Liz continues "Hermann Kern another werewolf, was finally brought in, and hasn't been on the wolfsbane potion, because we hadn't been able to get him to come in on his own. And he has been a threat to people, especially children."

"I personally think there should be different levels of classifications, in this registry. Not every creature should be classified the same." Liz pauses.

Teal smiled at her reaction, he knew she'd like that. "Yes, you've deserved it." he said with a smile, before looking at the folding moving on to important matters that had to be resolved quickly.

Teal nodded with Liz at each word she said, he really did agree in most every aspect. Werewolves were eventually people, why would that have to change once they were bitten. Teal took a quick sip of his coffee and rubbed his eye's before continueing. "I agree with you, absolutely." he said with a weak smile, "Research has shown that if the werewolf was bitten as a child, as you mentioned Remus Lupin, then they are forced to learn how to handle their status as a werewolf. Therefore they are much more civil and much more keen to take wolfsbane. However, if a many in his twenties or beyond is bitten, then he is humiliated and figures his life ruined, therefore he is much more likely to wreak havoc." He finished, with another quick sip of his coffee.

Teal looked around the room and sighed, knowing that it wasn't going to be hard to organize this, "And then again what makes our job difficult, is the exceptions. Research always has his flaws, and we are both well aware of the fact these flaws exist in the Werewolf Resitry System." He said, pressing his lips together tightly. "I think here in the United Kingdom, we should set up interviews within the Ministry, so we can evaluate the person and decide if he or she, is a beast or a being." he said, scratching his chin at the thought. "But this is all merely speculation, do you have your opinions?" he said, deeply interested.

Thinking for a moment, at what Teal had just said, Liz agrees "I think that would definitely be a first step. It would definitely help us to distinguish those gone bad from the wonderful people that were unfortunate to get bitten."

"It would also improve not only their status but also their view of our ministry too!" Liz says with a grim smile. "Not everyone is too thrilled about some of the things we have done or accomplished, unfortunately."

"How soon, do you think this may start?"

Drago made his way into the office and looked around. It was certainly... different. He'd gotten so used to the Department of Mysteries, despite his 'wonderful' time in the Planet Room and his envy towards Slade for getting to play with Death. "Just transferred," he said stoically. "Are we busy, or just waiting?"

Rowan closed her eyes and took a deep breath to try and calm herself. The was slowly but steadily making it's way to level 4. She alone except for the few memos that were flying over her head. She reached up and made sure her hair was still in place. The debate over whether she should wear it up or down had kept her up most of the night. Not one to get easily flustered, she found it disconcerting that she was so nervous now. But she wanted this job and was praying that it went well.

The lift finally came to a stop and the doors opened. Rowan turned and started walking down the hall. Finding the door to the Werewolf Registery Office was easy enough. Gathering her courage she opened the door and stepped into the office. Upon first glance she thought she was alone till two voices registered.

Over at a table sat two individuals. Both had quills and parchment and seemed to be deep in discussion.

"Great," she thought, "First day in and I'm already late for a meeting. Well it might not concern me, who knows? Alrighty, where do I go from here?"

Seeing a seat against the wall next to the door she had just come in, she quietly sat down to wait.

"I'll just wait till there done." she thought. Odd that if this were anywhere else she would have walked up gladly and introduced herself. Here however, she was gonna have to curb her "butterfly" tendencies until she got a feel for how things were done. *sigh*

"Pardon me one moment, Teal, I think our new employee just entered our office. I want to make sure she finds everything all right, and I'll be right back."

Standing up and walking over to the lady who just walked in and sat down.

"Good morning, you must be Rowan Cromwell. My name is Liz Beth Merelda. We were just talking about some changes, that may be happening soon. But your welcome to just get yourself situated, if you'll follow me, I'll show you your desk!" Liz says turning toward the desks.

Speaking over her shoulder, she says "Star Black is another employee in this office." Pointing out Star's desk. "Unfortunately, right now Star is on a leave of absense, indefinitely right now, and we're not sure when she will be back." Pointing to the one across from Stars, "And this one is mine".

"Finally, this one will be your desk. I'm sure you will have fun setting it up to your liking!" Liz says with a smile.

Teal smiled as she mentioned the improvements to the Ministry. "Precisely, plus their overall well being which is our main aim." he said with a decisive nod, checking a few things on his paper, then looking up to Liz giving her a nod. At her question about how soon these things would begin, Teal sighed and looked at the nearest calender. "I'd say definitely within the next week or two, so we really need to get busy." he said, taking a look at his watch and noticing that he needed to get going.

Just as he did that, he saw that someone else had just walked in the room. Once she had sat down, Teal smiled as he was quite positive that it was his new employee in Werewolf Registry. Perfect. Teal nodded as Liz said she was going to settle the new girl in, and he got up as well and watched as she helped the new woman to her desk. Once she was finished, Teal gave Liz a nod and walked up to the new employee himself.

"Good to have you Ms. Cromwell." Teal said with a nod, offering his hand out to shake. "I am your Department Head, Teal Andrus." he said with a nod, looking at his watch and noticing that he was running late for a meeting. "Ah, I've gotta run. Fixing to be late to a meeting." he said, grimacing for just a moment. "Sorry this is so short notice, but both of you be expecting a memo within the next few hours. I'd like to have a meeting in the Conference Room tomorrow along with Werewolf Capture so we can get all of this under control." He said with a nod, making a mental note to write the memo's later. "Pleasure to meet you Ms. Cromwell, I hope your first day is going well." he said with a wink, and with that he turned around and departed from the room at a brisk walk.

Teal knew he was getting a new employee in Werewolf Capture, and a experienced one at that. But today he was more than a few minutes late, it had been a day full of long meetings and endless paperwork; and a hefty load of coffee as well. He rubbed his eyes as he walked up to the werewolf Registry offices; soon turning the handle and walking into the room.

He took a very brief look around and instantly noticed the not so familiar face. Teal took a brief swig of the coffee and approached the man, they didn't have a lot of time before the conference and they had quite a bit of research to accomplish. "Ah, you must be... Mr. Carracio. Right?" Teal asked with a tired expression, yet eye's that still shined with interest.

Allison blinked the first time she heard the door open, but the second time she couldn’t resist looking up. She only spared the two a quick glance before going back to her work. Everything had been pretty quiet before the random big rush came in. She relaxed back into her chair, taking a quick breath.

He turned to see Teal walk into the room and approach him. He nodded to the man and held out a hand to him. "I am. Drago Carracio, at your service." The name still sounded somewhat foreign to him, particularly introducing himself as such, but it also felt necessary. Armand Erikson had died those months ago. Strangely, he responded to it easily.

He easily recognized the expression on the man's face from years of working with Slade. "Long day? Week? Existence?"

Rowan was pulled from her thoughts when the woman at the table stood up and walked toward her. Rowan stood up gracefully. She quickly used one hand to smooth out the front of her robes and used the other to secure her bag over her shoulder. The woman introduced herself as Liz Merelda and proceded to show her to her desk. She smiled at the end of her small introductions. Rowan liked her smile. It was friendly and open.

Smiling in response Rowan stuck out her hand. "Thank you. And it's nice to meet you Ms. Merelda."

Rowan sensed the other person in the room had gotten up and was headed toward her as well. She turned around to face him. The department head introduced himself. Rowan shook his pro-offered and listened as he too introduced himself.

"Thank you. I am happy to be here and it's nice to meet you as well. Please call me Rowan." She could tell Mr. Andrus had a lot on his plate and her suspicions were confirmed when he said his final welcome and departed from the room at a brisk pace.

Well if everyday is like this, then I at least shall never be bored. She thought.

Rowan turned back to her desk. She felt slightly awkward standing there with Ms. Merelda. She fished around for something to say and came up with nothing.

What's wrong with me! I'm not usually this lost for some thing to say! She thought.

Finally, inspiration hit and she opened her mouth. "So is there anything I can help with or anything I can get started with?"

"Actually we're finally at a break between cases. So now we finally can relax for a little while. It's been a lot of fun, lately. Between my brother in the French ministry and our ministry working together, we were finally able to catch a dangerous werewolf!" Liz says as she pulls her chair over to Rowan's desk and sits down.

"Which is what Teal and I were kind of discussing. We've been trying to classify werewolves, into different classifications now. We've always classified them all the same way, but they're not all the same."

"For instance, if you remember hearing about Remus Lupin back when Harry Potter was at Hogwarts. He was able to easily join the rest of the population. Where this Hermann Kern has been very dangerous especially around children."

"So as I said we are trying to determine different classifications for all werewolves, like as in dangerous, nondangerous and those that are on the wolfsbane potion, and those who are not. Not only that but..."

Liz stops suddenly as an important looking owl, flies in through the door, and lands on her shoulder holding out its leg.

"Oh my! Well what are you hear for," she asks the owl as she takes off the note from its leg. "Hmm the only other person I knew that sent owls was Joe..."

Opening the note she starts reading and jumps to her feet:

Teal smiled as the guy confirmed that he was indeed Mr. Carracio, and he reached out and firmly shook the mans hand. "Exellent." he said with a nod, "and I'm Teal Andrus." he said in introduction, "Pleasure to meet you."

Once Drago caught on to Teal's tiredness, Teal gave the man a weak smile. "It's been more of a long month." he said with a laugh. "Sorry to say that you are coming in at a rough time. The next two weeks it looks like we are all going to have to be working around the clock in order to be ready for that convention." He said, stressing his frustration on the last word. Who knows, maybe Drago was the type that thrived in hard work. Teal was too, but not for two months straight.

Teal sneaked a glance behind him and spotted Allison sitting at her desk. He grabbed a quick sip from his coffee mug and called her over, "Hey Allison could you join us over here for a moment? I'd like you to meet one of your new co-workers." he said, as he turned back to Drago giving him a comforting smile.

Allison blinked as she heard her name, looking back over towards the two men. “Uh sure.” She stood; habitually dropping the papers she was writing on onto the page and closing the heavy book in front of her. Leaving the chair where it was she headed over to Teal and the unfamiliar man. “Allison Boggs, nice to meet you Mister…?” She trailed off, extending a hand.

Sure the slightly dark look that seemed to be attracted to her was still there, Allison tried to make her voice as cheerful as possible. She had figured out a long time ago that being perpetually pale with dark colored eyes, but still slightly eccentric gave off a weird aura, but yet, outwardly, it wasn’t even as if she registered the conflicting personalities. At least today her black hair was tied back, not making her look like so much of a ghost as usual.

"Congradulations! Wow thats great." Rowan smiled.

Wow. So where does that put me? she thought. Rowan thought about what she could do. With Star on extended leave and now Liz leaving, she was on her own. Rowan groaned inwardly. Gathering her scattered wits, she smiled at Ms. Merelda and decided to wait and see what happens. Sometimes going with the flow was the easiest choice.

Seeing Rowan reading the note with her, Liz smiles and replies "Wow, I never expected this! It'll be different that's for sure!"

Heading toward her desk, Liz starts packing up her boxes. Remembering how Star really loved her Quill stand, Liz picks it up and places it on Star's desk. After leaving a note...
...with it, she heads back to her desk.

Talking to Rowan, "I'll make sure to come back and see how things are going here! I spent 2 years here, and enjoyed what I did. I'm sure going to miss this place!"

Rowan smiled. The woman was obviously very happy about her new job.

"Don't worry too much about visiting. I'm a quick learner and catch on quick. Speaking of which..." Rowan trailed off. She placed her bag on her desk and opened it up. The bag was a tan hand bag that her Aunt had given her for Christmas last year. I wasn't very big on the outside, but thanks to the charm that Aunt Cassie had placed on it, it had several commpartments that could carry the entire contents of a house if necessary. For now, Rowan was using it to carry her work essentials. She began digging, placing a few pictures and things around her desk and finally found what she was looking for. Having found her stationary she decided to finish her decorating later.

Picking up her quill and a piece of parchment, she began to write a small note. After finishing she laughed a little to herself when she realized Liz was still in the room. "Sorry. When I get something in my head, I tune everything else out till it's done. Tenacity at it's best. I'll be right back in just gonna go put this on Mr. Andrus's desk."

Turning, she swiftly walked to his office.

When she returned she decided to finish her decorating. She picked up her handbag and began digging. Out came a calender, a small filing cabinet, and other office essentials. She finished off the final decorations and sigh with satisfaction at the end result. It looked much like her desk at home, only more professional and with less clutter. Just then a large midnight black owl with large green eyes came soaring in and landed lightly on the desk.

"Apollo! Hey boy! Whatcha got there?" Rowan patted her pet owl with affection and Apollo gently nipped her fingers. She took the small envelope from his leg and set him on a small perch. Rowan turned the letter over and broke the seal. The envelope turned a vivid geen color and exploded in a shower of fire work and cheers! A snitch appeared out of thin air and began to soar around her head. Rowan burst out laughing when she saw that the fire works had spelled out a note: "CONGRADULATIONS ON YOUR NEW JOB! GOOD LUCK!"

Giggling Rowan beamed with glee and began to play with the small snitch.

He nodded understandingly to Teal. Thankfully, compared to what he was just through, this should be easy. "If there's anything you need me to do, just let me know."

He turned to his co-worker that looked as though he could be suffering the same ailment as himself. Interesting. He began to shake her hand, though a small whisper in the back of his mind told him otherwise. Instead, as he took her hand, he turned it and kissed the back of her knuckles politely. "Drago Carracio, Herbology professor at Hogwarts and recent transfer to this unit. A pleasure to meet you." His gaze was sharp as he looked into her eyes, as though considering her carefully, before he pulled away and let go of her hand as though it were nothing.

Allison blinked, a little surprised, but managed to avoid looking to flustered. That was certainly not what she had expected. So much for chivalry being dead, she thought to herself, allowing a light smirk. “Plants huh? Not really my thing, but I did all right.” She looked back to Teal, her smirk disappearing. “So, what exactly are you having us do here? I’m afraid I missed the memo.” Her hands slipped into her pockets and she looked curious. As always, her voice was pretty quiet but yet slightly bright and quirky.