>>6169302“I’d be at the house alone most of the day otherwise since mom and dad teach. Travis is here so I have to keep watch on him. Anna has to have her time of the month and I need help her, go out with her. And I do forget things, always good to review. Why not?”
“Heh… you are a good girl. A little odd but… yeah I don’t have room to talk much. Let’s show this maize who is boss.”, and you hacked the cob of corn that nibbled your finger off with a small knife.
>You gained a +1 to herbology! Hid the fact you are high and coked up well, didn’t have a freak out in the middle of class! Will get some valuable info! Did not have your finger bitten off by corn with teeth!--
When class was over, and the rest of the students had dispersed, including Aubrey and your sister with the assigned reading, you stayed back. Offered to help the Professor with shucking the corn all of the class harvested since you were still pumped from your potion.
<span class="mu-s">”Pumped because we kicked the shit out of three guys with Emmy.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”Shut up Jenny!”</span>
“Sir? Um? Can I ask you some stuff?”, then tossed another screwed up toothy corn into a large bucket.
“I’m a teacher. Of course.”
“What ah… what about trees?”
“Alright… that is a broad topic. We will cover many of the magical trees native to America. Which specific trees were you curious about?”
“Ah… I don’t kn-“
And your earlier lecture is in your mind from your History of Magic teacher, on what happened after William the Pukwudgie slew Gormlaith…
<span class="mu-i">”And though she had been abused, had been threatened by her, Isolt was still too kind to just let her aunt’s ashes blow away.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">”And so, beneath the tree <span class="mu-s">is the last resting place of the Dark witch Gormlaith Gaunt…</span></span>
No… he had said the last resting place of her wand… but you knew that was false…
“Sir? Maybe the big one, Snake-Wood? Out by the gates?”
“Ah. That racist thing.”
“What? How… Racist? Okay we are magic. Racist plants make as much sense as anything else. I mean, is it because you’re black or like what? Is it misogynist too?”
“Ha. No, also only half African American. Because I came from a no-maj home. The leaves from it contain powerful healing properties, but?”
“But, professor Lief?”
“The tree is all but <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">invincible</span></span>. Resisted every spell, every no-maj contraption ever used to try and prune or trim it for 400 years. And it will only allow its leaves to be plucked by pure blooded witches or wizards, and then not even all of them. Annoying since I need to recruit students or ask some of our other professors to gather them when I am supposed to be the expert on plants. Right now, only Professor Thompson can pick them, given most of the student body is away, along with some other teachers. And since it gets annoyed if you take too many at one time, it is kind of hard to keep our esteemed Healer stocked with enough for the potions he needs in case something truly bad happens.”
