fandomhigh | Care for Magical Creatures; Friday, Period 2 [ 01/09 ].

When the students arrived for their class today, they'd find themselves in just a regular old classroom. But not for long.

"Good morning, younglings!" Minsc, the very large fellow with the scars and the armour and the tattoos and...the hamster...greeted the students boisterously, pounding a fist down on the large desk in front of the blackboard. "Welcome to Care for Magical Creatures! I am your teacher, Minsc, and this is my companion, Boo! In a moment, we shall get started, but at the moment, there is something very important we must do first! These desks! They are evil! They are restrictive! Up! Up out of the desk and quickly, children, we must destroy them entirely and make some proper space in this room!"

"Up, up!" Minsc waved his arms to encourage his students to his feet and, with a great, guttural sort of battlecry, he lifted his foot and kicked it straight into one of the desks. It went flying from the impressive blow, toward the front of the room, smashing into a thousand pieces against the blackboard and settling in a small pile of broken legs and pieces.

"Well? What are you waiting for? Vanquish these desks!"

[[ ~~please wait for~~ the OCD is ready for battle! ]]

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And, yes, Minsc had noted the large wolf with great interest the moment he and Lady Blysse had entered the room. "He is your companion?" he guessed, taking carefully into consideration the subtly feral details about this girl.

"We is pack," she nodded, pleased that he hadn't assumed he was a pet. Such assumptions didn't bother her as they once did, but she still preferred when people didn't make them.

Well, when a man ran around talking to a hamster all day...

"You've been in a pack together for a while, Lady Blysse?"

"I growed up wolf," she shrugged. "Am not knowing how many turnings of seasons, exactly. Wolf is not having much use for counting these."

Minsc had to chuckle a little at that. "No, I can't imagine they do; not unless it directly correlates to the migration of food sources, right? But that's good! A strong correlation to a particular animal can lead to some strong transformation, and, if not that, to some of the best rangers and druids ever made."

Both Firekeeper and Blind Seer visibly bristled at that. "Transformation is not a good thing, where I am being from," she admitted.

Which caused Minsc to tilt his head in interest. Of course, such a thing was not entirely unheard of, but it intrigued him all the same. Especially since it meant a girl who thought poorly of transformations beyond annoyingly, randomly becoming an animal like the rest of her peers would be taking a class on just that topic. "Why not?"

Firekeeper bit her lip, trying to think of just how much information to give. Maybe if she didn't mention the maimalodalu specifically...

"There is being those, many seasons ago, who use sorcery. They looked at the cousins of my people, the Wise Beasts, and they was thinking, these shapes is strong, and fast, and they is wanting them for their own. So... they use their sorcery to steal shapes of yarimaimalom, Wise Beasts. Only, yarimaimalom is not liking this much. Is not a good thing, having your body stolen by one who want to use it for wicked things. So, they was fighting back. And they winned, but not completely. Still the memory of what they lost burns," she said darkly, concluding what was for her an uncharacteristically long speech.

Minsc listened, very carefully, nodding gravely when Lady Blysse finished. He certainly could see why that would make transformation a very bad thing in one's mind, and he considered carefully.

"Such old scars," he said, "never really heal. But anything that can be used for wicked, can also be used for goodness. And vice versa, though I much prefer the goodness."

"Am not really knowing any- from my world- who is using sorcery for goodness," she said. "A few with small gifts that is doing good things, but any who can do more," she shrugged. "Is using them for wicked things."

There was nothing like hearing that things such as that were happening in other worlds that made Minsc wish he hadn't quit adventuring. It sounded like Lady Blysse's world could use a serious dose of buttkicking for goodness.

"Lady Blysse," he said after a moment, "this might sound crazy," coming from the guy who told them not just ten minutes ago to destroy school property, "but how would you feel about being a teacher's assistant for this class? I feel your very different perspectives could lend you as a very valuable helper."

Firekeeper tilted her head, considering.

You should ask him if the position would require writing, Blind Seer commented. She scowled at him, but admitted he had a point.

"Would I be needing to know how to write to be this teacher's assistant?" she asked. "Because I am not knowing how. Yet."

Minsc shook his head. "No. Just helping if I need some extra hands or maybe running class should Boo or I be unable to run it. Sir Jan was my teacher's assistant last semester, and writing was a bit out of the question for him and he did fine."

Firekeeper looked wistful for a moment at the reminder of her friend, but then smiled. "Then, I is accepting."

Minsc nodded, smiling back. "And I am grateful. Thanks, Lady Blysse. I hope maybe I can change your mind a little about transforming, but I'll understand if I can't."

She shrugged. "My mind can be changed, if the reason is being good enough," she said.

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