Why did unicorns prefer girls? Who knew really, animals were strange creatures sometimes. It probably wasn't even just one reason but more like many things together. Girls were typically more gentle, quiet, cleaner and just better with animals. Not all girls but most...there were some boys that were like that as well.

Anyhow there was nothing of importance left for Hady to say as everyone else said what she'd been thinking. Therefore keeping her mouth shut she simply glanced around while still paying attention.

While different in ways, a good majority had tinkered around the same ideas leading to this conclusion,"Quite a number of you had gotten the gist of reasons relating to Hygene and Gentle nature." Well, time to start off. "A common theory is on the higher levels of testosterone in men, which typically lead to aggression if high enough. That in effect counters against the Unicorn's own gentle nature leaving men untrustworthy automatically." However, "When it actuality it's the texture of our own skin." How so? "Unicorns are more trusting of softer skin contact. Typically women do have softer skin. Unicorn foals while sensitive are not as selective because of their need for any form of contact. But as you all already know, skin doesn't always stay soft on everyone as we age."

"Often in beauty products geared towards women, the desire to maintain soft and wrinkle-free skin is more prominent compared to men. Therefore the ingredients found in beauty products are collected from vegetation and even some from parts of Unicorns themselves." So that meant, "What attracts Unicorns isn't just on hygene but on the familiar ingredients they sense. Compared to Men's own beauty products, the ladies have a higher concentration. On top of softer skin contact, this is why they find girls more trusting." The parcel still in his arm, Professor Thompson finally decided to lay it out to open it, "So today we will all be using these lotions. The strong fruity smell is from it consisting high levels of a very common ingredient in beauty potions. Unicorn dung and passion fruits." There you have it.

"It was important that you all bathed prior to arriving so any minerals wouldn't conflict with them." Now the instructions, "Everyone take one. Ladies, you'll only have to add some of the lotion to your hands and wrists. Gentlemen, make sure to get your hands and around your neck." The Professor took off his own gloves to unravel the cap on one of the bottles. His happened to be a rather strong flavour of peaches. Using two of his fingers to dab the smooth purple texture under his chin before rubbing it into the front of his neck. Then taking a small helping to rub into his hands. "Once you're done we can head out."

Professor Thompson made sure to wait until just about everyone had done so. Didn't want any of them to miss out on the majestic beauties of Unicorns. So with that he lead them out past the clearing and original garden where those stubborn Gnomes once were. The trek didn't take long, as they were led to a section of the forest. The Permitable one of course. "Alright, for now keep your voice low." Eventually, they could see why as they came across a herd of Unicorns of all sizes and colours. As they were surrounding the pond of drinking water. Everyone could see this through the temporarily open hedges. "Alright. So we don't end up scaring them, we'll go one at a time to introduce ourselves to one of them. " So how are they to do that now?

"Ladies, since you have the proper advantage you each can simply walk up to a Unicorn. Slowly of course. Running towards them will only spook them. The smell of the lotion will get them to be curious on the scent. Once they notice you are to remain still. Offer out your hand with the palm facing towards them so they can smell it proper."

Now then, "With gentlemen some might try to nibble on one of your fingers. Try not to panic, since this is just them testing your reaction. If you panic or react wildly they won't take kindly of that and move away from you. So you'll have to try again with a different one." But why, "The lotion is merely a mask to get them to be willing to approach you. It will not deter them from recognizing your personality. Though you are welcome to add more on you to help increase their interest." They just might to bathe again after if they don't want to smell so strongly of fruits anymore. "Once they have given your palm a lick you're free to pet and get acquainted with them."

"Like so," With that the Professor went through the hedges. Appearance wise, he was definitely the more opposing figure to them with his age and height. He casually walked toward the pond, his arms resting against his sides before stopping. One of the unicorns, a silver one, noticed him. Seeing Professor Thompson not move a muscle peaked the silver one's interest even more.

Ignoring the pure white Unicorn's soft huffing in possible discouragement the silver one walked up to him. The only thing that moved of the Professor was his hand as he faced the palm of it towards it, but not raising it yet. The Unicorn then circled around the Professor smelling him as he gradually raised the palm out as if to feed it. That was when the silver Unicorn paid attention to the palm. Sniffing it for some time before giving it a sharp bite.

Javier didn't flinch. He had endured worse bites from creatures in his studying years. Him not moving or making any loud noise in reaction to it, made the Unicorn lick the hand particularly where he was bitten, stopping the blood and healing it. Now Professor Thompson was petting the silver Unicorn. Turning his head to look at the students while doing so you knew what it meant. It was time to meet the Unicorns.

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OOC:As instructed you are to get acquainted with the Unicorn in three labeled posts.

Ladies are to do the following:

- Approach a Unicorn of any age.
- Remain still once notice and not move until they're close enough.
- Hold out the palm of hand towards them.
- Allow them to sniff it for their preference in length of time.
- Once the palm is licked, you're free to pet and talk with them.

Gentlemen are to do the following above mentioned with the few exceptions:

- Keep away from the Unicorns with golden foals.
- Remain still and only gradually raise palm whilst they circle around towards the back of you.
- If they nibble/bite, try not to scream. They'll lick the palm all better after if you remain in control.

You will have until February 20th 11:59 pm EST to complete this before we continue. Feel free to poke, im, pm, vm me for any questions you have and I will get to them.

So the higher levels of testosterone in men would lead to aggression if high enough. Did that mean that he had testosterone or whatever it was called oozing off him ? eww. Kevin listened to the man’s theory about beauty products and watched as he opened up the parcel he had been keeping in his arm. The Gryffindor looked inside and then back up again. Beauty Potions….unicorn dung and passion fruits? Yeah he was NOT rubbing unicorn dung on himself!

Wait…..bathed? They had to take a bath before coming to this class? Had he missed something on the notice board? The Gryffindor smelled himself and then shrugged his shoulders. He was fine…he thought. He didn’t smell himself so that was a good thing right? Besides, it probably didn’t matter if he had taken a bath or not.

Taking one of the lotions, Kevin made a face at it because he did not like the dung part and only when he was sure that the professor wasn’t joking about rubbing it on their bodies and he had down it himself he would …try it too. But only because they were going to see unicorns and although he didn’t think it was anything special, he had never seen one before so yeah…

“Why do we have to add this …stuff.. around our neck?” he asked. “Wait…they don’t try to bite our necks off right?” because sorry for the creature but he WILL attack back if it attacked him first. He rubbed the purple lotion under his chin and neck and also his hands.

He followed the Professor as he led them to the forest and watched as he disappeared through the hedges after instructing them what to do. He peered through the hedges to see what was going on. “A sickle saying he gets attacked” he said to no one in particular and grinned. But then his grin faded away when he saw the unicorns standing around the drinking water and his mouth fell open.

It was..they were….”wow“ he had gasped, they were so beautiful, like..how even? Oh wait, he was supposed to not find them impressive. But even he couldn’t help and admire them. Before he knew it, it was time for them to meet the unicorns as well and Kevin stepped through the hedges.

Kace totally spaced out on the second question, he didn't even know it was asked. He heard the men when they have higher testosterone it can lead to more aggression. He totally agreed with that and he eyed Kevin over there. Aahh so they liked softer skin and he nodded and noted that unicorns loved women because of their gentle nature. But wait they needed to put on lotion? Ermm but why on their necks? That seemed a bit odd but whatever the Professor said goes right? He began to put the lotion on his neck and his hands. Once that was done and he felt the breeze on his neck and hands, he began to follow the Professor down to where the Unicorns were.

He heard the Professor's lecture and noted that the Unicorn's were cautious but he knew why they put the lotion on. He waited in the back and let the women go first. Since they liked them better it seemed only fitting. He tried to remain calm but he was awestruck by their beauty. He remember seeing them last term was it? Yeah probably and he loved their beauty as creatures. He began to walk up behind the girls and noticed one unicorn with a foal. Welp better stay away from that one.

He began just to observe the creatures for now.

As Professor Thompson explained why Unicorns trusted females more than males, Lux made sure to take thorough notes. This could prove to be important on the test, and she never would have thought of that concept on her own.

Time for the activity, and she was excited to pet a Unicorn. Hopefully this time the meeting would go a little better, though that calming draught could be used at any time. She wished she could pet a baby, but the thought of an annoyed mother made her feel hesitant to.

After applying the lotion to her hands and wrists, Lux made her way sloooooowly over to one of the beautiful adults.

HAAAAI, UNICORN. LET'S BE FRIENDS.

As the creature's eyes locked on hers, she stood still so as to not frighten it away.

Lotion? All it took was a little lotion to get your hands on some unicorns? Noted! She was gonna rub Mikey Toussaint down with some lotion and they were SOoOOOOoo totes going unicorn hunting.

"It slays me, Professor, that LOTION is what work on these one-horners. I mean,lotion! How girly can you GET? hahahaha! I'd like to see us use a little lotion on a Erumpent!" Hilarrrrrriiiiiious!

But Zahra figured Professor T was wrong on that boogers thing. If it was hygiene and testosterone, then yeah... that had EVERYTHING to do with booger-eating. He was probz just embarrassed 'cause Z knew about that. Hehe. She didn't judge.

ANYWHO..... SUP UNICORNS. Zahra went for the BIGGEST looking one. SLOW like, grinning, stinking like fruity LOTION of all things.

Aha. So that question was finally cleared up for him. Adi was now feeling a whole lot knowledgeable about unicorns. Yup. Lotions? The guys...dudes... will have to put those things on them? Heh. Well, since it was unicorns they were dealing with (and he'd have to deal with a whole lot of them in the future), it was best he just go on right ahead. Adi got some of the lotion in his hands and gingerly rubbed it on his hands and neck.

He followed the rest of the class and Thompson to the forest where they were given more instructions and a demonstration. Right. He thought he had the gist of things. He seriously doubted that a unicorn would dislike him. The would sense his awesome personality. Hehe.

The fifth year followed Kace as he kept in mind that he was to stay away from the Unicorns with the golden foals. Ugh! Girls had it so easy... they could just approach any of their choosing. It was so unfair and Adi almost wanted to sulk about the whole thing.

But he stood there looking at the creatures. Remain stilllllll was what he had to do when he saw one approaching.

Afraid to move even slightly in case it scared off the Unicorn, Lux watched the creature cautiously approach. It was so beautiful and she couldn't believe that she was going to pet one. If only they could do the same with baby dragons and she could have a mermaid friend.

When the Unicorn was close enough, Lux slowly moved her hand outwards with the palm facing upward. The animal was obviously being cautious, but it did proceed to sniff at her hand. She would stand as still as possible until she got the sign that it was okay to pet it.

How could an animal be so beautiful.

After what felt like forever but was actually a few minutes, the Unicorn licked her palm. That meant that it liked her and she was allowed to pet it. This was awesome and one of her favourite Care of Magical Creatures lessons so far.

DIDJA HEAR THAT, PEOPLE? SHE GOT A POINT. NORAH KITTREDGE GOT A WHOLE ENTIRE POINT ALL BY HERSELF. Ahem. But not freaking out or anything, nope. Teenager, remember? She grinned at Professor Thompson but didn't run up to hug him or anything which was pretty impressive, y'know. It was even more impressive when he said they were gonna meet real live unicorns, 'cause that was even excitinger than getting a whole entire point.

She was going to raise her hand back up again and ask what testosterone was, but he'd already moved on to soft-hand things, which she hadn't even thought about. Norah eyed her hands closely. They didn't look very soft. She patted her cheek, which felt pretty soft, but did that mean her cheek was soft or her hand was soft? Everything was so confusing. Lotion, though. That was pretty cool. And weird, because why did being a girl have to mean people wanted her buy more beauty products? That wasn't fair, beautifulness sounded hard, why'd SHE have to do it, HMM? But UNICORNS. That was the real thing goin' on here.

The got to the lotion as fast as she could, 'cause she wanted to be first in line to find a unicorn bestie. She rubbed it allll over her hands and wrists, because the more the better right, and took a deep inhale before slowing all her movements down and approaching the opening in the hedge with tiptoe-y feet and everything. This was the real deal, okay, Norah absolutely 100% NEEDED a unicorn bestie, and scaring it away would be bad news. The Puffer continued to tiptoe 'till she was in the clearing, suppressing a soft gasp because they were SO. PRETTY. Forget beauty products, they should be advertising UNICORNS. She set her eyes on a mediumish silver one and immediately knew it was the ONE. The unicorn bestie one. Holding her hand out, she mentally WILLED it to come over for snuggles. Pretty please?

They were so awesome! The unicorns he meant. Adi couldn't help but stare at them all, wishing with all his Huffleuff heart that he could just rush up to any one of the unicorns and pet them. But nooooo he was forced to lurk in the background. Adi looked towards his girlfriend and smiled to himself. She must be enjoying herself so much. She wouldn't faint from happiness or excitement, right? Heh.

Looking away from AJ, the boy noticed one of the unicorns, a silver one, staring towards him. It was look at him and not Kace, right? Anywaaay, he would remain as still as he could. That was sort of a difficult thing since he was usually so fidgety and full of energy. Buuut, this was IMPORTANT so he would have to be super still. Like a statue.

Adi willed the unicorn to come closer quickly. He hated standing there all frozen like. Closer and closer came the creature, seemingly surveying the Hufflepuff with caution and interest. Adi turned his palm towards it but did not raise it. He waited half impatiently as the unicorn began to circle him, smelling him in the process. So far so good. Everything was going according to plan so Adi raised his palm. He did so just as Thompson had done... gradually. The unicorn sniffed Adi's palm.

PROGRESS!

And now we wait for the unicorn's next response.

Giggling, Lux began petting the Unicorn. She gently ran her hand along its head and mane. "You are so good. If I had a treat for you, that would be perfect. I'm sorry I don't." Professor Thompson mentioned that they liked to eat but she wasn't sure if they also liked apples, sugar cubes, or carrots.

This was a lot like petting a normal horse, though obviously the horn was something different. "I wish I could take you home with me. I would look after you really well and we could go for rides all the time when I'm not at school." Of course there was the problem of her not being able to keep a Unicorn in a stable without attracting attention, but it was nice to dream.

Smiling, Lux kept petting the Unicorn and it seemed to enjoy it. She just loved animals.

Well that explained why the special request that they be freshly washed. It had seemed weird to Benny, at least from someone other than Bellaire and before a lesson that normally got them dirty anyway. And it seemed AJ...and Angel too...had an advantage to dealing with the unicorns just by being themselves. So much for Adi being able to get his girlfriend one. It would probably be best to have said girlfriend there with him to help it seemed, to get the female advantage into the mix.

Taking a bottle of lotion for himself as instructed, Ben followed the man with the rest wherever he was leading them. To a part of the forest with a pond and hedges. There. There were the unicorns. Benny might not be as crazy about them as AJ was, but he still appreciated the sight he was seeing. A whole herd right there before them and they would be allowed to be up close and personal with them.

He awaited his turn, the boy removing his gloves before opened the bottle of lotion and began rubbing some on his neck around his scarf as well as both his hands. It smelled a little like sweetened lemons to him, reminding him of the activity from the previous lesson. Then as he listened to Professor Thompson go on with what he wanted each of them to do or at least attempt to do, the Gryffindor paid careful attention to all that was being said. He certainly didn't want to mess up and freak one or more of the majestic creatures out in his endevours.

When he was up, Benny cautiously stepped into the area. He remained quiet as not to scare them away as he slowly approached one of the older unicorns. staying away from any with fawns. When he was still a reasonable distance away, he froze, staying in place as he watched both his intended target and any others around him.

Here...unicorn.

Skin. This was about skin.

Toby looked from Thompson down to the palms of his own hands before he rubbed them together distractedly. Were they not soft? He'd never really noticed before. The professor was going on about beauty products and ingredients but in all honestly Toby had almost completely zoned out by this point, distracted by looking at his hands.

But then his attention was grabbed again, by Thompson mentioning the ingredients of some lotion he'd brought with him. That he wanted them to apply. Lotion made with unicorn dung.

Great.

Still, it needed to be done. Toby retrieved a bottle of the lotion and, trying not to focus on what it was made of, started applying it to his hands and... neck. When it was time to head out, Toby waved goodbye to Lala and followed the group to the unicorns. Once they were there Toby couldn't help but staaaare at them, 'cause they were just so beautiful. But still he tried super hard to listen to Thompson's instructions, because obviously they were gonna be pretty important.

When it was his turn, Toby moved forward into the area and looked around him for a possible unicorn to befriend. He wasn't really scared of those sharp, brutal looking horns on their heads, but he was certainly mindful of the fact that he was a boy in the territory of creatures who tended not to like boys at all. Not for the first time in his life, Toby felt a surge of gratitude for his small frame. Sure, he was no girl, but he definitely couldn't be considered imposing.

Nearby there stood an adult, pure white unicorn that seemed to almost shine. It was watching him curiously, so Toby stood dead still. Then, eventually, it began to step towards him. Toby only watched and waited and made sure not to move a muscle.

Which... was incredibly difficult. He needed to fidget. Needed to. The energy was already building and suppressing it was almost painful and he wanted to move, even just his fingers. But that didn't seem like a good idea and Tobias tried so very hard to not give in. He was still. He was a statue.

A point! YES! He'd GLADLY take a point, in fact, if it pleased the Professor he'd even take TWO! or THREE! or FOUR! Or ALLLLLLL the points in the History of Hogwarts. But one wasted too, very good.

The whole skin thing had him curious, but he was thrilled that smell was also a part of it.

Lotion though, now THAT was funny. He was smirking a little at the thought of it, and only when Professor Thompson mentioned there was DUNG in it that he felt a teeny weeny bit more masculine. Dung was a guy thing, no? He thought it was.

Accepting the lotion and lathering up with it, Zeke rubbed it into his hands and wrists, around his neck and even up on his cheeks. It surely couldn't hurt, right? Yeaaaahhhhhhhh.

Before he knew it they were all heading outside, and this is where the excitement came in.

Again, Professor Thompson made things look do easy, there really wasn't anything to it. He'd ace this, he'd ace it with his lotiony girl hands! HAHAHAHA! He had to admit though, just the sight of the unicorns - the ones with the foals too - were making him feel different. Calmer. He was definitely calmer, he felt quieter than his usual self.

Waiting his turn to enter and approach the unicorns, Zeke paced himself, careful not to make any sharp or sudden movements and he was conscious of not sneaking up behind them. Eye contact man, it was the bomb. It took a few moments, but eventually one unicorn did take notice of him. It was a pretty one, or was it handsome? Big and white, with a big horn. BIG HORN. It stared at him for a moment, and he froze, legit FROZE. Barely breathing. Come to hiiimmmm! Be his friend!!!

Still twirling the lock of ginger hair, Brooklyn had stayed quiet through the discussion portion of the lesson. So they were going to be seeing unicorns, and the rule about bathing was because they needed to use lotion before they left. Seemed odd to her, but then she still sort of thought of a unicorn as just a specific kind of horse. She’d been around horses, and they didn’t need lotion to make them trust her. It was weird, but she’d rather smell fruity than stinky. Although, considering there was supposed to be dung in the lotion, she wasn’t convinced it would smell nice until she chose a bottle and squirted a small amount onto one hand. Weird, she thought, smelling it. It smelled kind of like strawberries, which was definitely better than dung. Since it passed her approval, she spread it over her hands and wrists as she followed the group out to the forest.

Her eyes had widened a bit when she noticed the pond and the herd of unicorns of all sizes drinking there, and she’d just watched as Professor Thompson had demonstrated what they were supposed to do. Not even flinching when the unicorn had nipped at his hand, just watching intently. So intently that she hardly noticed the signal that they were allowed to approach them on their own. She’d snapped out of the near-trance as others had stepped past her, though. They weren’t going to choose all the good ones before she could. Stepping through the opening, she let her blue eyes scan the herd before it had locked on a mother and foal. Nobody had said she had to stay away from those, just the boys did.

She kept moving slowly, though, stopping as first the baby and then the mother had looked up at her. Now all she had to do was wait.

After what seemed like an ETERNITY of sniffing the unicorn decided it would give three of Adi's fingers- the middle, index and ring fingers- of his left raised hand a bite. He had expected it to bite after the one Thompson demonstrated on did the same but nothing could prepare him for the piercing pain he felt. OUCHIES! Adi's eyes widened behind his glasses and he bit down hard on his lower lip from uttering a sound. But hey! He remained still otherwise but the throbbing pain was still there. He waited some more for the unicorn's actions.

This time, the unicorn didn't take forever to make its next move as it moved in to lick his palm and fingers it had tried to bite off. The Hufflepuff could feel the pain being to subside a bit but he ignored that and immediately began to pet the silver creature.

"Hallo! What's up? Did you know you're an awesome looking creature? One of the best looking in my opinion.'' Hippogriffs came first, ya know. "I wish I could have you as the first unicorn for my unicorn farm. Well, the farm isn't for me. It's going to be for my girlfriend.'' How was she progressing with her own unicorn, anyway?

Pat, pat pat!

"I'm Adi, by the way. A fifth year Hufflepuff up at Hogwarts. If you could be Sorted into a House, which do you think you would be in?" Hehe. As if the Unicorn could reply, Adi.

Listening. That's what this second year was doing. And rather closely cause when it came to interacting with an animal of any sorts all her attention was there. So when it came time to lotion she made her way over accepting a bottle and twisting it's cap off.

Inhaling deeply she giggling lightly to herself that it happened to smell something like sour apple candy, a really wonderfully strong fruity scent. Pouring some into her open palm she closed the bottle and returned it to the box. Rubbing her hands together and getting all nice and lotiony she followed the Professor towards the pond area her eyes widening slightly at the sight.

UNICORNS! Lots of um all just standing there and drinking and-and oh wow!

Hady stood there for a moment watching the Professor closely while he showed them what to do. When told to the Slytherin slowly made her way forward her eyes searching each one in turn. She wanted the perfect one. Nothing less then perfect for her.

Just as she was about to take another step towards one of the medium ones a small unicorn that was still golden in color but appeared to be turning silverish for it looked like it was starting to get flecks of the color turned it's head towards her. The babies mother also watching her closely. Hady froze mid-step her hands dropping to her sides as she watched them closely in return.

Apparently she wouldn't be picking her unicorn today. The unicorn would be picking her.

Once Thompson brought her back down to planet earth, AJ was more alert. This time around things didn't go unnoticed. She heard laughter close to her, and she turned her head in the right direction. None other than Kevin was laughing at her. Thoughts of going over there to stomp his toes went through her mind, but unicorns were happening and choices needed to be made. You were lucky this time, Kevin. Next time he would find out exactly why you didn't go and mess up her unicorn trance.

Unicorns were coming out. Focus. Do not lose your mind. Must not go full out unicorn crazy. Breathe in. Breathe out. Deep breaths were happening as she counted to ten. If she messed this up her whole world would fall apart. With every ounce of restraint she could muster she watched as unicorns were brought out in front of her. Her leg started to twitch, but she was able to hold her ground.

They were going to interact with them now, and boy was it a good thing she was a female. This was going to be cake. Not to mention that AJ's love for them had to be seeping through her every pore. That had to make them totes comfortable. Once the professor gave the okay, AJ slowly walked over to them. As slow as she could given that all of her little dreams were about to come true.

Hady could hear a low noise that she wasn't exactly able to place but upon close inspection of the unicorns she was able to figure out it was the older one. The mother of the baby that didn't seem to be listening and was ever so slowly making it's way towards her.

It was coming closer!

With each step the tiny baby unicorn made towards her, her excitement grew but she kept it under lock and key. No freaking out for her! A few more steps from the baby had Hady slowly lifting her hand out straight, palm up in front of it and waited with baited breath.

After a brief moment the baby unicorn sniffed her hand. Once, twice and then several more times seeming to really like the fruity smell. Thanks Professor! Hady silently thought her eyes glued on the sniffing unicorn and it's mother whom had taken a few steps to keep a close eye on it's baby.

Please lick my hand! Please, please! The second year chanted in her head over and over.

Angel was not looking forwards too this, she wasn't as keen as her sister was on doing this but unicorns were unicorns and maybe it would be fun to have ago looking at the animal and giving it a nice stroke, just so that the unicorn knew that she liked him even if she didn't love them like her sister AJ did.

Angel was glad that she was a female because that meant that she was going to be able to approach one a lot easier than what she would have been able to if she was a boy, how cool was that.

Angel waited until the Professor gave them permission to walk towards the unicorn before she slowly walked over, she didn't want to scare them because that meant that they might run away and she had a feeling that the Professor wouldn't be impressed with her if she did that.

Angel walked slowly, wondering which of the unicorn would be picking her, since she knew that it would be one of the unicorn that picked her.

It felt like an eternity as the unicorn slowly and SUPER cautiously approached him. One hoof in front of the other, pause, another hoof in front of the first, pause, another hoof forward and so it continued until finalllyyyyy.... the unicorn was practically staring him in the face, only a metre or two between them (he always was bad at telling distance).

Zeke stood there, as still as possible, and tried to figure out the unicorn psyche. What was it thinking????

As the glorious white creature returned his gaze, it extended its neck as if sniffing the air around him. Was it 'sniffing'?

OOOHHH!!!!

HIS LOTION! HAND! LOTION!

Slowly, very carefully with NO sudden movements, Zeke extended his own hand forward, his fingers curled into his palm to create a fist. Come and sniff a little closer, he wouldn't bite!

It was almost as if she had an out of body experience. Here she was in the forest and the unicorns were here, but she didn't remember actually walking out of the barn and into the forest. What was that smell? AJ sniffed her hands. Apparently she had put lotion on her hands too. Looking around it seemed to be the right thing to do. How much had she missed? Zoning out wasn't a good thing. What if she messed something up, and the unicorns wouldn't want her?

She was there in front of unicorns and her trance was back. She closed her eyes for a moment and talked herself down. She couldn't jump on them and ride them like a pony. AJ had been there and done that. Thompson had threatened her with detention for her entire Hogwarts career. No thank you.

The most beautiful of ALL unicorns was coming towards her. Oh goodesss... oh goodness... She was as still as a statue, and as soon as she was SURE that the unicorn was coming towards her she extended her hand. It was the love. The unicorns could sense her intentions. This was really happening. Inner flailing happened since outer flailing was clearly not okay.

As they started getting acquainted with each other, Zeke uncurled his fingers, exposing his palm to the creature. It could sniff and lick all it liked as far as he was concerned, so long as it didn't do that biting thing. But speaking of biting... while HE wasn't about to take a bite out of the pretttttyyyy unicorn, it didn't stop the creature from taking a bite out of him...

OUCH!

Since Professor Thompson warned them that it might happen, he HALF expected it - as a possibility. So though the bloody thing hurt like hell, he didn't make a sound, nor did he make any sudden movements.

And then it bit him AGAIN!

His mental anguish was immense.

Was he allowed to talk to the creature? Or would that spook it?

... In the end he figured it was safer to play dead - dead on his feet - and so he held his position, palm still extended and let the unicorn do to him whatever it felt necessary to test his trustworthiness.

Please stop biting him!!!!! How much more lotion was even LEFT on his hand? Is that what it wanted? To eat lotion? Heck, he'd get it a whole bottle then!

Sniff sniff sniff. The little unicorn was still contently sniffing at her hand. Come on, come on I won't hurt you...she urged silently still remaining stock still not daring to move a muscle.

Just as she thought all the unicorn was going to do all day was sniff at her hand she felt it! A little wetness on her palm. It was the smallest of licks but it was a lick none the less! Keeping still she waited to see what would happen not at all minding when the baby unicorn went on to give her hand several more licks as well as her wrist.

With a tiny giggle Hady slowly reached out with her other hand to very lightly rub the unicorns side. So soft and silky... so gentle and sweet. "Hey there little one..." The second year breathed in a small whisper. "You're really quiet beautiful, is that okay to say? I don't know if you're a boy or girl so yeah I guess beautiful could work..."

The unicorn lifted his head mid-lick to check her out it's eyes darting from Hady's face to her hand that was petting it, to it's mother and back again. It seemed unsure but it didn't move. The mother inched closer but not enough so to be petted herself and that was alright for Hady was highly content just petting to it's baby, however she spoke to the mother as well. "You have a lovely baby here, thank you for allowing me to pet him/her." Yup she had just thanked a unicorn. No biggy really right? It was best to be polite especially since she wasn't being bitten.

All her focus was on the mother and beautiful baby as she continued to pet the baby. Somewhat losing focus on anyone else that was still around her, though she was listening still if just barely.

Angel had finished walking towards the unicorn and was now just standing there, waiting to see which unicorn would come towards her. "Please not a massive one, Please not a massive one." Angel thought to herself in her head, seriously she hoped that things wouldn't be very bad.

Angel suddenly saw a young unicorn coming to herself and she nearly did a little dance but remembered just in time that she had to stand still and wait and see what the young unicorn did, she suddenly saw it walk very close to her, this was going to be interesting.

Angel smiled as she looked at the unicorn and then she raised her hand so that it was held out, she waited with bated breath to see what the unicorn would do, she really hoped that it wouldn't leave her hanging because they she wouldn't know what to do, "Come on unicorn." Angel thought to herself again, she was sure it wanted to sniff her hand.