 Herbology HW #1 curly haired prefect - "sometimes I get angry!" - 30/90 - *chicken emoji* - probably @ Disney - I speak dog
As far as Caleb was concerned, mandrakes were just the WORST. Plants in general were super boring, but add the hormonal teenage nonsense on top of that and it was just...blegh. NO. If anything, it just made him NOT want to have any kids ever. If mandrakes were this bad, how would REAL CHILDREN be? He didn't even want to think about it!
The current problem he was facing with his mandrake, whom he had lovingly named Sophie, was acne. Yup. Lots of acne. And it was not happy about it. It cried and scratched at it's face trying to get rid of the acne all day and it was awful. So he was going to bring some acne cream with him today. Hopefully that would take care of it.
Preparing himself by putting on his earmuffs nice and snug and pulling his dragonhide gloves over his hands, he pulled the cream out of his bag and approached Sophie, who immediately started crying upon seeing him. "Good to see you too," he grumbled before popping open the cap of the cream, taking it and putting a dollop on his finger, and reaching forward to try and apply it to the mandrake's face.
First, it thought it was getting food and tried to bite his finger. "No! Bad Sophie, this is for your FACE, not food," he told him. Silly plant. He ended up having to take the plant in his hand and holding the head still so he could put it on. The mandrake cried a bit but seemed to know this was going to help with the current breakout on it's face and stopped after a few moments. FINALLY. Ungrateful thing.
Then, he gave the mandrake some fresh fertilizer, which would hopefully help Sophie grow big and strong and get past this teenage phase it seemed to be stuck in. Then, he watered the plant, to once again help with the growth. "Aguamenti," he said softly as the water started to sprinkle over the plant. Sophie didn't seem to like that and sniffled a bit, but really, did Sophie like ANYTHING?
Thankfully, the crying seemed to have worn the plant out and it decided it was time for a nap. As it snoozed, Caleb took out his journal and quickly made an entry about his visit today. He was almost done with this project - and hopefully with mandrakes FOREVER.
__________________ I'm still standin'________________________________________ better than I ever did
Lookin' like a true survivor_________________________________feelin' like a little kid |