A Day In The Life of A Worm PV Kovacs

For Errand: Wormer in Winter

{ PV to Reid Kovacs }

Monday, 1st February 2021

Serena was not one to shy away from harmless little worms. Of course, there had been times that people thought she would be afraid of them or think they were gross - namely that annoying Paracelsus boy some years ago. However, she had no problem with them. Getting dirty was not really a concern that Serena had. So when the groundskeeper asked for some volunteers to help take care of the creatures, she simply had to oblige! It sounded like so much fun.

It was now almost dinner time. Serena had spent the entire day carrying the worm around, nestled in a little blanket and taking care of him as she attended her day's classes. For the most part, it went fine. There was the time when she thought she almost cast a spell at the worm during class when they were practising their newly taught spell, but no, no, he was totally fine. That mild panic aside, he was doing pretty well. Well, for the most part. There was another moment when she thought she lost him. He had managed to move around her desk and got himself hidden behind one of the textbooks on it. For a moment there, Serena thought she had dropped him somewhere - or dropped him on the floor, which begged the question of whether someone had stepped on him or not. A lot of relief surged through her when she found him.

Honestly, she had no idea how she managed to concentrate on her lessons. Did she even manage to do that? Most of her attention had been making sure he was fine and he stayed where he was meant to stay. The biggest challenge was mostly keeping Pizza Rat away from him during lunch and after class.

Did rats eat worms? She had no idea. But Pizza Rat seemed insistent on trying to get close to Slimy Towers, the first of its name. She actually had no idea if Slimy Towers was a male or female worm but that did not matter. Honestly, she had no idea if Pizza was to eat the worm or play with them or what but that was not a risk she wanted to take. Pizza had gotten a little chubby over the years of eating a lot and not exercising at all. Though he was not a big creature, he was still quite a bit heavier than small little flobberworm.

With Pizza Rat tucked safely into her left pocket - as far away from Slimy Towers as possible - Serena lifted the flobberworm in her right hand as she made her way towards the Great Hall rather slowly. There was still a little time before dinner so there was no immediate rush. She was mostly just busy playing with her new friend before she had to return him. Her hair was pulled back into a ponytail so she could avoid getting the thick slime in her hair. Though, he had managed to get some into one of her textbooks and probably all over the common room when she was there earlier. Whoops.

Serena would have gone outside with the worm but it seemed rather cold. And the whole point of the event was to keep the flobberworms warm and happy, right? So she decided to keep it indoors all day. There was a point where she almost took him to her dorm room but then realised that she did not really want to sleep in the slime. She might have not minded getting some on her hands or things but sleeping in slime was probably not very nice. Figuring she had no idea how to wash the slime out, she just let the creature stay warm in the common room, as she sat near the fireplace - nestled onto the sofa.

Walking through the corridors, she sported a huge grin on her face as she made little kissing noises towards the creature placed on her palm. They seemed to be moving out of the blanket that they had been provided with earlier, as though it wanted to go for a walk outside of it. Taking it as a sign, she lifted the little worm onto one of the suits of armour and watched them trailing over the shoulder, making their way across the suit. Of course, there was a slime left behind but that was not either of their faults. They were simply just having a little bit of fun, right? Besides, she could not allow them to go for a walk on the floor - what if someone did not see the worm and accidentally stepped on it? That would be bad. This seemed a lot safer!

"Who's a good little worm?" She said in an accent as she looked at the brown worm just slowly making its way across the suit, "You know what? I'm gonna call you Knight Slimy. You have now been knighted, good worm!" She announced, deciding that the flobberworm looked absolutely precious with the suit of armour underneath it.

"What do you wanna eat for dinner? Lettuce or cabbage or uh, what else do you even eat?" She asked, not entirely sure what else flobberworms ate. She was aware of they mostly ate the first two and could probably easily find either at dinner. There had to be some sort of salad, right? Lettuce, at the very least, must have been available, surely! "Reid, do you have any idea what these things eat other than that?" She asked tilting her head over to her companion, "Or what is actually for dinner? God I hope it's good. I'm so hungryyyy," She whined slightly, suddenly craving a bowl of pasta or some garlic bread or something with lots of cheese. Maybe something sweet. Ahhh, she just wanted food now.

Her eyes widened slightly, "Oh god... hopefully it's not urm... You know," Nodding her head over to the flobberworm to indicate she was trying to say 'flobberworm' subtly without actually saying it out loud like you would for a child, "Fritters..." Flobberworm fritters had been served at the school before but it was certainly not something she enjoyed eating or wanted her new friend to see. Oh in the name of Merlin, Slimy wasn't going to become food soon, right?!?!

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