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Outdoor Adventure Time!, part 2, Tuesday, period 1

The class met at Portalocity again today. Eliot looked particularly thrilled this time around, which was a little bit odd; he was usually the calm, zen-like one in this class, not the one who looked like they were going to bounce out of their shoes.

Parker, on the other hand, looked a bit grumpy. “This is more Eliot’s thing. I’m staying at the petting zoo.” Pout.

"I promise it's still fun and exciting," Eliot said. He waved the class to follow and led them through the portal, into a large, sunny pasture. A barn stood at one end, with loads of little padlocks and pens arranged around it, filled with goats and sheep, rabbits, some piglets, a big shaggy cow, and even a llama. That'd be the petting zoo Parker was talking about. On the other end, the one Eliot was headed for, an older man was standing by the gate of a big outdoor riding ring, where several horses of various sizes and colors were tied. "This here is my friend Willie," Eliot introduced. "He trains race horses. And today, you're all gonna get to be jockeys."

“Horses aren’t as scary as I thought.” Parker’s expression was more like a mule’s. “But that isn’t saying much. I’ll be over here. Petting the crias. And feeding them stuff.” Yup. You’re not getting her any closer than that.

"Any of y'all feel the same as Parker, there's no shame. Go have fun with the goats and things." Willie smiled at the kids. "The rest of ya come on over and Eliot and I'll give you a run down on the horses. This is actually a general rescue farm, so we've got horses trained for racing, rodeo, dressage, and simple pleasure riding. Choose your poison."

"Not literally," Eliot promised, mostly talking to Parker. "Horses aren't poisonous."

“Just mean,” Parker said mutinously. “And huge. And sometimes they’ve been teased, and they’re even more mean.”

"This isn't a breeding facility," Willie said, giving her a confused look. "None of them've been teased."

"Just -- let her go pet the crias," Eliot said. "Everyone else, let's get riding!"

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Pat the bunny! Or the cria. Or feed the piglets. Or try to milk a cow.

Well, no, the cows don’t want that, but you can watch someone else do it.

Edward stopped by the zoo first - and immediately found himself scowling at the sheep.

His mood now dampened, he turned around to go find those horses.

"Why are you glaring at the lambs?" Parker wondered, reaching over to feed one.

"Am I now?" Edward said.

Yes. Yes, you were.

Parker is looking at you Askance, Edward. Also, Askew. "Yeeeees."

Edward shot her a wry smile.

"My parents raise sheep," he clarified. "That's all."

"Oh." Parker blinked, and tilted her head. "Not a fan?" Well, probably not, or he'd still be there. Raising sheep.

"It don't matter," Edward muttered, because he wasn't terribly fun when he was broody.

"It matters," Parker insisted back to him. Because please. She was in a relationship with Eliot. There was broody, when he got going. "But you don't have to talk about it. Not if you don't want." She stroked the bunny in her arms and added, "The bunnies are more fun, if you ask me."

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Horsies were like, the super coolest and all, but the petting zoo won for Alluka because she got to pet fuzzy animals.

So, she'd be here, all class, alternately petting the animals, babbling to them, and introducing her bunny to the... real bunny.

She laughed a lot when the real bunny nibbled on her stuffed bunny's feet.

"Bunnies are awesome, aren't they." No question, really. "Don't let it bite your bunny, though."

Alluka glanced up at Parker, smiled and giggled, and then obediently moved her bunny away from the real one.

"I like them lots! Will the biting hurt either bunny? I thought they were just saying hi."

"Probably not," Parker admitted. "But you don't want the bunny to nibble through the thread or accidentally swallow and eye or something. That would be bad for both of them." She reached over and picked up the softest brown bunny, fluffy and little with alert ears, and held out a radish for it to eat. "I should had brought my bunny."

Alluka watched her feed the bunny with huge eyes. The bunny was so cute!

"Okay. I won't be bad for the bunnies. Maybe your bunny can meet mine sometime?" she suggested, a bit diffidently, because Parker was a teacher and Alluka was still barely used to idea sharing with her peers. "And, and then my bunny can tell yours about these bunnies, so it'll know the same stuff."

Parker's smile was slow but very wide when it finally settled in on her face.

"I like that idea." She grinned. "Next week, maybe. I'll bring Bunny. I know he'd love that."

Alluka beamed back, relieved.

"Yay! I'll remember to bring my bunny instead of Bubbles, then, because toys like to talk a lot to each other," she said knowledgeably. She knew about toys! "If they like you, they'll talk to you too, but they're always talking if you leave them alone with each other."

At least, that was what they did in her imagination.

"Hunh. I never had more than one toy at a time when I was little. And then when I was older, I just wanted money." Parker looked considering, still petting the bunny. She fed it a piece of lettuce. "Do you want to feed the bunnies?"

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Kaylin and horses... they didn't really get along. But she wasn't particularly sure about most of these other animals either.

"You look confused." Parker tilted her head at Kaylin. "Do you guys not have farms where you're from?"

"Maybe somewhere," Kaylin said. "But not anywhere I've been. These things are... a little scary."

"Pfftt. Not like horses," Parker pointed out, holding a carrot out for one of the llamas. It sniffed at the vegetable, then daintily lipped it in small bites. "This one's a llama. And that's it's baby, hiding on the other side."

You could see four hooves beneath and behind the llama, and an outraged little bleat sounded.

"Horses and I don't get along," Kaylin said grimly. "All those teeth. And they like to step on you whenever they get a chance."

She watched the llamas skeptically. "Those look like weird horses."

"They're waaaay smaller. And lighter," Parker pointed out. "And softer." She rubbed the muzzle of the llama, and then started giggling as the cria ducked its head under its mother to bleat at Kaylin again. "They carry packs up mountains a lot, because they're such good climbers. I swear, it won't bite you or anything. Look at its eyelashes!"

"Still has big teeth," kaylin pointed out, but she might just have moved a little closer, only to take a quick step back when the baby bleated at her.

"Why is it making that noise?"

"It's probably hungry." Parker motioned to one of the zookeepers, and it came over with a bottle. "Do you want to feed it? I can do it, and you can get the idea."