Kurumi was SO excited for this assignment. Sure, others would probably be glaring at her most likely Ravenclaw girls as was the trend since she had sort of suggested the idea of fire crab babysitting to Professor Newlin...but COME ON! They got to care for a creature and have as much hands on time as they wanted! HOW AWESOME WAS THAT?

It was almost as awesome as having your own dragon to take care of. Almost. Actually, who was Kurumi kidding? Nothing could compare to having your own dragon to care for.

Entering the stone building, Kurumi was quite literally awestruck at the setup and for a moment forgot that it was the middle of winter outside. Blinking away her surprise as best she could for a moment, Kurumi ventured inside until she reached the cages and then promptly scanned them for the ruby crested one she had worked with during the lesson. Covered in rubies and with one that sort of looked like a star.

Wandering a bit more, her eyes widened when she finally spotted the fire crab and she clapped her hands together. "There you are," she chirped as she opened the cage and coaxed the creature out. "How is that crack doing?" Craddeling the creature as it waddled out of the cage, Kurumi immediately turned her attention to its tail when she realized something...she sort of needed to compare this one's tail to another one to be sure of its gender. After all, length and width were sort of subjective at the moment...

Sitting down on the ground and letting her fire crab rest in her lap, Kurumi pulled out her textbook and flipped through the pages until she got to the fire crab section and looked at the chart for comparing genders. "Hmmm...three finger widths most likely means a boy..." Attention back on her fire crab, Kurumi turned the creature around and patted the top of its head with one hand while she measured its tail width with her fingers. "Three...I guess that means you are a boy!"