Lunch time brought with it a good amount of free time, and after Toby had bolted down something to eat he had rushed straight back to his dormitory. In the end, he'd decided they would be better off staying in his dormitory while he had lessons, in case he ended up tripping and breaking the glass or something, y'know? The Hufflepuff had been dashing back to check on the creatures every time he could spare the few minutes it took to dash back down here. All was well so far.
Toby emerged from the doorway to the dormitory now carrying the jar. The fairies still seemed happy enough, and he carefully set the jar down on the table before taking a seat himself. His plan was to continue talking
to at them, get them used to his voice and, of course, used to him. They certainly seemed to be quite comfortable with him.
"Hi guys," he said to them, reaching into his bag and extracting parchment and the last self-inking quill he could find; he'd have to get some more of those soon.
"Sorry I couldn't get down here after break. I was all the way over at the other side of the castle between my last two lessons, and I'd never have made it back on time. Have you had a good day so far?"
Lalala, just casually talking to these fairies that couldn't talk back. Toby glanced into the jar again to see them doing that posing thing they'd done ever since he'd first coaxed them into the jar.
"I figured I'd give you all names and stuff," Toby said, as a vague explanation for what he was doing with the writing things.
"And I'm gonna write them down so Thompson knows what to call you as well."
The boy grinned, and lay his head down on the desk, all the better to see the fairies, who smiled and waved and started dancing again, already, Toby could tell the difference between them all.
"I think I'll call you Cordelia," he said suddenly, pointing to the tallest fairy in the jar, who also seemed to give off an air of gentle authority. The other fairies had apparently claimed Cordelia as their mother figure, and would look to her from time to time.
"That's my grandmother's name. It's very special."
He continued to watch them, his eyes trailing one in particular. This fairy seemed mischievous, too, and had a clever little look on its face, and so Toby had JUST the name.
"You can be called Puck!" he said, pointing at that fairy in particular.
"That's from an old story or something, I think. I'm not sure... you just remind me of a fairy called Puck that I heard about from a story."
Just behind Puck hovered one of the as yet unnamed ones. Toby had not failed to notice that this one had the largest wings of all the others. Not much in it, but when you spent the amount of time that Toby had spent looking at them, it was a pretty noticeable thing.
But what would be a good name...
"And you... how do you like the name... Tink?" he asked it, though didn't really expect an answer. The thought behind this name was, of course, from the old stories, where Tinkerbell was a character. That didn't really have anything to do with the large wings, Toby just liked it.
Which left the last one. This fairy was smallest, and had a tendency to fly very quickly around the jar, doing a few laps at a time, as though charged with the same energy that Toby always had. He loved to watch this one when it happened.
"And you," he said to the fairy, who wasn't even listening, due to flying around the jar in the aforementioned laps (or, y'know, due to the fact that it couldn't understand him).
"Can be Spyro." Like in the game! Spyro was a dragon, sure, which wasn't the same, but did it really matter.
"I hope you all like your new names."
Toby noted down all of this now, and spent the rest of his lunch break making vague, one-sided conversation with the small creatures, until it was time for afternoon lessons.
"C'mon guys," Toby said, begrudgingly standing and shouldering his schoolbag, before picking up the jar again and heading back to his dormitory to drop it off.
"I'll be back after my last lesson, and then we can hang out some more, yeah? Cool."
And off he went.
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Originally Posted by Parchment
Fairies
-Cordelia (tallest fairy, most motherly one, clearly in charge)
-Puck (mischievous looking one, has that clever sort of expression)
-Tink (biggest wings)
-Spyro (likes to fly around in circles a lot, littlest fairy)