ERRAND Pygmys Everywhere PV GRP

Simon was assigned to the Charms corridor. He wasn't sure who was in his group yet but he did know the Charms corridor well and what was difficult about the Charms corridor when there was a pgymy puff infestation was that there was at least one secret passage that they would have to tackle as well as the corridor and classrooms. Simon was up for the challenge. He had brought his enchanted satchel with him full of odds and ends and he had his wand in hand ready.

As he walked, it was a bit of a dangerous situation before him. Those assigned to other corridors and the enchanted staircases were casting around spell after spell, not really caring where their intended target rested. This overuse of basic spells could easily get anyone jinxed if they weren't careful. Simon noticed that it seemed in an effort to cast something to defluff the pygmy puffs, an entire group of students were only making the ones in their assigned section fluffier.

When he got to the Charms corridor, he saw someone there and he smiled, figuring it was one of his assigned groupmates. "Hello, and fluffy greetings. I'm Simon Kincaid. Pleasure to meet you.......Ava," he deducted. He knew Ebony and he knew Lyanna so this was the only other group member of his.

"Perhaps we should devise a plan while we wait for the others. I've had a few thoughts but open to any suggestions you or the others might have. There's the "Lure them with Snacks" plan where we could scatter sweets everywhere, attempting to gather them in one place. We'll still have an infestation, mind you, but at least it'll be organized." And most likely sticky.

"Or we could improvise some contraptions. In the muggle world at St. Patrick's Day, sometimes kids make up this elaborate sort of creation out baskets and nets and pillows and scarves attempting to catch a leprechaun. We could do the same but for the pgymy puffs."

"I suppose we could also attempt to train them," he said as he glanced around, seeing that some were hopping about without a care in the world and some others were hiding. Simon had trained his owl last year when he brought it to school and he had taught his pet rat a trick or two. And then Porter, the family dog back home knew loads of tricks. Maybe they could teach these fluffy creatures 'follow me.'

"All I do know is that I hope we can figure out a plan that doesn't involve harming them. That's not what I signed up for in this." He wanted to help God's creatures, never harm. But it didn't seem as though this girl would want that either.

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Ava was focused on getting the fluffy puffs. Now improvising her parchment papers to put the fluffs in them. She was so focused on gathering the pink and blue puffs that she jumped in surprise at the unknown voice. Looking at where the voice came from, she saw a Hufflepuff student who looked much older than her. She knew she had seen him somewhere, but couldn't pinpoint where.

"Hello, Simon!" She greeted him, smiling. "Can't we just remove the fluffs? We have to catch them, too?" Ava asked, a bit worried, she had never seen one from close, let alone think of catching those fluffy creatures.

Hearing the word 'train', she wondered, "Can we keep them?" If they could, Ava would love to have one. One thing she figured about those creatures was that they had some of the softest furs she had touched. Taking a nap while cuddling them would be a dream.

The seer did agree on his last statement of not harming them. "If we have to catch them, I think the snacks one would be best. I mean, who doesn't get lured by that?" The seer was convinced that, like her, everyone is in love with food and a trap involving food luring would always work.

@Simon Kincaid @Ebony Vetra & @Lyanna Oak

"Ebony, good to see you again," Simon said with a smile as the girl came and began to tackle some of the brightly colored fur around them. It made him think of what the tufts of a truffula tree might look and feel like from the muggle book "The Lorax," by Dr. Seuss. It was a LOT of hair and Simon could see where this, especially in such high amount, could be deemed as somewhat of a nuisaince but also as two pygmy puffs came tumbling into the corridors before them, wrestling around in a playful cat-like manner, Simon did have to think they were adorable. He could see his girlfriend AngelFyre adoring these little creatures.

"I think sweet treats is precisely what we need! My Aunt Maggie owns a bakery in London and is always sending me homemade lemon flavored treats. I've got some that are small and aromatic. We can scatter them around like bait, no need for plates or any fuss."

But they would need something to contain the fluffy creatures in. Simon looked around. There was a wooden bench under a window that was filtering in light, a couple suits of armor. There was several wall mounted sconces that were also torching light.

Simon walked to the wooden bench. It already had a boxy structure to it and figured that it could be reshaped into a ventilated crate with slats - making a ventilated secured cage for creatures.

"Alright, we need something to place them into," he said as he decided after a quick assessement and drew out his wand. He performed a general transformation charm and the seat began to collapse and reshape to where the wooden structure became more pox like. The sides rewoorked to become walls and moved to create small ventilation gaps - enough for the small creatures to get air but not nearly enough for any of them to escape. Some of the hardware on the bench moved to create a hinged door for an opening. Everything rearranged just right so now the bench became a box=like containment perfect for pgymy puffs.

"Alright, we lead a trail to here. If we get too many.....," but there didn't seem to be an overwhelming amount in their section, "I don't know how to make an enlarging charm on the crate but I do know how to shrink down the puffs themselves."

Now he opened up his satchel to gather the bait. Maybe they already began to smell what was inside because three pgymy puffs, all pink, popped out from the shadows to peer at the students. "I've got these tiny lemon shortbread buttons," and he brought out a bag. "They're crumbly, butter, and give a sharp citrus smell when broken. That might be perfect for attracting these curious little crea....." but he paused in seeing the three glancing their way. Not wanting to draw attention to them, he carried on. "I think they might be perfect for attracting these curious little creatures."

"I've got some candied lemon peel confetti strips," he pulled out another bag with thin yellow strips. "These are chewy and can easily be scattered to be trail markers."

He also had some lemon sugar pearls in his bag but since those were crunch and almost like compressed lemon drops, they were his favorite. He'd save those last because maybe they wouldn't need to be sacrificed to the fluffy things.

"So we make a controlleed path, all down the corridor to the crate. One treat every few feet. We want to make sure we're leading them away from the crowded areas and watch that we're not going to create a spot where there's a fluffy pile-up. Space them out, just so. Sound like a plan?"

"Thank you, Ava," Simon said, beaming. His wandcasting had improved through the years but he hadn't ever specifically been told he was good at Charms or Transfiguration or any of the wandcasting specific classes before. Something about being a dhampir could interfere with certain spells and incantations but he had been working hard to overcome that since he knew he wanted to become a healer. When you were a healer, doing certain things, you just couldn't have the spell fail.

"I don't know, I guess we'll see how chill they are. I wouldn't want to send you into a small enclosed space with little fluffy creatures that were ready to attack." But those three that were still now approaching closer upon them only looked ready to attack - for snacks.

Simon placed one down on the corridor stone floor next to him and the pygmy puffs just eyed him, not trusting enough to get closer. He then backed away, just a few steps, and placed another treat down, then backed up a few more and placed another. It seemed to be working. "Here, you can have this bag," Simon said as he tossed over one of the bags of sweets to Ava. He wasnt sure the other girl wanted to try this method but all he could think is how hard a knockback jinx must felt to these little guys - they could be pretty violent upon him! Hopefully the girl had good aim......

Simon began making his trail towards the crate. "You a fan of magical creatures, Ava? What about you?" he looked to the other. He just was curious what might have brought them out there in the first place.

As Ava began to make her trail of sweets for the puffy creatures to follow, Simon smiled and now there were two paths to entice the animals to his crate. Perfect.

He lined them up, feeling it was almost like setting up dominoes when he brought his one path out one way and his other out the other way, making a sort of fork in the road with the pieces of pastry he had. No, that wasn't a good thought - if two pygmy puffs happened to come upon it at once, maybe they'd start fighting over that and no one needed a cyclone of these things fighting in the corridor - there was already enough hair everywhere.

So he fixed his line and when he glanced back to the others, he saw that Ava had now made a pretty long line and he flashed her another smile and gave her a thumbs up.

Then, seeing as though he had two purple puffs that were following his line, he stepped back so not to startle them and let them head toward the crate. Those were the last two on the left side.....now they just needed to clear Ava's side. He was grateful for her help.

"None of them seem timid around you," he said quieter now. But it was true, they hadn't scattered. Hopefully the remaining pygmy puffs would find themselves brave enough to take Ava's trail and head into the crate and they'd be all done with clearing out this corridor.