Dia carefully walked up to the gates, muttered the password, and entered. Passing by quite a few students, she went a bit deeper into the path and took a sharp right turn. There was the barn--the place she had memorized the path of last term. Slowly opening it ad stepping inside, she smiled as the slightly nightmare-ish looking, winged horses raised their heads to see who the newcomer was. Dia slowly made her way over to a large, powerful looking thestral and began feeding small scraps of raw meat to him. They really were amazing and beautiful creatures...what ever anyone else thought.