[Creatures of Nature - 5th Period, 7/16]

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D met with the students in a classroom this time, directing them to tables around the room. At the head of the class, he had a great many cages, each with an animal of some type inside, all of them different.

"Good afternoon, class, and welcome to the second session of Creatures of Nature," he began. "Today's lesson will be an ongoing one, and though the workshop is meant to focus on the animals in nature - meaning those that are not domesticated and that you may not generally come into contact with - I would like to have you each take care of something in order to impress upon you how animals are to be respected and cared for in a more intimate way."

He paused, looking thoughtful. "...Hopefully not too intimate."

Clearing his throat, D began to pass out slips of paper to each student. "You are now assigned these animals until the end of this workshop. You will take them back to your room, care for them, and at the end, you will bring them back to me and we will see how you have done with them. Have fun! And if there are problems, I urge you to come to me."

[OOC: I'm braindead for class-writing, so turtle_toughguy suggested this. Yes, your character gets a pet even if you have one already. You can try to argue though, if you feel you have to.

You may assume that your pet comes with the basics - food and water (that your character will have to replenish), shelter, and a cage/enclosure of modest size. Wait for OCD is done! omg i am going to bed for a couple hours now, bye. Mod your pets, if'n you please.]

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Re: Assigned Creatures - Raphael

[turtle-toughguy.livejournal.com]

"Nah. Truth be told? I don' know much of anything about takin' care of pets." He pulled his hand out of the cage after a few strokes, not wanting to freak the poor rabbit out anymore than he had to. "Why? Have you?"

Re: Assigned Creatures - Raphael

[abhorsentobe.livejournal.com]

Sabriel nodded. "Some of the girls in the lower years keep rabbits as pets." She raised her eyebrow. "Sometimes more than actually intended."

Re: Assigned Creatures - Raphael

[turtle-toughguy.livejournal.com]

Raph smirked. "I'm guessin' the comparison 'breeding like rabbits' is appropriate, then." He looked into the cage at his own rabbit and cocked an eyebrow. "I.. ah.. wouldn't mind a hand... Y'know, if you wanna come say hi to Leo.."

No, asking for help with his bunny wasn't embarassing at all! Why do you ask?

Re: Assigned Creatures - Raphael

[abhorsentobe.livejournal.com]

"I would love to come by and say hi to Leo," Sabriel grinned, politely not noticing any kind of possible turtle-y embarrassment. She patted PJ's tank again. "Would you mind trying to help me find out what to do with PJ? I don't want to accidentally kill him by feeding him the wrong thing."

Re: Assigned Creatures - Raphael

[turtle-toughguy.livejournal.com]

Raph nodded and shrugged. Seemed like a fair trade to him (and he was pretty relieved not to have his embarassment pointed out. Points for Sabriel).

"I'll prob'ly ask my brother to look stuff up for me. I can have him look up info on Tarantulas too. He's pretty quick with a computer, so it shouldn't take too long... I don't think, anyway. You could always come back with me, or just lemme know where I should leave the information for ya."

Re: Assigned Creatures - Raphael

[abhorsentobe.livejournal.com]

It was Sabriel's turn to look a little embarrassed. "I am not quite ready for computers yet. They seem very complicated. I was just going to see if the library had any books..."

Re: Assigned Creatures - Raphael

[turtle-toughguy.livejournal.com]

Raph grinned and shrugged, not seeming to find that a problem.

"Don't worry. I don't really do computers either. Too much to fuss around with. I just say 'Donnie, look this up' and he does the thing that makes the computer go... If he's feelin' gracious, anyway, and maybe if I say 'please'. If he won't help us we'll hit the books together. How's that?"

Re: Assigned Creatures - Raphael

[abhorsentobe.livejournal.com]

Sabriel thought about it, then nodded, smiling again. "If I don't have to do anything with the computer, it sounds good. Oh, and I'm in room 219. If you need to leave me a message or something," she added, once she realized she was inviting a man to her room.

A man turtle, yes, but still a man.

Her teachers at Wyverley would definitely not approve.

Re: Assigned Creatures - Raphael

[turtle-toughguy.livejournal.com]

He nodded, trying to commit 219 to memory for later. "Sure thing. easy enough. I can probably get him to print somethin' out for ya so you'll have something solid t'look at, and not just some scratchy notes written out by him, or worse me."

He was going to have to remember to talk nicely to Donnie, possibly to the point of even saying please and thank you. If he could manage not to argue with his brother it'd probably make things easier.

Re: Assigned Creatures - Raphael

[abhorsentobe.livejournal.com]

Sabriel snickered and nodded back. "That sounds great, yes." She gave him a bright grin. "I'll let you get to know Leo now."

Re: Assigned Creatures - Raphael

[turtle-toughguy.livejournal.com]

Raph nodded and rubbed the back of hi sneck. "Yeah..." He looked at the bunny incredulously. "I'll just.. get to know Leo."

He waved vaguely as he tried to figure how how best to go about pulling the bunny from his cage... Or if that was even wise.

If all else failed, he'd just ask Sabriel when he took her the papers.