Abigail kept her distance from the area she assumed the larger animals were kept, she knew from a friend that you had to be careful with them. Looking around on the floor she noticed a couple of feathers that seemed to match those of the Hippogriff’s. Walking over to them she bent down an pick them up placing them in her bag.

As she stood up again her eyes widened as she watched Arrick walking into one of the pen's! She knew there could be something dangerous in there so quickly shouted “Arrick stop!”...

Arrick froze in his tracks at hearing Abigail's yell and looked around him frantically...and saw nothing. Was she just trying to play him so she could get at something first, or did she really see something around the pen that he didn't?

He frowned and turned around to frown at Abigail, then looked around the pen and beyond it. There wasn't anything to be seen that looked like it was out for his blood.

He resumed frowning at Abigail again and took a few steps to his left, away from his previous path. There seemed to be some bits of what looked like hair snagged on one of the posts, which he pocketed. It was probably just hair from a regular old horse or a long wispy stalk of hay, since Arrick couldn't tell what was what, but it was something.

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There are NO magical creatures of any kind roaming around free in the Magical Creatures Sanctuary or in the Forbidden Forest unless otherwise stated. We do not want to see anyone RPing with creatures in either location and if you do, your posts will be deleted. Sorry for any misunderstandings. Thank you.

“You never know what could be in there that you can’t see Arrick! You have to be careful.”

She started looking around again for other discarded feathers and hairs. She wasn’t sure what a Abraxan or an Augurey was so figured she might as well take samples of anything she found and ask a professor when she got back.

Josh laughed over the words and lookep up to see their owner: another Hufflepuff girl. ''Yeah, that's right. Remember seeing the little pieces of dust appear around in the sunglow coming from a window? Be careful if you do because if you happen to inhale them into your nose they climb up your brain and eat it'' roaring with laughter he got back to his work.

Abigail turned around at the sound of laughter to find a boy her age, which going by his tie was a Gryffindor. She couldn’t believe it when he started making fun of her! Especially when he obviously didn’t know what he was talking about.

Rolling her eyes at his comment “You obviously haven’t heard of Thestrals if you’re going to try and make fun of me like that.” She knew there wasn’t anything in the pen, but she didn’t want Arrick making that mistake in the future when the pen could be occupied. Plus this guy didn’t know that. “Don’t listen to him Arrick, you’re in the magical world now. The pen might look empty but that doesn’t mean that it is.”

"Ernt tell me what t'do," Arrick drawled, annoyed. Did he look like the kind to go gallabanting around into harm's way? He scowled a bit at Josh, too, but he knew how silly the other boy could be so he figured what was said wasn't serious.

But Abigail mentioned Thestrals. Which were also on the list of things to find stuff from. And they were supposed to be what?

"Thestrals are unseeable?" Arrick paused. Great. They were supposed to look for invisible things? "Ernt find what you ernt see. Balmy, this is, all of it," he muttered.

He sidestepped a pile of dung, making a face as he continued poking about the pen.

“Well I’m sorry for wanting to make sure you wouldn’t get hurt! And yes Thestrals are invisible...unless you’ve seen death that is” That was it she was fed up trying to help Arrick, he could do it on his own from now on, and if he got hurt it was his own fault. Turning her back on the boys she continued to look for discarded feathers and hairs, in the hope that at least some of her samples would be what the professor was looking for.

Well that didn't make sense. Invisible unless you've seen death? Did that mean that Thestrals had something to do with death themselves? Like...zombies?

Not that Arrick believed zombies existed, either.

And what did Abigail care if Arrick got hurt? It had nothing to do with her, and it wasn't like she was his mum. Arrick shrugged off the thoughts and picked out a fluff of down sticking out from the grass. It didn't look like it would fit in a wand, but what did he know about these sorts of things.

Finding nothing else of interest in the pen, Arrick climbed over the fence again and went to investigate the large stone building instead. That's where all the stuff was kept, right? So it had to be brimming with whatever it was they were looking for...

Josh laughed again looking at the two ''I'm sorry'' he said between laughters ''No mean to be rude but...come on!'' he opened his arms ''There'r no Thestrals here. If you happen to see one though, which is unlikely to happen, say 'hi' from me...please'' he walked near them ''And i'm not making fun of you anyway...i'm making fun of your idea'' he turned to Arrick, the weird boy who he earlier had seen in the train. ''I doubt there's anything invisible in here, Hufflepuff boy'' and he went back on searching.

Abigail hated this boy already. Tears welled up in her eyes as she continued to look around, luckily they were hidden from the boys view by her hair as they slid down her cheeks. ‘How would he know what I can and can’t see? I was just trying to be a good friend to Arrick...I suppose that backfired. Well I don’t need him as a friend I can get along fine on my own!’

Not wanting to hang around she moved further away from them hoping she’d find something soon so as she could leave.

A distinctive cry can be heard from inside the stone building as an irritated Augurey flaps its wings wildly from inside his cage. As he settles back to sleep; little greenish-black feathers fall to the floor.

Leaf in one pocket and hippogriff feather in the other, LouAnn entered the Magical Creature's Sanctuary. She was in search of a long list of items, only...she honestly had no idea exactly where to look to find them. The leaf and the feather had more or less just jumped out at her, but all the other items seemed a little out of reach. Especially the ones at that Whomping Willow---sheesh. She edged her way past a few other students and then glanced around, hoping a few other items (the entire or so) would also jump out at her.

...and just as she thought that, little greenish feather coming from an Augery fluttered down, and LouAnn reached up high and caught one. She stored it away in her pocket alongside the hippogriff feather she'd retrieved from the forest.

Having wandered over to the magical creature sanctuary from the student gardens, Tibi was startled by a cry from inside the building. Peering in, timidly, Tibi saw an animal flapping its wings, feathers falling to the ground. He didn't know what it was, but he figured it was on the list, somewhere. Walking up hesitatingly, Tibi grabbed a feather from the ground and hurried out.

So this was weird, Cela thought she knew where all the different kinds of creatures were. She spotted the Augrey when it made noise and picked up a feather, placing it with her other bits.

She could get the Abraxan stuff from Cassiopeia or Tiberius right? And...

Gasp!

People wouldn't try to pull their feathers and tail hairs would they? Cela would guard them! She would!

And what about the snidget... Professor Morgan had the only one of those...

As she was walking around Abigail found herself next to a stone building. She heard an animal’s cry come from inside and slowly approached it. Noticing other students retrieving feathers which the animal had obviously just moulted, she walked over and picked one up for herself. She didn’t know what type of animal this was but its feathers were a greenish-black colour. Placing it in her back she left the area so as she didn’t disturb the animal. ‘I’ll have to look these up in my book’ she thought ‘I haven’t a clue if this is something I’m meant to be collecting or not.’ She reached into her bag and poled out her book then started flipping through it.

Celandine wandered into the stables, intending to see the abraxans and make sure nobody could molest them for feathers and tail-hairs.

Leading the way once again, Torin headed over to the animal sanctuary. He had never been here before, and it was a nice place.

He couldn't help but gaze around as he wondered what clue they would find next.


And then he saw on the ground some feathers from an Augurey near where he was standing. He bent over and picked two up. He handed one to Jack.

Jack remembered Cale telling him about him and Plymouth being attacked by a Clabbert in this place, but he had never actually been in here. In fact, half of these animals he didn't even recognize. Strannnnnge. He looked over as some sort of bird started squawking and dropping it's feathers around...he grabbed the one that Torin had handed him. OH now he remembered! It was an Augurey!

"I didn't know they used their feathers for wands," he mumbled as he pocketed it.

"Same here, mate," he said as he watched Jack pocket the feather. They were making good time with this he thought. They had already found like 4 things on the list.

"How about we head to the student gardens now?" Which was back in the Herbology area...

Hmm.

Copernicus headed for the sanctuary, hoping to check on Tib and Cass in case anyone got a smart idea about harassing them. Those were
HIS Abraxans. Well, his... and Cela's. Theirs. Yeah.

As he wandered down the aisle, Copernicus spotted dark feathers scattered on the floor of the hut. He grabbed a few and stuck them in his satchel before continuing toward Tib's stall.

NO ABRAXAN HAIRS FOR YOUUUU.

Jack nodded. "Sure, sounds like a good place to look for--more trees we can't identify," he said with a grin. They were making awesome progress! This actually wasn't as hard as he thought it was...not yet, at least. He reminded himself to stop and cross off all the times they had once they got to the next place.

"Come on, let's get moving!" he said with a chuckle before heading towards the gardens again.

Just outside the stable doors sits a wooden bench. Upon the bench a horse brush has been left out. Are those flaxen colored hairs still clinging to the bristles?

Just as she'd stuffed the Augery feather into her pocket, LouAnn headed outside the stable doors to take a few more glances around. When she did so, her eyes fell upon a horse brush that someone had laid upon a bench. She started to turn away from the site, but stopped when she caught site of---was that? Oh, it was! Eyes gleaming with happiness, LouAnn reached over and scooped up a few of the flaxen-colored hairs slightly clinging to the brush. She felt her pockets, which were both full of random items she'd picked up on her journey throughout the school. She had to be at least halfway finished with that list by now!

Cela beamed when she spotted a brush, one of the ones that they used on their abraxans. She picked off a few hairs and pocketed them, what about a feather? She continued hunting around the stables.