Excited about the opportunity to get to care for and work with a baby magical creature, Anna happily entered the new Magical Creatures Nursery. She'd been assigned to work with a Phoenix, which she'd named Blaze, and to say that she was "delighted" would definitely be an understatement. To begin with, Anna absolutely adored cuddly magical creatures, but she'd never really had the opportunity to be around them too often. You'd think with her being a pureblood witch she'd have had many encounters with magical creatures. That wasn't the case, though. Outside of owning Charlotte, her snowy white owl, and Piccadilly, her new baby crup, Anna hadn't really had too many magical creature encounters.

Today, all of that would change. She'd been excited about meeting Blaze ever since Professor Morgan had told the class of their assignment. She imagined that she and Blaze would soon become the best of friends, and she hoped that Professor Morgan might consider letting her have Blaze when she graduated from Hogwarts. The Magical Creatures Nursery was certainly a busy place. Students from all years and houses were packed inside, each caring for their own little creature. Anna smiled at a few she knew then continued on throughout the nursery, constantly on the lookout for Blaze. It didn't take her long to locate the beautiful bird.

Blaze was inside a cage, looking as if he desperately needed to get out and about and spread those gorgeous wings of his. Anna hesitated briefly, debating on whether or not she should just open up the cage and set Blaze free, or take a few moments to introduce herself and make sure Blaze knew she meant no harm. Deciding to go with Plan B, Anna knelt down beside the cage and slowly held her right hand out towards Blaze. "Erm, hiii," she said, edging her hand closer and closer. "I'm Anna. Anna Greingoth. I've come to play with you...and feed you...and make sure you have the happiest life possible. I'm not sure if you know this or not, but I've named you Blaze, because of your unique ability to burst into flames and turn to a pile of ashes. I can't imagine what that's like for you, because I suppose you all look forward to it. You know, with it giving you the chance to restart your life and all."

As she spoke, Anna carefully studied Blaze's appearance. He was about the size of a swan and was covered in crimson feathers and had a long, golden tail. How odd that Anna's creature turns out to be Gryffindor-colored! She had a sinking feeling that she and Blaze would get along just fine! Anna watched the tail of the Phoenix, thinking about how pretty it was, but at the same time how hot it must be. She'd read that a Phoenix had an extremely hot tail! Anna's eyes traveled to Blaze's claws and beak, which were black in color. Anna just had to admit it---Blaze had style! Anna closed in the gap between her hand and Blaze's head of feathers. Within seconds, she was stroking his beatiful, crimson feathers. They were soft, but otherwise weren't too different from any other bird feathers. As Anna pet the beautiful bird, she spoke softly to it, assuring it over and over that she was here to befriend it and not harm it. She was pretty sure Blaze understood that, too. Meeting number one---"getting to know you"---had been a success!

Ana was passing by the nursery late for a class, but she remembered her little Padfoot and decided do a quick visit.

She ran into the nursery stopping near Padfoot's cage. And there he was.
"You grown each day!" she said.

"Look i can't be too much time here today because I'm kinda late for a class" she smiled to the kneazle.

"So... what have you doing?" she said "yeah playing i know... Look you can play with the other kneazles too!"

While Padfoot was playing like crazy with the toy that Ana brought him two visits ago she was cleaning his cage and filling with food and fresh water. "It's done Padfoot!". He started eating.

Ana caressed Padfoot "I got to go. See you tomorrow, love you!" and she left the nursery running to her class.

Thrilled about the success of her first meeting with Blaze, Anna left the Common Room and headed back down to the Magical Creatures Nursery. Yesterday, she'd accomplished her first goal---to meet Blaze and let the bird know that she only wanted friendship, and that she wouldn't harm him. Blaze had warmed up to her right away! Anna supposed a lot of that had to do with the fact that she spoke so softly to the bird and held her hand out slowly to help show that she only intended to pet the bird. This first step was important to Anna, because she felt that nothing else would truly be accomplished if Blaze either didn't like her or felt uncomfortable around her. Anna was here to nurture Blaze and to make sure she had the best life possible!

Blaze was an absolutely beautiful bird, too! Although he'd been inside a cage, Anna could still see his gorgeous, crimson feathers and his long, golden tail. Blaze was a true Gryffindor bird, and of course that made Anna happy! She had a feeling that she'd be happy with Blaze no matter what color he was, though! Anna remembered how soft those crimson feathers had been once she'd closed her hand in one them and pet Blaze for a few minutes. She'd also been careful not to touch that long, golden tail, because she knew just from reading about the birds, that there tails were extremely hot. Anna couldn't wait to see Blaze again and touch those pretty, soft feathers!

As she entered the nursery, Anna went straight for Blaze's cage. She'd found it easily the day before, so today would be a piece of cake. Anna approached the cage with a smile, and leaned down to tell Blaze hello. "Good morning, boy. I hope you're ready to get out of that cage for a while, because that's what I've come to do," she said, reaching her hand out to pet her little bird. Blaze didn't even hesitate upon seeing her hand, though. As a matter of fact, the little bird leaned its head down and met her hand halfway. Anna stroked the bird's feathers for a minute and then withdrew her hand. "Okay, time to get out of here for a while. You just come back to me now, you hear? I have some treats for you!" she said. Anna reached down and unlatched the cage, expecting Blaze to step out slowly, tell her goodbye, and then take off in flight.

It didn't quite happen that way, though. What Anna forgot is that these birds usually disappear so quickly that all that's seen is a flash of fire. As soon as the click of the latch opening was head and the cage door was open, a few sparks flickered right in front of Anna's face. Blaze was gone. Well, he wasn't truly gone. He'd taken off into the skies to spread his beautiful wings for a while. That was perfectly fine with Anna. She knew he'd been anxious to get out of that cage for quite some time. Anna sighed softly and then took a seat on the ground next to the cage. She'd have the treats and food for Blaze ready to go as soon as her bird returned.

Qaz entered the Nursery building and went straight for her baby. ‘How’s my handsome fella? Oh my goodness, you’ve gotten big. Mommy is so sorry that she hasn’t been down for a while, but she’s been sick and she didn’t want to give her cold to her baby.’ She said to the ball of fur. As she was talking, Chaos looked up at her.

Where have you been. I’ve missed the yummies. Nobody has played with me. Mommy…mommy…

Qaz opened the cage door, put her and in and began stroking him very gently. ‘You are such a big boy now. Would you like your treats first?’ She closed the cage door for a second while she got two small containers out of her bag. The first was his youghurt. She dipped a finger in the yoghurt and the reached her hand in so he could lick it off. He was bigger now, so he finished the yoghurt a lot faster. Next, she dipped into the other container and scooped out about a teaspoon of mashed banana. ‘Here you go big guy. While you eat that, I’m going to make another sketch of you.’


Qaz pulled her sketchpad and pencil from her bag and began to sketch. He was so much bigger and darker.



After she finished the sketch, she opened the cage door, put her and in picked him up. You’re heavier, too.


Easy does it….tummy is happy. You don’t want to upset it by moving me too much.


After a while, she sat down on the floor, turning her legs into a corral of sorts. Then she set Chaos down on the ground. 'Now you can stretch your legs a bit and get get your little feet on bare ground. What do you think?’ She asked, stroking his fur a bit.

Sniff…sniff. New touch. Why is my home way up there. Mommy is here. Missed mommy. Funny floor. Sniff. Sleepy.

Chaos curled up in a ball and started to sleep. Qaz stroked his fur for a while longer, then picked him up and returned him to his cage. ‘Mommy will be back soon. Promise’

Qaz collected her belongings and left….to work on homework…

With one hand, Celandine adjusted her hair ribbon as she walked through the main nursery and outside to the stables. Her other hand clutched her notebook, a quill and her wand.

Reaching the stable she went inside and giggled at the sight of Tiberius and Cassiopeia in their cramped little stall. A cramped little stall that needed some serious mucking out. She wrinkled her nose and sighed, setting her things aside and tugging her hair ribbon tight and twisting her hair into a messy bun, which she fixed still with her wand.

She opened the stall and led both abraxans out of the messy stall. Ick. Cela transfigured her shoes into rubber boots and took some gloves off the shelf, pushing them on by lacing her fingers together. She shot a look at the abraxans and wrinkled her nose again before sighing and leading them outside. She let them into the pen to run around and play while she headed back inside.

Cela used a pitchfork to sort the dirty straw into a seperate pile, leaving the clean straw behind. She took her wand out of her hair and flicked it at the pile of dirty straw, "Evanesco!"

Best thing about magic was it took much less effort to do icky jobs like this. She went to fetch some more straw and spread it around before going to the next stall and spreading some fresh straw there too.

All done, Celandine put the pitchfork away and took off her gloves before running out to the pen and stopping at the sight of the two abraxans. Flying. Not high, and not far. But flying. And she'd missed it! Cela stared for a moment before whistling at the two. She giggled as they immediately hurried over, clearly keen to be fed. Tiberius nearly knocked her over and Celandine gave him a stern look and a slap on the rump before eyeing Cassiopeia, "Don't get any ideas."

Cela took them back inside and put one in each stall, amusing herself with the way they pressed against the centre so they were still close together, "That's better isn't it? Much more space!" Celandine filled their feed buckets with their individual mash mixtures and gave Cassiopeia a snuggle before making a few notes and heading out of the stables.

No Championships for the Huffies this year...there was always the next one...BUT there was still the Consolation Game, and they had to win...perhaps, Seven may have a few tips on Quidditch.

Right, she keeps forgetting that Seven doesn't even know about Quidditch, the creature made it clear that it didn't know what it was last visit, did it? Or was it?

But Kaika managed to look happy enough to play with Seven, and since it wasn't all about games and food she decided to teach him something this time. Easy. To 'Sit', because she knew that muggles teach that to their dogs, and Seven was a crup, and looked a lot like a dog. A little one.

She frowned as she noticed the measures this time, "You didn't grow at all! I blame the rain..." Pffft, that was like blaming Emalyn for taking her bat. Nonsense.

"Today's lesson..." she started and cleared her throat, "Sit" she said, and that the introduction to a series of chats about sitting and teaching the poor crup how to sit when told to, as if she was going to take it home for the summer.

Time's up. Quidditch awaits. OWLs await. Homework awaits.

A 'Bye, Seven' was all that could be heard from the outside, before the girl exited the Nursery.

William whistled happily as he walked into the nursery, looking straight at his cage where Ziella waited patiently, as if knowing he'd be visiting. She looked happy, and clean which meant she hadn't decided to roll around in her cage like she did the last time he had been there. Walking over to the shelves, he took some food, water and some toys he thought would be interesting and smiled as he walked with purpose over to her cage. Setting the items on the ground he opened her cage and grinned. "Hey girl, how's it going?" He asked as she practically jumped into his arms, licking his face like a Muggle dog. So like a Muggle dog he thought as he pet her, roughing her fur up some and chuckling. "I take it you've had enough sleep since the last time I was here, two days ago eh? You want more excersize?" He asked once she had calmed down enough to waggle her tail enthusiastically as she looked up at him. "Aww, you're too cute!" He cooed softly, rubbing her head.

Picking up a small piece of meat he scowled at it, scrunching his nose as he held it out to her. "Hungry?" He asked, holding his hand out for her to take it. She sniffed it and nibbled at it, her tongue slopping all over his hand. "Eww!" He exclaimed, rubbing his hand on his robes once the food was gone. "Okay, you like meat I get it." he laughed, holding out an apple. "How about fruit?" He asked again, holding it out by its brown stick. She sniffled it once and whined. He frowned, before realizing he was supposed to drop it for her and did so, watching as she ate it with sloppy slurry noises. He took note, digging through his bag for his journal and writing a few things down before picking up a few pieces of lettuce and dropping them on the ground.

"Okay, so what do you want to do today? You don't need a bath, you could use some excersize so I'll take you to the place you seem to love. Hmm, what else? You remind me of a dog I once had; her name was Jessie, she was a black Labrador, a kind of Muggle dog. She used to sit on my lap during the night and fall asleep with her tongue lolling out. It was so cute." He said, then began telling her all about her as she continued eating the morsels on the ground.

He suddenly remembered something and shook his head. "I'm supposed to teach you stuff aren't I? I'm sorry, I've been so preoccupied with stuff lately I totally forgot. Well let's start with something small okay?" He said jumping up and dusting himself off. "I want you to sit on my command okay? I know, but you can do this! You're one of the smartest Crups I know, so let's get started. Sit." he said in a demanding voice, his hand lowering. Ziella looked at him weirdly for a moment before laying down, her head on her paws. He frowned. "No, not lay down, Sit!" he said, waiting for her to stand again before lowering his hand with his index finger sticking out.

She whined at his tone and sat down slowly, her blue eyes blinking up at him. He almost felt like bending down and petting her, apologizing for his voice but he knew he shouldn't. "Good girl. Let's try again. Up." he said, his hand going upwards this time, index finger pointing upwards. She watched his hand and whined again before putting her head down and standing on her four legs. He nodded, digging in his pocket for the dog treats his mother had sent him the week before. He tossed three down on the ground. "Good girl. See, every time you do it I give you treats. You like treats." he said, a smile on his face.

He kept the training up for another hour, each time she performed correctly she got three treats. Each time she didn't do as told she got nothing. It took all his power not to bend down and smother her in hugs every time she whined, but he knew he shouldn't. It gave them a false sense of gratitude and made them think that no matter what they'll do good. He looked at the sun squinting as he tried to figure the time out and sighed. It was time to study he figured, picking up his stuff and shoving it back into his bag with a smile at Ziella. "You did awesome girl, next time we'll do more okay? I have to go study now, exams are coming up you know and I need to pass my classes." even DADA he thought to himself gulping slightly as he bent down and hugged her, leading her to her cage and closing it. "I'll be back tomorrow, promise!" he said as he turned and walked out of the nursery.

On her sixth visit, Via was more eager to see Cid. She had been wandering around the library, working on some background readings about imp. She still have a lot to learn about them even though she have been spending some time with her pet imp. That still wasn't enough.

One time, as Via had remembered she had noticed Cid eating insects and she wasn't approved of it not until she learned that insects are the real food of imps and it's by far Cid's favourite. So today she brought some. And as she reached his cage,she slowly opened her bag to get a small bottle. It contained some insects Via had caught at the pathways when she wandered down there. "Hello,little imp," Via greeted as she saw him rattling the bars of the cgae with his slaptisck. "I've got food for you." She then laid the opened bottle inside the cage and watched Cid pick them one by one inside.

She moved back towards her bag and searched for her magical creatures notebook. Searching for a blank page, she noticed she was almost halfway. SHe started to write down the date and time and her new observations about Cid. Glancing back and forth at him, Cid was almost done with his food and he was trying to grab for the last one inside the bottle. As soon as Cid was finished,Via stood up and grabbed the empty bottle before Cid could get his hands on it and throw it unto the floor.

"You're pretty hungry,I see," Via noticed. She documented that Cid had ate all the food she had given him and that he wanted more."Haha," Via laughed. "I'll give you again when i come back. That's enough," she stated as she patted the Imp's head.

Cid gently poked her hand with his slapstick and Via was a little bit hurt, "Okay...sorry for laughing," she said. The imp wasn't as wild as usual imps for she was used with her. After cleaning Cid and his cage,Via started to pack her things. Including the bottle. Cid watched the bottle until he could no longer see it as if there's still an insect left inside it. Via chuckled a little, "Now, you can't poke me." She bid goodbye to him and left a drawing inside the cage. She was working on something but she wasn't going to show it to Cid now.

Chris Potter walked into the magical Creatures Nursery to visit his kneazle, Owen. As he opened the door he saw Via and he gave her a quick greeting and looked at her creature with a smile, then hurried ove rto the pen that Owen was in. He leaned over the little wall of the pen and picked up the little gray and black spotted cat-like kneazle and gave him a hug. "Hey Owen did you miss me? Sorry its been a while I have been loaded down with Homework and classes." He then climbed into the pen and sat down on the ground with Owen and started to pet him. After a while chris got a bowl of food for him and layed it down on the ground were Owen started to eat. Chris smiled as he watched his kneazle eating the food with the sun shining through the window onto his soft fur. After owen had finished eating he crawled into Chris' lap and layed his head down sleepily. Chris petted his head until Owen fell asleep. Chris quietly without moving too much reached into his school bag a grabbed out his History of Magic book and began to read his chapter that was assigned to him for homewrk. Might as well get it done here so Owen can sleep, he thought. So he read with the sound of Owen's soft purs.

Mariska came into the Magical Creatures nursery, more excited to see little fuzzy Pandora than she had expected. She found her little Kneazle kitten playing with a few of the others, but when Mari was close enough, Pandora immediately sought her out. The little feline padded up to her, rubbing her tiny face against Mari's legs. " Good girl," she said, reaching down and letting her bat her paws at her hand for a bit before she fed her a little bit of special kitten treats, watching with amusement as the little fuzzball sniffed them before taking a good amount of time to decide she wanted to actually eat them. Even then, she did it with an air of careful consideration. " You know, I wouldn't mind having a pet if it were you, my little Pandora." She said, smiling as the cat went for her favorite pastime which was attacking and wrestling with a bit of yarn Mari had procured for her.

Maddox walked into the nursery, a bit glum, but still happy to Serefina. She was as beautiful as ever. He placed his bag and cloak next to the door, and walked quickly to her cage. He opened it, and waited for the beautiful, full grown phoenix to fly out and perch on his shoulder. Once she was there he smiled and said, "Afternoon, my love. Hungry?" He smiled as she coo'ed, and walked over to the feed.

Serefina had been full grown for a while now, but everytime he got to see her, he noticed something different about her that was even more glorius then the last time he saw her. For instance, her tail was so long and beautiful now, he was almost scared to touch it because it looked so breakable. Even though he knew that phoenix tails were so strong that they could lift amazing amounts of weight, and not get tired.

Despite his distraction by her tail, he sat in their normal spot, and grabbed a handful of feed (as she floated down to perch on his knee), giving her one leaf at a time, until she decided she was full. "I wonder if Professor Morgan would let me buy you. I dont think I will be able to part with you." He smiled, and at the nudging of her warm beak, he began rubbing the beautiful glowing scarlett feathers on her neck.

It had been an hour or so, before he noticed what time it was. He sighed and said, "It is time to go again. I will see you in a couple of days my love." He placed his hand out so she would clamp on withher talons. Once she did so he stood up and walked over to her cage, placing her inside. She hopped off his hand and coo'ed a sad melancholy song. He frowned and waved good by as he grab his bag and cloak, and walked out the door.

Mari hadn't been able to come by to the Nursery in a week or so now and the moment she set her things down just outside of nursery, she noticed that the Kneazle's weren't in their little group. She looked around curiously and then felt a familiar little sensation moving against her leg. She looked down and was surprised to see a less fuzzy Pandora. " Sneaky girl." She said, moving to pick her up. She had lost some of her uncoordinated footing and seemed less stubby, something that amazed Mari. It had only been about three weeks, but she was already looking more like a cat now and not a kitten.

She picked her up and held her carefully, smiling as Pandora settled in her arms, still a little clumsily though. " You're getting so pretty," She said, petting her soft white and gray fur, eliciting a happy purr from the cat. She then let her go, watching as she chased after random floaty bits of dust or anything else that moved. Mari found a loose feather, from what sort of bird she wasn't sure, but she charmed it to float around, entertaining Pandora while she jotted down her observations for that visit. Soon though she scooped her cat up again and even gave her a little nose rub, even though Pandora was still going after that pesky feather. However, she did acknowledge Mari with a little meow before she bounded into the safety of the Nursery again. Mari laughed as the cat went after some other Kneazle and she left, wondering how much bigger Pandora would be next time.

Maddox was in a hurry, but today was the only day he had some free time. He dropped his bag on the floor and walked quickly to Serefina's cage, opening it as fast as he could. He had about thirty minutes to hang with her before he had to get back to the common room and get his homework done. It was piling up quickly now that term was coming close to an end, and he was a seventh year.


He smiled as she flapped her majestic wings and landed on his shoulder. "I dont have much time today my love, but I can feed you and play for a moment or two." He walked over to the feed, and sat down. She fluttered down to perch on his knee as he grabbed a hand full of leaves. He started feeding them to her one by one until she decided she had had enough.


He started his daily rub down, and with in a couple seconds, (though really it was more like 15 minutes), it was time for him to go. He sighed and said, "Time to go my love. Next time i come will be longer I promise." He smiled and gently placed her into the cage before running out the door with his things.

Lucy walked into the nursery shocked she had never been here before. She looked around and spotted Professor Morgan. She walked up to her. "Good evening Professor. Is there any way I could help out around here?" She asks ready to help out in anyway possible.

Abby walks into the Magical Creature Nursery and over to Marmalade's stall. Marmalade ignors her. Abby opens the stall door and walks in. "I'm sorry. I know I haven't been here in a while, but I've been really busy with homework and studying for OWLS. They started the first of the week. I brought you a treat." Abby pulls two carrots from behind her back. "I'm afraid you're going to have to eat them in the other stall. I really need to muck your's out. The addition of Single Malt Whiskey to your diet has really increased your output." Abby walks Marmalade over to the other stall and mucks hers out. When she finished, Abby places some fresh hay in the stall, fills Marmalade's water dish, and fixes her food. She then brings Marmalade back. Marmalade flaps her wings as she walks back into her stall hitting Abby in the face. "My your wings have sure grown. It won't be long before you'll be flying. I promise the next time I come. We'll go for a long walk. You can exercise those wings." Abby gets a brush out of the tack room and give Marmalade a good brushing. She then puts her blanket on. "I added some more Single Malt Whiskey to your barley. You really seem to like it." Abby pulls a piece of sugar out of her pocket. She places it under Marmalade's mouth. Marmalade eats it up. "I love you. I promise I'll see you tomorrow." Abby closes the stall door, and walks back to th castle.

Via returned after a few days to visit her baby imp for the seventh time. She brought along with her the usual things she used to bring for her past visits and she brought new bottle of insects for Cid. Although she had been at Hogsmeade and got some sweets for herself and for Cid. She made her way towards Cid's cage and the imp caught a glimpse of her, he began rattling the bars of his cage using his slapstick. Via laughed as he looked at him and his cage. It's clean except for pieces of paper which seemed like they were brutally torn. He must have played with the drawing i left, Via thought. The drawing she left was Cid, something she had done to pass the time as she watched him eat.

She knew she should stop laughing for the imp would poke her again, "Good day little pal," she greeted the imp as she approached him with a smile. She opened her cage and let him out. "What have you done with the drawing i left?" Via asked him and the little imp was shrugging simultaneously. He is actually answering Via's question and he's acting as if he was innocent. She carried the imp and felt Cid was heavy now. She smiled at Cid, "I'll have to clean your place first before i give you some treats," she stated and she picked the pieces of papers inside. She returned Cid inside. Cid was tugging her hair as always. And to make him stop doing it she gave him the food she brought. "Here's the treat i'm talking about," she said as she laid the bottle inside. She move back a little to document some new observations for the baby imp. Was Cid still a baby? she thought to herself and chuckled. Watching her baby imp, she felt a little bit sad, term will soon be over. Shutting her mind off that,she went to wipe Cid after eating the last bit of the insect and gave her the chocolate frog she had in her pocket.

Soon it's time again for her to leave and she shut his cage. She said goodbye to him and left the imp again rattling the bars of his cage.

Hours after the game Ana walked into the nursery feeling great. She made her way to the cage.

She reached the cage but Padfoot was not there. Thinking that he was playing with the other creatures she called him "Padfoot!... Padfoot!" but no noise or any sign of him. Ana started looking under any table , inside every cage but no sign of Padfoot. She started to get nervous.

"Padfoot! Padfoot! Padfooooot!" nothing. She ran from one corner to the other of the nursey...
She could feel the tears forcing her eyes to get out. She focus on trying not to panic, but it was getting harder each second.

And then a sound...

A meow..

Following the source of the sound she got to the window and there he was with his toy and another kneazle playing.
Ana ran outside and picked him calling the other kneazle too so his owner won't get a heart attack like she almost had.

The three arrived and Ana put Padfoot near his cage. "Do NOT do this to me again. Do you want to kill me or what?!" Ana "fall" to the nearest chair, trying to calm down her heart and legs and hands and knees, everything that was beating fast and shacking like crazy.

About 15 min later she was better. "I love you, you know" Padfoot lay down with her belly in the air like asking to play and Ana join. "Yes you're lovely you are" Both play for a couple of hours.

"Do you know who won the game today? Hufflepuff!" she said. He meowed.

"Well let's clean your cage and filled the disses with some fresh water and food for you, k?" and in a few minutes it was done.

"I got to go! Celebrate a little more and slee... I'm exhausting." she said "Bye bye !!! Love ya !!!" and happily she left the nursery towards the monumental castle.

Clifford had lost count of how many times he'd been to visit Thing now, he TRIED to visit on a regular basis.. but that wasn't really easy what with the TON of homework they'd been getting lately, plus Quidditch practice and atop all of that, prefect duties too.

Whoa... this had DEFFO been one of his busiest terms yet.

"Heeeeey, Thing." Clifford said, kneeling down next to the kneazles cage and poking a finger inside. Thing sniffed at his finger before giving in an affectionate nibble and chuckling, Clifford let the kitty out. He didn't like cats.. or kneazles.. but this little fella had certainly grown on him.

He'd brought his nifty coloured inks with him this time, and planned on doing a niiice drawing to hand in along with his journal. Hehe. Not bothered about the dirty floor, Clifford sat crossed legged and opened Thing's age door, popping a hicken leg he'd remembered to bring along in there. "Now, you gotta stay still alright?" He told the kneazle, pulling out a piece of parchment and setting to work.

Cela had been caught completely by surprise when Copernicus grabbed her and carried her out. It was the weirdest way she had ever been carried ever, but she didn't mind for some reason. Once the cheering charm had worn off Copernicus and he'd let her go, Celandine grinned at him and took off running towards the nursery, assuming he'd be right behind her.

She came to a sudden stop upon reaching the door to the stable and took another one of those deep and cleansing breaths before heading inside and over to the stalls. She giggled at the sight before her, Cassiopeia and Tiberius might have been in seperate stalls, but they were still pressed right up against the centre divide where the two stalls met. It was only a moment later that they recognised her scent and began nickering for attention and food and, Cela figured, to be let out so they could play with each other.

Copernicus was right behind Celandine, and he hopped into Tiberius's stall as soon as they reached the door. "Hey, lad," Cope was immediately bowled over by the now rather large Abraxan, and he squeaked as he was pressed up against the door. "Now, now, there... Tiberius! Stop!" He struggled free from the weight of the horse and moved to fill the feed bucket and muck the stall.

"Want to take them outside for a bit, Cel?"

"Mmmmhmmm." Cela agreed, watching Cope with his abraxan. Cela filled up Cassiopeia's feed bucket and led her out of the stall, giggling as a bit of the mixture slopped on her cheek from Cassiopeia's enthusiasm.

Since Cela had just cleaned out the stall Cassiopeia was in, she didn't need to do much in there and after a few flicks of her wand to get rid of the mucky straw, she was done.

She grinned at Copernicus and whistled at Cassiopeia who obediently followed her outside into the pen.

Copernicus really didn't fit in the stall with Tiberius anymore, so he opened the door to let the Abraxan follow Cassiopea out toward the paddock. He hoped that Cela could handle them both for the duration he needed to finish mucking the stall. Even with magic, it took a few minutes, and he hurried to join her outside.

"I'm not sure we can go into their stalls with them for much longer," he leaned against the fence outside. It was scary to imagine what would have happened to Cela if she'd been pinned like Cope had.

Celandine didn't have to do much, with Cassiopeia already happily trotting into the pen, Tiberius seemed pretty content just to follow along. They were so big now, the size of regular horses and they'd grow to be much much bigger, Cela knew. It was surprisingly easy to adjust to handling them a little more firmly, they still didn't mind hugs after all.

She climbed up on the fence and nodded at Cope as he joined her. "Oh I know, I nearly got stuck between both of them when I moved Cassiopeia out of that stall! I'm fast though. I ducked." Cela told Copernicus solemnly. She sighed happily watching the two abraxans prance about, occassionally their wings flapped powerfully enough that small gusts of air could be felt when the two abraxans were close enough.

"Professor Morgan said she wouldn't be too long." Celandine informed Copernicus, not minding that at all. It did mean she could spend time with just Cope after all. She gave him a little grin before taking out her notebook and skimming over everything she'd written so far.

Cope pulled himself up on the fence to watch the Abraxans and nearly got bowled over when a gust of air from their wings headed his way. Whoa! When had all this happened? He'd been so self-involved in visiting his Abraxan lately, and he'd missed that the foal was no longer... a foal.

"I think we should ask Professor Morgan if we can start mixing the mash with single malt whisky. They're so big already, and it might be nice to see if they'll take the drink now that we've developed their palate." He slid off the fence for fear of being knocked off.

"Good idea." Celandine agreed, gripping hold on to the fence tightly with her free hand and closing her eyes at the strength of the downdraft. She stared at the abraxans for a moment before starting a sketch of the two of them, stopping to look up at Copernicus after a moment and giving him a little grin before continuing. "Want to swap notes later? See if either of us are missing anything?"