Egg meets Toad

[Melissa Adler]

Mel's heals rang on the stone floors, her pace brisk as she carried a cage at arms length. those who got close enough to her could hear her hissing a stream of unintelligible words that seemed wholly inappropriate for the toad that squatted within.

Arriving at Tabby's door she thrust it open without knocking. Sorry to barge in, but we have a problem. Take a look under this creature's bum and tell me what you see."

OOC:
Who: Mel
Expecting: Tabby
Notes: The reason Mel isn't removing the egg is three fold; the cage prevents casting spells into it and on it, the cage is locked, and the toad is poisonous and maybe a magical breed. Which is giving me an opening to make it's "spawn" a bit less or more deadly.

[Tabby]

Tabby jumped as her door was thrown inward and looked up. She’d taken advantage of her lunch hour to cool down from the heat by having gotten her lunch straight from the kitchen, cooled ramen and shaved ice with sour apple flavoring and an iced tea in one of several fruity flavors, and then retreating to her quarters to strip down to her undergarments and eat. So, she was sitting at her desk, in her underwear, with a rather long trail of noodles hanging out of her mouth. She blinked her sea green eyes at the intruder, the DADA teacher Melissa Adler, and slowly sucked the mouthful of noodles up. She swallowed them without bothering to chew, knowing that she’d be fine aside from some mild sleepiness later.

“You know, Professor Adler, they invented doors for a reason? And then they invented knocking for a very similar reason. It’s called privacy. As for what I see, I see a toad, which is refusing to lift its rumpus.” She poked her wand between the bars and prodded the toad, making a noise like an unhappy and hungry raven at the same time. The toad shifted, letting her see what it had been sitting on and her bronze eyebrows made a jump for the golden tips of her bangs.

“Well hot damn. Where on earth did you find this little beastie and his cage Professor Adler? Because I believe this should be reported to the headmistress. Not that I’m going to let her take a chance to study such a fine beast from me, hang the Ministry itself. Hmmm… I wonder if tinted glasses would douse the effect of the basilisks glare…” The last part was a quiet mumble as she got up from her seat, nearly stepping on the tail of what looked like a miniature lion. It hissed at her and she kicked its flank lightly. She poked at the egg a little with her wand and was rewarded by the toad spitting venom at her. She was quick enough to dodge getting it in her face, although her hair was now going to require quite the wash.

“Hey now, don’t you go and pull attitude with me. Dangerous you might be but you are no nundu my friend. If you can’t best that then you can’t best me. Now then, be you male or… ah, a female toad. Perfectly lovely. Well then, let us go and report this to Kali and I can start arguing with her about keeping it for studies.” With that Tabby started to leave the office, still clad in nothing but a cotton ensemble of underwear that was meant to be practical and comfortable more than sexy.

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Author Notes: I just died laughing.

[Melissa Adler]

Mel turned all sorts of amusing shades of red when she realized how Tabby was dressed. Or not dressed as the case was. But having seen more horrific sights then an attractive woman in her undergarments, both when she was younger and on the job, Mel didn't turn away. She just made sure her eyes where on Tabby's face or the toad and it's egg.

"Yes, well ... sorry. I assumed you where being normal and not lounging around in a state of undress where students might walk in on you." Mel replied with a shrug. While she wasn't a prankster, she was beginning to map out the spells needed for a self switching "The Teacher is Dressed/Undressed." sign for Tabby's door.

"I found it down in the dungeons near the Slytherin house while looking for a new bogart for class. The one I'd had up and moved out on me. I guess it didn't like being used by every class. Any way, I can't say if it was a student of that house that is breeding a basilisk, or someone hoping the hatchling would go on a rampage in the house. And no, glasses do nothing to protect you from their gaze. it's all about impeding the line of sight." Mel shook her head a little as Tabby poked the toad, leaning over to get a look at the Critter Care teacher had lurking behind her desk.

Sighing as she hurried after Tabby, Mell was unaware that where tabby had poked the egg a small crack had formed...