fandomhigh | Care for Magical Creatures; Friday, Period 2 [ 01/30 ].

"Good morning, students!" As usual, they were meeting in the classroom, with all the comfortable pillows that would do much better than desks and Minsc was greeting them all jovially with Boo close at hand. "Welcome back to class! Remember how last class we discussed spotting out a regular old animal from a person transformed into an animal? If not, well, I sure hope that was quite a blow causing you to forget it! Today, we are going to talk about making a very important checklist to see if our friends are transformed! For example:

"If I were to make a checklist for whether or not a human is actually Boo, it might include things like: Is he eating everything in sight? Is he twitching his nose as if he would usually have whiskers? Does he have a tendency to burrow in crinkly things?"

"And, also for example, if Boo were to make a list for me," he chuckled, "which is a very big if since Boo cannot write or speak languages our petty brain can comprehend, he would include: Are there any noticeable purple markings by his eyes? Telltale scars? What happens when I put him by this gnoll, which is dirty and awful and must be immediately vanquished? Things like that!"

"I'd like you each to get together with someone else in class and discuss the sorts of things they someone would put on a list about you! There is an uneven number, so groups of two or three are both okay! And your HOMEWORK will include making lists for your friends! You can never be too prepared! Awareness is key! And then, when your friends are turned into animals, you will know it is them and not accidentally fry up that rabbit for dinner or slay that wee dragon thinking yourself in harm's way!"

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Merlin just smirked and kept writing.

Arthur used the great deep wells of his ability as a hunter and a warrior to peek stealthily over at what Merlin was writing.

Not that he cared.

Merlin had been writing the various odd scars the idiot had acquired since his time serving him. but now he was pulling the paper close to his chest. "That curious?"

"Not at all," he said, "Merely gathering evidence. 'Writes in completely illegible chickenscratch'."

Arthur was in his seat. He had never looked anywhere.

"My writing is perfectly fine!" Merlin objected, giving him a look for that.

"Of course it is," Arthur said, dismissively.

"'Is an utter prat.'" Served him right.

Arthur sighed, then rolled his eyes. "One of these days, Merlin."

Merlin smiled at that, offering over his list like a good servant ought to. "Who knows, this may come in handy."

"You do have a knack for getting into trouble," Arthur grunted. Because he didn't. At all.

He took the list and scanned it. His own, beyond the insults, mostly involved notes about bodytype and mannerisms as befitting a hunter (with the occasional note as to Merlin's incompetence in various areas) but he was yet to be inclined to share it.

Maybe in a minute.

"Of course I do." Merlin was, if nothing else, incredibly indulgent.

"I'm glad you recognize it," Arthur replied, flattening out Merlin's paper so he could... read the boy's illegible chickenscratch. "We'll have to keep these."

Not everyone had tutors since they could walk.

And it worked just fine for him! Gaius could read it. Sometimes.

"Perhaps a word that only we know to show it's us?"

"Because when I turn into an animal, the first thing I'll do is tell you that I am with the tongue I no longer have," he said, shooting him a look. "We'd need a signal. If you've got it in you to remember it."

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