 #2 -we love the spider, ok? Granddaddy Ravenclaw | | Jermione Granger
As she let Masuru walks from hand to hand, Nicky cause the little details of the creature's movement. How it was always the left front leg that moved first. Or how a soft click of Nicky's tongue against her teeth would cause the spider to stop and switch directions. Masuru was dark, mostly black, Nicky observed, and nearly the size of her entire palm.
The girl raised her to the professor, wondering if she would be permitted to keep one. She assumed that Masuru was off-limits, since it was already named and clearly belonged to someone. "You're such a beauty, aren't you," she said to the spider, passing it from hand to hand, allowing it to walk. "This all won't hurt a bit. And I bet you'll get fed once we're done." Nicky made some final visual observations, filing the details away in her mind and not bothering with parchment.
Feeling as if her observations were done, Nicky moved her hand so that Masuru rode on the back of it, and placed it on her shoulder. Slowly, the creature made it's way off of Nicky's hand and onto her upper arm, perching there and eventually growing still.
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