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"Same here!!" Lex chimed in. "I mean, I'm not usually given to violence," She averted her gaze just slightly, there was some truth to the statement but not much, "but that thing needs to go!" Ahem. Of course she was happy the Ground's Keeper saw eye to eye with her on this one. Besides...wouldn't everyone want this thing blasted beyond recognition? She knew she did and now she was sure he did too.
"You don't have to make excuses; Pepper and Millie need help, sometimes we have to be hands on!" Nod. Nod. Nod. Though she seemed to be hands on more times than not...meh.
Lex nearly squealed when she heard him say they would be going into the Forbidden Forest. She didn't though because whenever anyone saw an excited 11 year old they automatically assumed they would do something stupid and she would be crushed at having to be sent back at this point.
She'd never been in there an now she would have to legit reason and even two Professor with her!! Soooo much better than sneaking in and risking getting caught. Yup.
None of those plants sounded particularly nice but having very little knowledge on this subject she merely nodded her head in agreement to the plants he was naming. He was the Shiny Ground's Keeper; he'd know.
Then came the part she had been internally bouncing for. She turned sharply on her heel, ready to have an adventure enter the forest and rescue those poor animals. If they were lucky she'd even get the see the plant get what was coming to it.
If the situation wasn't so dire then Seb might have laughed at young Alexa trying to be all innocent like. He had heard about her antics earlier in the year and while she hasn't gotten herself into trouble since, he knew that she wasn't about to turn all goody two shoes anytime soon.
"I have to be hands on." He corrected her while giving her a look.
"Remember what I said before? No heroics." He was a staff member of the school so he needed to be responsible but Seb knew that if it did get ugly, the two girls had no intentions of running and yet he was still going to let them come.
He figured they had the right to.
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Bazinga Minerva was listening to all that was going on around her as she still kept looking around. Nervous that thing would come back she kept her guard up. Being touched by that plant was enough for her to know she didn't want touched by it again. "I would kind of like seeing it used in some potions just to know it was gone." Blushing a bit, she couldn't believe she said it out loud, but it was the truth, she wanted it as gone as it could.
When talks of where to look started Minerva snapped her head up at the forest talk, she had never been close to that forest since they weren't allowed in there. She felt her heart race a bit, but tried to look calm, she had to be brave to help, she wasn't backing out now. A thought crossed her mind though, "Mr. Gibbins... Professor.. You don't think any of the plants in any of the green houses are slipping out some how, do you?" She would think Professor Bentley would be keeping an eye on all those plants, but she was trying to think of all the places plants were around the castle and that was the only other place other then the forest she could think of.
When Gibbins said about going she looked up. "Should we take some treats or something in case we find Pepper, make it easier for her to calm down, she is probably so scared. Maybe some for Millie as well if we find her away from that plant." Yes, maybe she got away from the plant some how before it was to late, but Minerva's brain was focusing more and more and she knew enough from reading books and class to know that a plant wouldn't just take something for fun. They didn't work that way, a frown crossed her face thinking about it. It wasn't the time to feel sad, there was a job to do. Minerva tried to push it out of her mind and tightened her grip around her wand. "I'm ready.."
Seb paused for a moment when Minerva spoke. That was a valid question.
"Well...maybe...no." He said with a shake of his head.
"I don't think Professor Bentley would keep anything that dangerous in her greenhouse and well if she did then I'm sure she would have it contained properly." Right? Merlin, he hoped so.
Minerva was proving to be quite valuable. Seb was so focused on finding the plant and killing it that he wasn't thinking about what would happen if he found Pepper or Millie. Maybe he was just readying himself for the inevitable.
"Yeah good idea. You can summon the treats from my hut." She did know how to do that, right?
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Destiny That was.. actually a lot to take in, and Vanora couldn't help but stare, wide eyed at Minerva.
Had she told anyone about her time in the hot spring? Of course, she could understand completely if the girl didn't, because truthfully, if something terrible hadn't happened to her creatures, she would have had a very, VERY hard time believing that story. Even if they were in Hogwarts. The place where an animal eating plant could be considered normal. But, the last thing she wanted to think about was any animal or creature being eaten, by a plant no less, and when they topic of her jobberknoll came up, her features softened and she smiled sadly. "I don't know, really. The jobberknoll were all left behind." As in, she had seen them. All laying on the barn floor. Dead. Unlike Sebastian's animals.
At least the groundskeeper seemed to be thinking along the same lines as she was, and the two girls looked more than willing to head into the forest to help.
Vanora pulled out her wand, tip already lit to let everyone know she was also ready. "Plants really aren't my thing." Unless her thing was grass, and the only reason she knew anything about that was because most of the animals she looked after ate it. "We should have pitchforks."
Not treats.
"They used to be my thing." Seb said, lighting up the end of his wand also.
"A long time ago." But he had never worked with anything like this and to be honest he didn't even know what kind of plant it was and how to get rid of it.
He did let out a small chuckle though. Vanora had quite the sense of humour.
"I was thinking more along the lines of flaming torches." The smile on his faded though, the moment they stepped to the edge of the forest and he gave his fellow colleague a sideways glance.
"Should we split up?"