Oh,itseemed he right peaved one ofus co-workers, wonderful, he turned to the person addressing him and responded, "There is no need to lock the door, just to close it cause none of the creatures in free reign can open it. The door locks from the outside, not the inside, just in case something happens where one of us looses our wand or forgets to take it in with us. No one wants anyone to end up stuck in a room like that while handling dangerous creature for whatever reason, I hope that clarifies things a bit for you.", Jack responded trying not to sound too belittling.

Oh dear....:P
 

It was interesting Clarissa couldn't help but muse to herself how Erica's leaving the door to holding rooms open could cause so much commotion amongst the employees. Maybe their head should do that more often. The blond woman whom Clarissa vivdly remembered was called Aila and Jack got into a bit of a tiff. Jack wasn't exactly being nice as he explained the routine for the creatures holding room in an almost belittling tone. Sensing the tension and possible quarrel hanging in the air Clarissa got up from her seat and closed the door to the holding room saying to the room at large in a neutral tone "There, now i've closed it! Can we reamin civil amongst ourselves Aila and Jack? We all have work to do let's get on with it."

Clarissa oblvious to the fact that the door to the creature holding room hadn't closed itself fully since a creature of unknown description had sent out and tentacle to stop it.

Ren'Ai mentally shook her head and smiled attentively at Miss Radley. "You. Are. An. Idiot, Ren'Ai. Sakura. Kirai. her "inner" screamed mentally. "I understand. Thank you" she said, and muttered "Arigato" in her mind. She couldn't just forget her first language, now could she? Exactly. She smiled a bit wider at the playful wink Miss Radley gave her.

Ren nodded. She did have a few papers from the Japanese government she had to deal with. But she could fill that out later, alone. "Yes, Arigato--I mean, thank you, Miss Radley" she said, nervously chuckling. "What did I just say? You're an idiot, Ren! Pull. Yourself. Together!" Her "inner" shouted at her in her head.

Like she would listen to her true self. Psssh.

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Ren watched from the corner of her eye as a green lizard-type thing ran out. She shifted her feet a little, glancing back at the floor. O dear. Great, now she sounded like Callum. Or Justin. Or both.

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Her temper was dangerously high as she listened to Jack. She said in a calm but firm voice. "I'd consider it a big deal. What if, now maybe I'm being paranoid, but didn't we recently get a pay rise? I don't feel like that getting lower once again because some magical creatures escaped." She dug her nails into the palms of her hands.

The Alia was telling him off...kinda. She sent an apprietive flash of a smile at her. As they bickered she stood a little off, listening intentively as she twirled her small braid around her forefinger. Then Clarissa had decided to put an end to it. The door was closed. That was a good thing right? What if Ms. Radley had left it open on purpose. She relaxed her fists and sighed as she stared at the the moon shaped bright red marks on her skin.

With a small glare at Jack, she walked back to her cubicle and sat down, taking a deep breath. Lucy's temper had been boiling. If Alia hadn't interupted that couldn't have ended well. She'd have to learn to control that as well as magical creatures...hehe. She opened her cabinet and ran her fingers through files and pulled out her case. Someone had tipped her off that some jerk was trying to import a chimera. A CHIMERA! She ran her long, delicate fingers through her dark hair as she re-read the letter. "...Would've been helpful to say where he's meeting the guy sellin' em..." she mumbled as she began to write back to him.

Erik smiled and bowed graciously. "Of course, Miss Radley. Thank you." He raised his head up again and watched his boss leave the room to another one. Erica didn't close the door and he wondered why. He knew it was the holding room, where creatures were kept... Surely, she knew what she was thinking, entering alone and leaving the door ajar... right? After all, she was the Head of their department.

After a while of going about his work, Erik stood up from his desk and checked the other people. Clarrisa, Jack and some others were speaking in constrained voices. What was happening, he did not know. But clearly one of them tried to close the door where their Head just entered because of the thud he heard from his place.

But... there was something else there. A plastic sort of thing keeping the door from closing fully. Erik squinted and slowly walked to the door. It was as if the object was growing in size, pushing the door ever so slowly. How can a piece of plastic grow and have a mind of its own? It couldn't be enchanted-

"Petrificus Totalus!" he said in a firm voice with his wand pointed at the object as he split-secondly realized that it was a tentacle of a creature. Must have escaped from its confinement or something. Hm.. he better check the whole holding room first, even if it wasn't really his job.. as Dragon Research Head Officer. But it would mean the safety of the whole Wizarding world.

Ren tucked a strand of dark hair behind her ear and thought hard. "Well, we could get stautes of different magical animals. My twelve-year-old godsister makes them in her free time" Ren dug in her bag and pulled out a palm-sized figurine of a wolf running. She offered it to Miss Radley. "I could ask her to make some larger ones" she said.

Erica nodded and smiled. See. Her Employees could come up with some FANTASTIC ideas compared to the infestations that were going on next door. A full forest as a Department, she didn't think so. There was no way she was allowing the place to be covered completely in vines and block out the very little natural sunlight that they had.

The Head stepped forward to look at the intricate detail of the wolf, glancing momentarily over at one of her employees and then back at the figurine. "I think that would be a lovely idea, however the smaller the better I think" she stated.

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She then turned to everyone to talk. "I heard an idea next door, about a windchime, perhaps we could decide on a few creatures that could be mounted on top of these, more friendly ones maybe, something quite welcoming. But we might want to add a little excitement as well. Outline the dangers that we in this Department face" she paced back and forth once, allowing herself to be seen by everyone, despite her very small size. "We want to let everyone know how important and how skilled everyone is here but we also want to make it a lot better environment to be working within. Make you all feel comfortable and certainly improve the hard work you have all put in for me" she leant back onto the desk once again. "So has anyone else got any ideas? Elaborate on the ones already said?" she asked, scanning her eyes over her employees.

"What about painting on the wall all the different types of magical creatures" Katalin said as she put hand up.

Ren smiled and nodded, setting the wolf beside the picture of her godsister. "Next time I see her, I'll ask. She'll be quite glad to help" Ren said.

Ren tapped her desk lightly in thought. There were many ideas running through her mind. Then it hit her. "A small fishtank-slash-aquarium, and put safe, small marine creatures in it? she offered, hoping that wasn't too much to ask for.

Ren sighed and turned to Katalin. "But if we painted it directly on the wall, a lot of furniture would have to be moved and it would take forever and a day. It would also distract us from the work we're supposed to do" she countered.

Katalin smiled when someone agreed with her and was defending her, she waited for Mrs Radley reply.

Moving to another day...

Clarissa strolled into the cubicle area, dripping of rain water. Outside the rain had been dropping heavily ever since she had dropped Rebecca off at pre-school. Hanging up her rain coat on a pin in her little cubicle Clarissa bound her big furry red hair back with the use of a hair pin. The waiting memos in her inbox tray looked to be implying a long day's work. *Sigh* It would have to wait till later though since she needed to fix the paperwork for her latest case. Why did people think that breeding fire crabs and crossing them with another creature was okay? Just moving all the fire crabs to a better home was going to take the better part of her next day. Sitting down in her chair Clarissa took a report parchment and started working humming on a quiet tune as she got writing.

Clarissa looked up slightly bewildered as Erica entered and started apologizing for a meeting that had taken longer than expected. What meeting? Shrugging she pushed back hair red curly hair and finished her last notes. Standing up Clarissa walked over to hear what Erica more had to say. New employees, fresh people. "New employees sounds good. Any estimate of how many we will get?" she asked her dept head. The creatures department could definitley use a whole batch of employees but unfortunatley there were a lot more departments who felt the same.

Plant a TREE??

Clarissa made big eyes and blurted out "What kind of tree and why a tree of all things?" It sounded like something which would have been an idea that emanated from their level partners in environment.

They needed to come up with ideas to make the air less stuffy...Hm "Maybe we could invent a machine run by magic of course that filters and changes the air in each work space and corridor..But i don't know how such a machince would look... Or maybe we could find a creature, harmless of course that helps to freshen the stuffy air."

Katalin was sitting at her desk, she had just come back from maternity leave. She was missing her little boy but she had a new picture of her family on her desk.

"I don't mind researching creatures that likes dark places" Katalin told her boss, she wanted to make up for her maternity leave.

"Brilliant" she smiled and nodded. "Thank you for offering" Well that was that looked into.

"I LIKE That idea" Erica smiled genuinely, contemplating it. "I shall ask our fellows next door for an oak and pass this idea on at our next meeting. It will definitely make our department tree original and interesting compared with our other departments" she jotted it on the parchment then moved on.

"Okay. I think your position will be beneficial when looking into this petting zoo. I'd like you to question the owner on where they got their animals from. Try to put it into conversation innocently, don't show them who you really are. We want to catch them off guard. Once you have discovered something, or noticed anything shifty please report it to us. I may be able to get MLE on our side" she stated shiftily.

Ah James. Nice of you to speak up for once.

"Thank you for offering" she smiled, jotting his name on the parchment too. "Once we have established for certain if this person is doing things illegally, I would like you to go in and enquire about their licenses. It's up to you if you put it casually into conversation or demand to see them. But without licenses for certain creatures, this person is looking into big fines or maybe even criminal punishment" Oh Erica loved getting justice.

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"Anyone else interested?" she asked glancing at everyone else. There were lots of things that needed to be checked. Questions to be asked. She needed a whole team that were dedicated for this. Plus it meant being PAID to go to a carnival. It was FUN! But strictly business for the Blonde anyway.

Um, yeah, going to a carnival sure beat sitting in a cubicle, in her books. Though to be fair, it was about on-par with doing creature examinations. Either way, Morrigan scooted over to where her department head was offering a field trip to fun and wave-wiggled her fingers, "I am, for sure. What can I do to help?"

A carnival, hmm? Aila had always loved going to those with her family when she was little; they were always a load of fun. She'd have to take Fae to this one some time during the summer...when she wasn't there for work, of course.

"I am," she said, standing. Merlin, she didn't like sitting down for too long. It always made her feel so stiff. "What do you need me to do?"