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Clearing his throat, William continued on with the lesson. "Let's go back to the topic of Merpeople, briefly. What do you all know about them? What are their physical and behavioral characteristics? What about their society structure, and their weapons of choice?"
He eyed Dash for a moment. "I'm sure you all already know about the controversy surrounding Merpeoples' chosen classification as beasts instead of beings, yes?" If not, perhaps Dash would like to add on to that?
...
Why did this man seem so overly-enthusiastic about creatures? Yeah, sure...he was a Care of Magical Creatures professor, but
really? He looked on the verge of bouncing up and down out of pure happiness. It was sort of nauseating to see such a Puffer of a display right there in front of the classroom.
Sierra thought about this all throughout the man's responses. Then the subject was back on merpeople all too soon. Her hand rose into the air.
"You know, all the books suggest one thing as their weapon of choice, but I'd like to suggest something else--their appearance." Yes, their appearance was a
weapon.
"Have you ever seen one of those things up close?! Well, I haven't, but I've seen pictures." Those things were UGGGGGLY. U-G-L-Y.
She paused and looked around. They didn't have a group of merpeople joining them anytime soon, as they had the Giant Squid, hmm? She'd hate to offend an entire society of them. She shrugged.
"Just sayin'." She shrugged again.
"Or...lobalugs, too..."