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SlytherinSistah Loads without dung?! Like what? Eat a big lunch and return within a timely manner? Best to clarify before any rash decisions were made.
"Like what do they eat, then?" He began closing the gap between he and the boy. The bottles of live bugs and worms rattling in his bag as he drew nearer and he darting between the wiggenbush and Tobias.
Tobias heard a very faint rattling coming from the boy, but though absolutely nothing of it. He was too busy thinking of a way to explain something to the boy who seemed rather put out at the prospect of not being able to work with dragon poo.
"Well," he said, getting up from the floor so he stood at his full height of 4'6" and tilting his head at the other boy with a smile.
"Plants in the wild aren't always fertilised. It just sort of... boosts them I guess. A lot of plants just live on being watered and getting sunlight and getting nutrients that are already in the soil."
Which meeeeeeeant... uh... well, he didn't know.
"You can help me if you like! Even just like... showing them love and care is a KIND of food."
To prove this, Tobias turned ever so slightly back to the Wiggenbush and used his fingertips to stroke a few of the leaves.
"See? Or you can read to them or talk to them or trim them, or even just help clean up the greenhouse! It's all super fun, 'cause it's all being helpful."
See?
SEEEEEEE?