Iris Cobb
January 27, 2023 5:34 PM
Yes, exactly. by Iris Cobb
Iris looked up at Hansel from her work on the mutilated plant. He was such a Teppenpaw, his kindness was one of the things she really liked about him. She couldn't help but agree with him. "True, but it is still sad the the poor plant had to suffer."
It occurred to her that this might not be the best topic of conversation to lead in the direction she would like. Iris had a few talents, but being coy and subtle were not among them. She was aware of this fact, so she knew there wasn't much point in trying. "Do you have a lot of plants back home?" She gave him a smile that bordered on apologetic, "I'm sorry, it's just that we've both been going to this school for a few years now and we've never really got to know each other."
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Yes, exactly.
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Hansel Hexenmeister
January 27, 2023 8:23 PM
Right then by Hansel Hexenmeister
Hansel nodded in agreement that the plant shouldn't have needed to suffer. He didn't like anything to suffer, though admittedly, plants were not usually very high on his priority list of things to worry about.He blinked in surprise as she asked about plants at his home. "Uh, well, we live in a desert, so not naturally. We do have some snake enclosures that have plants, though, to give them the environment they're comfortable in," he added, then decided a little context was necessary. "We raise snakes. Do you, uh, have a lot of plants where you come from?" he returned the question, since she seemed to think this was something they should know about one another.
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Hansel Hexenmeister
Right then
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Iris Cobb
January 27, 2023 9:22 PM
Yes, so... umm... by Iris Cobb
"Yes," Iris responded with perhaps just a tad bit more enthusiasm than was strictly necessary. "I mean, yeah," she reigned back in whatever that had been. "I live up on a forested mountain in Kentucky, so... lots of plants. I used to have a nice little garden before I started here. Now..." she shrugged a bit and cleaned another section of their bedraggled plant. "Well, now I guess I'm in charge of the Gardening Club.""You raise snakes?" She had of course known this, but she'd never learned why. "We have plenty 'round us, more of a nuisance than anything else though. What do you do with them?"
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Iris Cobb
Yes, so... umm...
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Hansel Hexenmeister
January 28, 2023 6:03 AM
Umm, yeah. Snakes. by Hansel Hexenmeister
“That’s cool,” Hansel said in response to her description of the Kentucky mountains. He could hardly imagine it, but it sounded cool. Even Sonora was technically in a dessert, so all of its plants were purposefully cultivated as well.“Congrats!” He added when she dropped that she was the president of the Gardening Club. He was an occasional attendee of a few clubs already so he hadn’t really paid much attention to who was running the other ones.
He frowned a little when she called snakes ‘a nuisance’ but answered her question. “We’re an ethical source for snake related potion ingredients. We also sell a few, but there’s not really a high demand for snakes as pets.”
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Hansel Hexenmeister
Umm, yeah. Snakes.
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Iris Cobb
January 28, 2023 6:39 AM
Snakes are nice by Iris Cobb
Iris smiled and blushed slightly at his 'congrats'. It wasn't as if she had done a lot to earn the position, she'd just been the oldest member that was willing to take over the presidency. Still, she supposed she had stepped-up to take responsibility for it and that wasn't nothing. "Are you in any clubs?" She thought he was at one of the Dueling club meetings at one point, but she wasn't sure what her own attendance might look at with the recent change in leadership. Other than that she also occasionally showed up for the visual arts club to work on her drawing and painting skills.She caught the small frown at her response about snakes. That wasn't good. She may have messed up there. The thought of raising snakes for use as potion ingredients hadn't really occurred to her, coming from muggle society and all. Which naturally meant he didn't, which she kinda knew, and probably knew about her... and Liesl wasn't muggle at all.
"That's neat," She attempted to recover any lost ground, "I don't have anything against them, but Uncle Jayne has a terrible time keeping them out of the chickens. Some of them are quite pretty, once I saw one with red, yellow and black bands along it. I tried to draw it, but it didn't come out very well."
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Snakes are nice
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Hansel Hexenmeister
January 28, 2023 2:19 PM
Like any group, some are nicer than others by Hansel Hexenmeister
Hansel made a wavering hand motion in answer to her question about being in clubs. "I joined the Dueling Club when my sister ran it, and never totally stopped going to it, but I can't say I go regularly. Isn't that your brother who's running it now?" he checked, pretty sure they were both Cobbs. "Not really a part of any of the others, but I've dropped in on the Arts clubs before, too, but even less often than the dueling one. I'll sometimes go to Quidditch, too. I'm not on the official school team, but I'll fill in for practice games, sometimes, if they don't have enough people for two teams."Hansel nodded. Snakes did like chickens, and they did not understand the idea of something not belonging to them if they could catch it. He could understand the conflict there. "Hmm. I'm sure there's a way to convince them to leave the chickens alone, but I'd need to meet the snakes, and see what alternative food sources they have, to know the best way to go about it. And drawing snakes is harder than you'd think," he commiserated. "I've tried it, too, and it never looks right."
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Hansel Hexenmeister
Like any group, some are nicer than others
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Iris Cobb
January 28, 2023 5:34 PM
You have a good point by Iris Cobb
"Yes," Iris answered with a combination of resignation and exasperation. "He does, which means I suppose I probably won't go to it much anymore." Hansel had joined because his sister had been in charge, now she was avoiding it because her brother was. She wasn't quite sure what said about their relationship... no, that wasn't right. She did, it was just apparently vastly different than Hansel's and his sister's. "It must be nice to want to be with your sibling."She gave Hansel a small smile, "If you know how to do that, you'd make Uncle Jayne very happy." The other fact he dropped was something she hadn't known before. "I didn't know you drew. That's great!"
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Iris Cobb
You have a good point
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Hansel Hexenmeister
January 28, 2023 8:13 PM
I like to think I have a lot of good points by Hansel Hexenmeister
Hansel tilted his head at her as she said she wouldn't be going to dueling much now that her brother was in charge. He had trouble imagining a world where he'd want to avoid Hilda or Heinrich. Iris also noticed the difference and commented on it. He nodded. "Yeah, they're enough older than me that they were almost always away at Sonora when I was growing up, so having them around during the summers was always a special treat and a lot more fun than not having anyone around to play with other than Dad and the snakes. There's . . . not really anyone else around out in the badlands of Utah. It's miles to the next closest neighbor, and that's the guy who helps out on the ranch when Dad needs another hand.""I mean, kind of," he dismissed his drawing ability. "More like doodling in class than real art." It was still too early in the year to have much in the way of examples, but this was definitely the class where he got the most doodling done, while Professor Wright talked.
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Hansel Hexenmeister
I like to think I have a lot of good points
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Iris Cobb
January 29, 2023 5:28 PM
I think you do. by Iris Cobb
Iris nodded along with Hansel's explanation. It sounded a bit lonely. "Maybe that is a lot of the difference. Billy is only one year older than me, and we were always stuck doing everything together. Plus, we also had lots of family around and not really anyone else always around. Which meant I did have other cousins and such to be with, but he did as well and more often than not the groups clashed and..." her voice drifted off and she waved her hand around a bit. "It wasn't always great. Now, with us coming here most of the year, it makes things weirder when we go back home."He sounded a bit lonely, and she wanted to escape. That solution sounded simple enough from her point of view. He had to see it as well.
Iris giggled a bit at his comment about his artistic abilities, "Doodle are fun, I'd love to see some sometime."
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Iris Cobb
I think you do.
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