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Felixir · 01-18-2022, 10:48 PM

Weeks into the term, and Milo had finally grown used to being called Evans, or Mr Evans, though he tended to ignore it as much as he responded to it. This time, however, he turned to Mr Carton upon hearing his whisper. "I'll be careful," he said. "Very careful."

He didn't take much notice of the maze until the very quiet words of an older(?) student(?) just managed to reach his ears, something about things they could die doing. Milo turned, looked directly at the speaker, and then ahead at what commanded most of the attention around here.

It was true that labyrinths and mazes were often notably, throughout myth and lore and history, dangerous and deadly. Milo could see the appeal of it, when he shifted his perspective just so. In a maze, you could hide all sorts of traps and enemies and tricks that could make the person running it go slowly or quickly insane or dead. Take the Triwizard maze. Take Holmes' Murder Castle. Take Daedalus. But most mazes and labyrinths were just harmless mazes and labyrinths, and though it was always wise to be on guard, this one felt harmless too, and people could die doing anything also. But before he could point out as much to the Gryffindor(?) - beacon of reassurance that he was - the lesson had begun, and Milo decided not to bother.

He redirected his focus to the question instead, unable to ignore the one word and concept that kept cropping up in other answers. Camouflagecamouflagecamouflage. Camouflagecamouflagesabotage. From plenty of Hufflepuffs too, he couldn't ignore that either, and did not try to.

"They eat it." The environment. Animals ate it, or adapted to be able to eat it and not be poisoned by it where another creature might die from ingesting the very same thing. And they survived, unless something else killed them, like a predator, but not hunger, unless they had to compete for food or weren't able to get to it. Always more variables to consider.

01-18-2022, 10:48 PM	#39 (permalink)
Felixir Banshee Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posts: 50,253 Hogwarts RPG Name: Abraham Orlando Botros-Giordano Gryffindor Fourth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Ivor Balfour Spurling Stemp Slytherin First Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Alexei Dragomirov Petrov Slytherin Sixth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: TBC Slytherin Hogwarts RPG Name: August Arthur Orpington Ravenclaw Second Year x12 x12	Lovely™ \| Captain Hurted \| Ariana's Bane \| Resident Antagonist \| Unparalleled Delight Weeks into the term, and Milo had finally grown used to being called Evans, or Mr Evans, though he tended to ignore it as much as he responded to it. This time, however, he turned to Mr Carton upon hearing his whisper. "I'll be careful," he said. "Very careful." He didn't take much notice of the maze until the very quiet words of an older(?) student(?) just managed to reach his ears, something about things they could die doing. Milo turned, looked directly at the speaker, and then ahead at what commanded most of the attention around here. It was true that labyrinths and mazes were often notably, throughout myth and lore and history, dangerous and deadly. Milo could see the appeal of it, when he shifted his perspective just so. In a maze, you could hide all sorts of traps and enemies and tricks that could make the person running it go slowly or quickly insane or dead. Take the Triwizard maze. Take Holmes' Murder Castle. Take Daedalus. But most mazes and labyrinths were just harmless mazes and labyrinths, and though it was always wise to be on guard, this one felt harmless too, and people could die doing anything also. But before he could point out as much to the Gryffindor(?) - beacon of reassurance that he was - the lesson had begun, and Milo decided not to bother. He redirected his focus to the question instead, unable to ignore the one word and concept that kept cropping up in other answers. Camouflagecamouflagecamouflage. Camouflagecamouflagesabotage. From plenty of Hufflepuffs too, he couldn't ignore that either, and did not try to. "They eat it." The environment. Animals ate it, or adapted to be able to eat it and not be poisoned by it where another creature might die from ingesting the very same thing. And they survived, unless something else killed them, like a predator, but not hunger, unless they had to compete for food or weren't able to get to it. Always more variables to consider. __________________ Last edited by Felixir; 01-18-2022 at 11:31 PM. Reason: fixing typo. carton is not marchand. don't look at me.