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Suziella · 05-11-2018, 04:21 PM

It was the middle of October, and though it was very chilly at night, in the middle of the day it was still moderately nice out. Not too hot, not too cold...just right. It was a perfect day for this Creature Companions activity Professor Wayland had planned. He had set the time for right after lunch so every one had a chance to get a good meal in before all the exploring they would be doing.

Tristan stood by the edge of The Great Lake, no hay bale throne this time, next to a table that had all kinds of swimming gear, gillyweed, and wand holsters. He really hoped this would be a fun activity for the students. Let the adventure begin!

OOC: Welcome to the first Creature Companions Activity! This extra-curricular meeting will be used for plot purposes -- so feel free to drop in and bring a friend!

debpetrisor · 05-17-2018, 04:31 AM

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The gillyweed was…well, gross. Slimy but it wasn’t anything like the seaweed the young girl had had in seaweed salads as a kid – no, this had a twang. It was also slimier…and there was that feeling, the way her breathing had started to become strained with the first bite.

The small thing strapped her wand to her leg before tucking a small potion of gillyweed – an extra clumb into a little locket she refused to remove. She didn’t want to drown because she’d run out of gillyweed.

She had learned that bubble spell if she needed to use it – her mum had taught it to her over summer. Point and say the word. If she needed to she’d cast it under water on any and all of her friends…and even non-friends. Slytherin was beautiful, of course and Beth knew about that special was fun…she glanced around the waters to make sure her friends and everyone was safe.

Maybe, they could see a Merperson? That’d be fun…listening to them speak in their native world.

Stay where they were, right. He could totally do that, professor Wayland didn't even need to ask not to follow him. Even he wasn't that foolishly curious to swim over to some possibly irritated merpeople. Even though he'd spotted the hippocampus, and he'd always wanted to see one up close, so bad... but no, he needed to refrain himself. Especially since he was so unfamiliar with being underwater, scared of the depths of it, and all.

But was that... Beth? Heading right towards the merpeople?!

Before the Slytherin could get too far, he'd taken hold of her arm to hold her back. He'd never even realized that he'd somehow propelled himself through the water - maybe professor Wayland was right and the gillyweed did give him some sort of fishy... reflexes.

"Stay here?" he said, his voice sounding rather odd underwater, and only then did he realize he'd opened his mouth and could drown anytime soon-

... except he didn't. The gillyweed, yes. The thought of the icky plant reminded him of his brand new gills, his hand flying over to the side of his neck, before forcing himself to pull it away. Wouldn't want to start scratching at the things that kept him breathing underwater.

*Holmesian Feline* · 05-17-2018, 04:46 AM

The gills and the whole breathing under water thing was something to get used to. Cool…but also…awkward. Septimus followed along with his fellow students, professor and the squid leading the way. The second year listening to what was being said on what they were seeing. He thought of asking questions but couldn’t bring himself to open his mouth without fear of letting water in. Surely, he didn’t want to drown or cause a ruckus in general.

Wait…THAT event?!

He’d read about Harry Potter…and the trials of the TriWizard tournament. But he hadn’t thought of getting to see the local. Merfolk…yeah, he’d stay away. Didn’t want to end up being taken hostage himself. Speaking of which, there were a few of them not too far away, almost if the mention of them had attracted them. What was it that they were handling?

itsjustjesse · 05-17-2018, 05:24 AM

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Stay where they were, right. He could totally do that, professor Wayland didn't even need to ask not to follow him. Even he wasn't that foolishly curious to swim over to some possibly irritated merpeople. Even though he'd spotted the hippocampus, and he'd always wanted to see one up close, so bad... but no, he needed to refrain himself. Especially since he was so unfamiliar with being underwater, scared of the depths of it, and all.

But was that... Beth? Heading right towards the merpeople?!

Before the Slytherin could get too far, he'd taken hold of her arm to hold her back. He'd never even realized that he'd somehow propelled himself through the water - maybe professor Wayland was right and the gillyweed did give him some sort of fishy... reflexes.

"Stay here?" he said, his voice sounding rather odd underwater, and only then did he realize he'd opened his mouth and could drown anytime soon-

... except he didn't. The gillyweed, yes. The thought of the icky plant reminded him of his brand new gills, his hand flying over to the side of his neck, before forcing himself to pull it away. Wouldn't want to start scratching at the things that kept him breathing underwater.

Beth wasn’t ignoring anyone’s advice, really. The little first year had only made it a little way away from the group when she heard Vivian’s voice not too close, well…clearly Vivian was meant to be headgirl. ”Of course, Miss Vivian” Beth sighed – sighing underwater was a feat. The bubbles the weird sound – and that feeling of the expunged air and carbondioxide leaving from her gills and not her mouth. Still, Beth liked Jessa’s question about exploring.

That was just what she was doing…just, from a little bit closer. She wasn’t even pushing that far away from the group – she was just…merpeople were amazing and she wasn’t half as close as Derf had made it…she was, after all on the outskirts of their little school of humnas – really, she could just turn around now if she wanted to – but she didn’t want to. She wanted to watch, to see – this was amazing.

Beth turned of course when she felt something – a gush of water moving closer to her and then…she watched as Professor Wayland swam over to help them and…right, that feeling. It was a hand on her wrist. Daniel she sighed, he probably was doing this for Quinn’s sake…Quinn wouldn’t be happy – and he was her friend too but that was beside the point. ”oh…come on its an adventure…don’t you want an adventure?” she asked her eyes wide with excitement again…then she watched him nervously checking his gills. ”nice gills,” the blonde hadn’t really looked at her own but now, now she wanted to touch the gills.

With a slightly webbed hand the slytherin girl reached forward and tapped her finger onto his gill – so weird. ”they’re…kind of slimy and rigid,” her eyebrows were furrowed as she glanced over to Quinn and then at Ewan, ”have you guys touched the gills?....they feel so weird” her eyebrows still somewhat knitted together with curiosity when she pulled her hand back.

**The Narrator** · 05-17-2018, 05:27 AM

Swimming behind Professor Wayland and Bart the squid, your eyes are suddenly caught by something lusciously green and tall looming in the distance. To take a closer look you have to stray away from the companion group, and break the rules to swim in the opposite direction to explore the very green and tall seaweed underwater forest, are you daring enough to do that?

Ginevra · 05-17-2018, 05:37 AM

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Swimming behind Professor Wayland and Bart the squid, your eyes are suddenly caught by something lusciously green and tall looming in the distance. To take a closer look you have to stray away from the companion group, and break the rules to swim in the opposite direction to explore the very green and tall seaweed underwater forest, are you daring enough to do that?

Daisy was distracted by a tall, green presence and she would be lying if she said her curiosity wasn't peaked. However, she wasn't a rule-breaker and so she stayed with the group. Every now and again, she would try to work out what it was. Could it be the Hippocampus that she had heard being mentioned a few moments ago?

sweetpinkpixie · 05-17-2018, 05:40 AM

Derf was in the ZONE and on cloud 9 right now - an ironic term considering he was far from the sky or any clouds at the moment but not the point. Thus far his search around the base of where the Champions' people had been was proving fruitless - though he really was not surprised. So it was, with his wand still out and that rock now discarded and put back where he had found it, that Derf continued to swim and explore the area all while trying to keep Bartholomew Henry and the group at large in his peripherals.

But this was HIS adventure. The one he had been DREAMING about since he was a first year, maybe earlier while in anticipation of his Hogwarts letter, and he was NOT about to let this chance go to waste. You know?

Not that he was even aware WHERE he was swimming at the moment. Oops.

So the fifth year kept swimming until he came upon the striking green wall of seaweed. Aquatic plants were somewhat in his wheelhouse, despite his aversion to Herbology, and dad and mum had taught him plenty about them over the years. There was a loophole in his reasoning as to why these plants were fine but others not - namely that there were no flesh eating shrubs that lived beneath the surface of the water.

"Hmmm...Nereocystis luetkeana? Himanthalia elongata?" he questioned as he reached out to touch one of the leaves and stalks.

Ginevra · 05-17-2018, 05:57 AM

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Derf was in the ZONE and on cloud 9 right now - an ironic term considering he was far from the sky or any clouds at the moment but not the point. Thus far his search around the base of where the Champions' people had been was proving fruitless - though he really was not surprised. So it was, with his wand still out and that rock now discarded and put back where he had found it, that Derf continued to swim and explore the area all while trying to keep Bartholomew Henry and the group at large in his peripherals.

But this was HIS adventure. The one he had been DREAMING about since he was a first year, maybe earlier while in anticipation of his Hogwarts letter, and he was NOT about to let this chance go to waste. You know?

Not that he was even aware WHERE he was swimming at the moment. Oops.

So the fifth year kept swimming until he came upon the striking green wall of seaweed. Aquatic plants were somewhat in his wheelhouse, despite his aversion to Herbology, and dad and mum had taught him plenty about them over the years. There was a loophole in his reasoning as to why these plants were fine but others not - namely that there were no flesh eating shrubs that lived beneath the surface of the water.

"Hmmm...Nereocystis luetkeana? Himanthalia elongata?" he questioned as he reached out to touch one of the leaves and stalks.

Daisy looked around at her group and noticed that a student was absent. She directed the question to mainly Bartholomew Henry but she was, of course, asking the other students when she said, "Has anyone seen Derf? I am certain that Professor Wayland would tell him to join the group."

SilverTiger · 05-17-2018, 06:30 AM

All the information about the long ago Triwizard Tournament was interesting, but it hadn’t taken much to tear Stasya’s attention from Bartholomew Henry and his lecture. Besides, she knew the stories. It wasn’t coincidence that her pets had names from those stories, after all, even if Raisa and Lyuba didn’t. She hadn’t named either the cat or the crup. There was too much that was intriguing about being inside the lake, not in the least of which had been the possibility of trying out the Mermish she’d been learning. In fact, she wondered why their Mermish instructor hadn’t thought of this for a lesson. Even if she was fully aware that real merpeople weren’t like the fairy tales depicted them. Or, maybe they were. The real story of the little mermaid was awfully vicious, really.

But anyway, the sight of the merpeople village, and the actual merpeople near it had caught the blonde’s attention nearly at the same time as the baby snake had started swimming that direction, followed by Derf and then Professor Wayland. She’d turned her own pathway that directon as well, although she’d stayed a little ways off. Watching the hippocampus with the merpeople, mostly, and listening the best she could to the professor’s agreement with one or the other. Either way, she was awfully curious about what the merpeople had wanted with the creature. “Professor Wayland, is the hippocampus going to be okay?,” she asked, voice slightly muffled by the bubble keeping her breathing.

Plus, she’d noticed the greenish shadow behind them, and turned to swim after Derf as he’d gone to investigate. On the one hand, she figured she could argue that she’d gone to bring him back to the group, but on the other, she was curious too. “You know about seaweed?,” she asked him as she came alongside where he was examining the leaves outstretching a hand to do the same.

Maybe there were more creatures hidden in there. Kind of like when she’d met the unicorns in the forest.

DuckyLinJi · 05-17-2018, 08:49 AM

Either the Professor had not seen him waving for attention or he was completely ignored. Not that it mattered anymore because as he looked back around , he saw that one of the older students, though he could not figure out who through the murky water, had gone after Beth.

Good. It wasn't his problem anymore.

He turned back around and by doing so he saw something behind both the professor and Giant Squid. It looked like normal seaweed to him but bigger and more luscious green. On one hand he wanted to stay as close as possible to the safety of the group. Because everyone knew that there was safety in Numbers.

But despite being anxious about being in the Lake , he was still a curious Ravenclaw and he was itching to get closer to look. He saw Derf swimming towards it and soon after Stasya did as well. This eased his nervousness a little bit. There were now two Prefects there which meant that IF something happened, he'd be in good hands. HA

Besides, nothing bad had happened so far and maybe his mind was just anxious because he kept thinking about what had happened at Dufftown last year. And what were the chances of something bad happening again so soon?

With a look around, Dorian tried to find Rylee but it was difficult to make out where she was before he swam in the direction of the underwater forest. Maybe he could break a bit and put it in his swimsuit. There should be some use for them as a potion ingrediënt perhaps.

debpetrisor · 05-17-2018, 09:06 AM

An adventure?!

He firmly shook his head, a worried look etched on his face. "Not here, please." He was all for adventures where he could feel something solid underneath his feet, could breathe using his own lungs, and wasn't near merpeople. No adventures for him, thank you very much. Also, professor Wayland's offer for swimming lessons sounded great all of a sudden - maybe if he were confident enough with swimming and could use a bubble-head charm instead of the disturbing gillyweed, he might be up for underwater adventures, too.

... but his train of thought had been cut off by Beth touching his gills.

"What are you-errr-no, I haven't-" Even underwater, he could feel his cheeks burn. "I don't really want to-to touch them." He couldn't wait for the effect of the gillyweed to wear off, but preferably after he surfaced the water. Speaking of which, just how long did they have left?

... at least he hoped Beth would be occupied with examining his gills and ignore the shiny thing. The one they shouldn't go explore as it was unidentifiable and far from their group.

RachieRu · 05-17-2018, 09:31 AM

Harriet was pretty glad when Professor Wayland told them all to stay there and went to help the merpeople himself. Whilst she wouldn't have been against helping, she didn't want to get hurt, and she'd heard merpeople could be unpredictable. So she was pretty happy to explore from over here. She did decide though, that she should try and keep an eye on everyone. She was a prefect after all. And she didn't want any of her baby puffs, or any one really, getting hurt. So she'd explore a little, and keep an eye. If she was at all honest it kind of all looked the same to her anyway. But they'd seen some cool creatures so that was cool. Maybe she'd draw some merpeople when she was back in her common room.

Wait. What? What was Derf doing? Hadn't he just heard the professor saying they needed to stay as pack. Hattie rolled her eyes. There was exploring, and then there was just defying the rules. How did he even know if it was safe? And now the younger students were trying to go over there too. Luckily she was by Dorian so the seventh year placed her weirdly webbed hand on his shoulder to hold him back. "Stay here. It could be dangerous over there...." She said, her voice a little weird cause of them being under water.

It was true. Who knew what was hiding in that weird shiny stuff? They would all be safer over here. And that was what Hattie intended to do. Keep the younger students safe.

DaniDiNardo · 05-17-2018, 10:27 AM

"No it's not." She replied plainly, her expression a stoic one as she took in the Professor. This wasn't the time for independent exploring, not if he kept insisting they STAY with the group. Merlin's beard, what if she didn't wanna see what the group was seeing? If she wanted to go see something that wasn't in the path of where they were heading?

See that? The kids trying to see the merpeople, they were already being discouraged. This was only independent exploration if you independently wanted to follow the group.

She did not.

What was the point of being down in the lake if they couldn't REALLY stretch their horizons? Like, look at the lush green forest-like structure down there. Didn't see Wayland encouraging them to check that out. No. Him and old Bart were too busy making sure they learned only what they already new.

Not at all for that idea, Jessa followed the few of her club mates who'd also opted to stray. The fact it was practically going into the opposite direction didn't bother her in the slightest.

Unlike derf, it wasn't the plants that held her interest, but the things that could potentially live in it. Jessa drew her wand, cutting away at a few samples and pocketing them before nudging the vegetation out of the way cautiously and moving into it.

Ginevra · 05-17-2018, 11:27 AM

It seemed that quite a few students were going to go exploring. Daisy rolled her eyes and watched them go off on their little adventure. It wasn't going to risk her life or lose house points. "On your heads, be it." Daisy thought.

sweetpinkpixie · 05-17-2018, 02:08 PM

Derf quickly felt a bit silly thinking up some salt water options while identifying some salt water specific plants in his initial analysis. He reckoned that the saline levels in the Black Lake were not nearly high enough for some...though he had never tested those himself. But now he was curious about how that effected the various creatures that seemingly came and went about the lake, you know?

Something else he now wanted to ask Bartholomew Henry who...oh wow...when had he strayed so far from the group?

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Plus, she’d noticed the greenish shadow behind them, and turned to swim after Derf as he’d gone to investigate. On the one hand, she figured she could argue that she’d gone to bring him back to the group, but on the other, she was curious too. “You know about seaweed?,” she asked him as she came alongside where he was examining the leaves outstretching a hand to do the same.

Maybe there were more creatures hidden in there. Kind of like when she’d met the unicorns in the forest.

Though his concerns were soon distracted by the appearance of Stasya and her question. "Some stuff," he nodded with a bit of an impish grin. "Dad and mum are both herbologists...but dad specializes in aquatic plants and has sorta been teaching me thing since I was little. Cause, you know, I would catch frogs and turtles and tadpoles and such...and they need all that in tanks, so he would teach me a thing or do while I recreated their habitats in tanks...or the bathtub." He paused a moment to look over at her and grin. "But, I reckon given how vibrant this green is...there's just gotta be creatures dwelling in here, you know? I mean...seaweed already is nutrient dense than any land vegetable...and this stuff is SUPER vibrant so gotta be extra dense."

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Unlike derf, it wasn't the plants that held her interest, but the things that could potentially live in it. Jessa drew her wand, cutting away at a few samples and pocketing them before nudging the vegetation out of the way cautiously and moving into it.

........and it seemed like Jessa was already on her way in and Derf's LIFE suddenly flashed before his eyes when he saw her grab a sample. BECAUSE HE KNEW WHAT SHE HAD DONE TO THOSE RATS SEVERAL TERMS AGO AND IF SHE FOUND SOMETHING IN THIS AQUATIC PLANT FOREST WHO KNEW WHAT IN SCAMANDER'S SUITCASE SHE WOULD DO TO THEM!

So it was that Derf, without even thinking twice, swam after Jessa. For the creatures dwelling within's sake, yeah?

*Kolyander* · 05-17-2018, 04:39 PM

Rylee couldn't quite pull her gaze away from the Merpeople even as Lydia swam up alongside her. "Are they mad?" That was a good question. She didn't think so. Especially not since she had wanted to swim after both Beth and Derf towards the little village and explore as well. Only she hadn't. "No, simply curious." Her own voice no doubt sounding strange and muffled by the water as she spoke.

Professor Wayland put a quick stop to anyone approaching the Merpeople but told them they could explore. She supposed she could handle that. Where was Derf and Stasya going... and Dorian? She could barely see him swimming off ahead of her towards some weird greenish shadow. If they were going so was she! Rylee didn't really think about it before following them, Dorian was a trusted partner from last term and both Derf and Stasya were Prefects. Plus the greenish glow was really really pretty...

aRogueOne · 05-17-2018, 07:14 PM

Watching closely now, he couldn’t help but admire Professor Wayland as he swam over to the merpeople. Feeling slightly relieved now, he focused on the students around him. Not having realised that he’d swam away slightly, he quickly used his new swimming ability to move to the group. Catching the end of Beth’s words now, “Adventure? What do you have in mind?”.

Briefly, he couldn’t help but feel amused at Daniel’s unwillingness to join in with her plans. The boy was his friend but still, he needed to get over his aversion to water and the swimming lessons would do him a lot of good in this endeavour. With a loud snort now as Beth started prodding Daniels gills, he swam a little closer to them.

“No, I haven’t actually”, his hands wandering to his own gills now. “Ugh...this. is. Strange.”, was all he could say, bubbles shooting from his mouth now.

Still running his hands over his newly acquired gills, Ewan’s eyes were suddenly drawn towards something. Was it seaweed? Not quite sure, he squinted, focusing now. “Hey, Beth, Daniel...What’s that?”. Tapping them both now, he pointed towards it.

“It’s seaweed”, the slight confusion on his face turning to one of realisation. Turning back now, his face filled with excitement, “Want to go check it out?”, his voice taking on a more relaxed tone as he spotted some of the older children (Derf, Stasya, Jessa, Dorian and Rylee) swimming towards it. Pulling his wand out from his holster, he gestured towards the seaweed, “You guys coming with?”.

Swimming off, he headed towards it, driven by curiosity. Getting closer now, he couldn’t help but notice how it shimmered, despite being so far below sea level. Getting closer, he stopped briefly, his wand clasped in his hand tight. Slowly, he edged closer, his fellow students still around him examining it. Tentatively, he moved his wand towards it. Letting it flop over his wand now, he leant closer to examine it, his eyes shimmering with curiosity. He really didn’t know much about the properties of seaweed. Well, at least not this one. After all, it could have been some type of magical super seaweed or something.

VRSCIKA · 05-17-2018, 08:11 PM

And...Eria yet again was reminded of why she couldn't stand first years or Hufflepuffs...Some went where the professor said not to, others were off to look at shiny things and weeds of the sea...the fifth year was far from impressed. This was why she had a bet with herself as to who would survive until graduation.

She was staying within earshot of her little blonde antagonist (Beth), to make sure she didn't join in the folly that was exploring potential danger without the safety net that was the big beautiful creature named Bartholomew Henry...

At least the lion child (Daniel) had enough of a brain to realize that adventuring in a lake full of merpeople, away from the large protective squid was, in fact, an entirely awful idea. Yes, she did think that one actually stood a chance of surviving long enough to graduate intact.

However...the one toddler her mini snake hung around seemed particularly stupid...wasn't it a ravenclaw? (Ewan) How sad, he'd been placed in absolutely the wrong house. You were meant to have brains in that house toddler...perhaps he'd missed the memo? Maybe the sorting hat had fire whiskey before the childs induction? He definitely was not surviving until graduation...and if baby snake followed him and got hurt she'd make sure he wasn't surviving to second year personally.

It wasn't like she was being overly protective...she was keeping an eye on her house because they were obviously the best and should win the house cup. If baby snake perished they were a man down. That was that. Her story, she was sticking to it.

itsjustjesse · 05-17-2018, 08:32 PM

Yes, adventure…sail the world on a boat adventure – any adventure would do really. Right now prodding Daniel’s gills was an adventure in a way…like one of those choose your own adventure stories she had stumbled upon as a kid…heh, this was fun.

was that a blush? was SHE making him blush? Unheard of…obviously the gill prodding was awkward…did they smell? Could she sniff underwater – honestly she didn’t want to test that new found gillyweed feature out. ”oh come on you can touch my gill” she told him as she pointed at her own, ”its only fair” and then Ewan was there…what?

”I…wouldn’t go into the seaweed Grindylows could be in there” she told him as she abandoned the exploration of the gills for a moment. ”don’t get eaten” well, that wasn’t the nicest thing to say but it was truthful. She didn’t want to die just yet, mermaids could be reasoned with grindylows couldn’t.

DuckyLinJi · 05-17-2018, 08:53 PM

The webbed hand of Harriet on his shoulder was the cause of Dorian's shout of shock. Bubbles started to form around his head as he turned around, clumsely trying to reach for his wand in the holster. But when he saw that it wasn't some underwater creature but just one of the other students he stopped reaching for his wand.

Dorian looked back behind him where Derf and Stasya were and saw some others joining them before he looked back at Harriet and sighed. Which did not work underwater , he noticed. Instead, he nodded his head. She was a Prefect as well and if she said that it could be dangerous, he would listen to her.

He stayed back from the luscious green seaweed with the female Hufflepuff Prefect and saw Jessa cutting some seaweed before pocketing it. Maybe he could ask for some when they were back on land?

Nyx · 05-18-2018, 12:32 AM

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Yes, adventure…sail the world on a boat adventure – any adventure would do really. Right now prodding Daniel’s gills was an adventure in a way…like one of those choose your own adventure stories she had stumbled upon as a kid…heh, this was fun.

was that a blush? was SHE making him blush? Unheard of…obviously the gill prodding was awkward…did they smell? Could she sniff underwater – honestly she didn’t want to test that new found gillyweed feature out. ”oh come on you can touch my gill” she told him as she pointed at her own, ”its only fair” and then Ewan was there…what?

”I…wouldn’t go into the seaweed Grindylows could be in there” she told him as she abandoned the exploration of the gills for a moment. ”don’t get eaten” well, that wasn’t the nicest thing to say but it was truthful. She didn’t want to die just yet, mermaids could be reasoned with grindylows couldn’t.

Lydia watched as Rylee swam off toward the strange seaweed that had captured everyone's attention. Merlin's beard, where was the professor when you needed him? He'd gone swimming after the merpeople and their beautiful hippocampus. Lydia glanced at the beautiful creature again with some longing. It really was an amazing creature. She wished she could pet it.

Lydia saw Beth floating near a young boy she hadn't yet met. She swam in their direction, her fins kicking hard.

"Hi Beth," she said, her voice sounding strange underwater. What was even stranger was feeling the exhalation over her gills. Weird.

Turning to the boy, she introduced herself. He looked pretty anxious. She couldn't blame him. What were those students thinking swimming off after that strange seaweed? They were probably all about to be eaten. Lydia heard Beth mention grindylows. She didn't know exactly what those were, but they sounded unpleasant.

"I'd rather go talk to those merpeople than see what's in that seaweed," said Lydia. "What do you guys think is in there, anyway?"

Lydia stared off after the students who had swam toward the seaweed. She recognized a few of them like Rylee and Ewan, and of course that older boy who'd actually spoken mermish had been the first to swim away. Lydia liked Rylee and Ewan. She really hoped they weren't going to get eaten.

Lissy Longbottom · 05-18-2018, 03:25 AM

Nettie grinned as Derf explained his background in Mermish, she would definitely have to take him up on that because that sounded awesome, but she didn't get a chance to tell him that. Instead, something caught her eye off in the distance. There was...shimmering seaweed off in the distance. It seemed off...something about it was calling out to her.

She watched as Derf swam off towards it, and with a small shrug, decided she was going too. She HAD said to herself she was sticking with him! Plus, she was curious. She knew they weren't supposed to, but a small group was forming, so she wasn't the only one who had seen the seaweed and seen that it was a bit weird.

Here goes nothing!

Callie · 05-18-2018, 03:57 AM

Quinn swam over to Beth, but still kept a slight distance from the group, watching them in her appraising way. She was particularly watching Daniel around Beth with interest. Perhaps he was starting to crush on Beth more than he apparently was crushing on her herself, according to Beth at least.

Oh and there was Lydia now too. Quinn gave her a slight nod, but still said nothing. Yes, she could talk like the others, but was still rather disinclined to do so.

And no, Beth. Quinn wasn't going to voluntarily touch anyone she wasn't super close or comfortable with, and as her best friend, Beth would know this. That desire for personal space and avoiding physical contact with other people was partially why she was floating a slight distance away from everyone.

Quinn watched silently as a group of others swam their way to seaweed. Why? It was just seaweed. The merpeople were much more fascinating to just watch than swimming in a forest of kelp. Briefly Quinn wondered if they could sense her wand had a core of a mermaid's hair. Freely given according to family lore to her grandmother and passed onto her as the core only seemed to want to respond to her after her grandmother died. It was half of her dual cores; the other half being a veela hair from a veela friend of Beth's family that seemed rather impressed by Beth and her over summer.

But, would the merpeople sense it?

Devina Wellheart · 05-18-2018, 04:17 AM

Reese had taken his time in following along as he wanted to take in as much of his surroundings as he could. He thought the tint of the water around him was neat.. An obvious reflection of the sunlight off the seaweed and other aquatic vegetation. Slowly, slowly he went though easily keeping up with the main body of the group of his fellow school mates that were swimming nearby and all over the place in small groups or individually.

He steered clear of the merpeople.. He'd read enough to know that they weren't at all personable from a book he'd read in his spare time. If only muggles knew what they truly looked like.. So.. He trailed along behind everyone..

Birchwoodmom · 05-18-2018, 04:51 AM

What in Merlin's beard where these student doing? The idea of going deeper into the water, and away from where the professor said it was safe to be, was appalling. There was a zero percent possibility of her going out there. That was unless one of them started yelling for help. If that were to happen, she would not only be avoiding the area, but bolting herself out of that lake faster than a Thunderbolt 6000.

Keeping one eye on the area the professor had gone of too and one eye on the area the naughty students had gone of to, Emmalyn stayed just deep enough in the lake to be considered part of the class, but her mounting anxiety was soon to get the better of her.

itsjustjesse · 05-18-2018, 05:18 AM

Beth’s eyes tracked over toward Lydia as she swam over and started talking. The wrist of her hand that wasn’t investigating the gills was still playing captive…excuse me Mr. Yoon I need my hand back she thought her eyebrows knitting together. As she turned her head and listened to Lydia.

”Hey Lyd” she smiled and of course, when she turned her head she spotted ”this…is um…Daniel Yoon – Daniel this is my roommate Lydia Beckett – she’s fun” Beth smiled, and then let her eyes casually flick over to Reese and Quinn…they weren’t far off from each other and clearly, the blonde needed some help to make #armgate less awkward.

”oh…probably more Hippocampi…or grindylow” Beth shrugged, ”who knows…maybe Bart has a secret family in there that he’s raising – they could all get themselves inked” she grinned and flicked her eyes back at Quinn. ”Quinn…Reese c’mere – ” she grinned and eyed her friends in that commanding way she knew.

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