05-20-2019, 12:40 PM
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| Mooncalf
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Text Cut: Bowtruckles Quote:
Originally Posted by BOWTRUCKLES!  Under normal circumstances, perhaps this family of bowtruckles could have reacted differently. Particularly when it came to the likes of the two Gryffindors [Krel Ansell & Kolyander]. But not today. Not this time. Sitting still only made them easier targets and a few became tangled in the girl's red hair while one made an attempt to shimmy up the boy's shirt to scratch him up there.
The laughter battle cries of another [lazykitty], drew a few bowtruckles away from the bumps on a log to flank this one and launch in assault. The sound so menacing to their fragile ears.
No human was left untouched. A boy [2111jen] had one attempting to climb up his trouser leg. One small bowtruckle, no more than a toddler by human standards, struggled with an acorn to pelt at another boy [Felixir]. Another, carefully timing itself, dropped down from the branches of a tree upon another girl [Fireheart]. One particularly perturbed bowtruckle took personal offense to another boy [emjay] pocketing their weapons and began chattering its teeth rabidly while in hot pursuit.
This distance between the humans and the trees did not appear to matter to the bowtruckles this day. Not after what they had seen days prior. The boy [emjay] did ask a very interesting and telling question. Why?? Well, this was rather unusal behavior for Bowtruckles. Sammy was by no means a expert with the creatures, but he knew enough from listening to his grandfather talk about wand wood trees to know they usually weren’t this aggressive unless they felt threatened. Maybe one of his classmates had done something wrong?
”Ouch,” Sammy exclaimed looking down to see that one had climbed up his arm. He carefully plucked the little creature off his shirt and attempted to place it gently on the ground. He then got to his feet.
Looking nearby, he saw that an older Gryffindor girl (Kolyander)with red hair seemed to have some bowtruckles crawling in her hair. ”Need some help?” he asked moving towards her, trying to keep his pace slow and calm so the bowtruckles wouldn’t have any more reason to be upset. He also kept his eyes on the ground around him so he wouldn’t step on the one he had placed back on the ground. Text Cut: Professor Quote:
Originally Posted by Thereos Thereos had entered his own meditative state in his spot on the ground. Content to continue his lesson when the breeze told him so and the rustling and bustling of all the students around the groove ceased. Though he soon found the environment perplexing, the whispers of the trees becoming hurried and angry while he felt no further breeze on his bare back (by human standards) and along his flank.
Curious, Thereos opened his eyes only for these warm brown pools to darken. Leaping up to his feet, powerful hooves pounding at the ground and even reeling back on his hind legs only while his front prayed in the air a moment. Bowtruckles were known to attack when their trees were threatened. Anyone with any sense knew this of the creatures. Someone among his flock of Hogwarts younglings must have approached their tree inappropriately. There was no other explanation to this.
However...this area of the forest was more centaur territory and while bowtruckles were known to visit, it had never been a place of residency. In fact, Thereos could recognize a few of the tiny creatures scampering about. Their roost had been much much deeper in the forest. Where the canopy of green let through no rays of the sun at all...
So why...were they here? The Milky Way was cracked and Pluto ascending.
"TO ME!" he bellowed trotting towards the center of the groove and planting his hooves firmly to the ground. Sammy paused in his movement towards the red-headed girl when the professor began yelling. ”Um,” he said looking at the girl and remembering the professor’s orders to remain within a hand’s reach of his flanks or within distance of someone who could reach the professor. ”We should move closer to Professor Thereos.” He reached out a hand to grab the girl. He’d help her with the bowtruckles when they were closer to the professor.
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