So. SO. What Toby was gathering from that answer was that if one were to BORROW A TINY BABY DRAGON... it wouldn't just randomly get bigger when it was sleeping under one's bed, right? That was definitely how it sounded to him. Or... his friend. Yes. That friend he was totally asking on behalf of.

In any case, there were now other matters to attend to. When the professor called him over, Toby got right up and did so, his dragon back on his shoulder again where it appeared quite happy to stay. He held out his hand when it became obvious that that was what Thompson wanted to see him about, tried to stand as still as he could and said, "It's okay. It doesn't hurt or nothing." Which was a lie, but it only hurt because of the fire now, and that part had been his own fault. At the instruction to see him after class, Toby nodded. "Alrighty." It was much different from when Airey had asked him to do the same, because THAT time there had been yelling and pointing and the astronomer had gone a scary shade of red. This time Toby was pretty sure he wasn't in any trouble, AND he was all kinds of distracted by Sparky, so there was none of that emotional turmoil. NICE.

And back Toby went to his place, sitting down and listening to the instructions for the main activity while Sparky rooted around in his hair. Hey, COOL. Fire spells! Toby could totally DO those, he was a pro at them kinda sorta.

FIRST, though, Sparky had to get up in the air. Toby held out his hands again for him to step out onto, all the better to start the activity. The charm or the non-magic way? Usually Toby went with the non-magic way, but it looking like the wing-stroking method sort of riled the dragons up a little and made them fly that way. But... Toby always liked to work with animals without that Animalis Fidelis charm if he could help it, soooooo... non-magic method it was.

"Time to fly, Sparky!" he said to his little dragon friend, rubbing his neck one last time to see him spit flames - it was cool, okay? - before moving his hand to the creatures wings.

It occurred to Toby, as he ran his fingers over the inner linings of Sparky's wings which caused the dragon to automatically huff and spread them out, that this was like tickling them. In which case, no wonder they wanted to fly away when it happened. "C'mon boy, you need to-" At that moment, Sparky's head turned towards him, and Toby immediately stopped and held out his hand. The tiny dragon took flight. Rahhhhh. RAHHHHHHH.

EXCITING.