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May. 3rd, 2014 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_frank(Mrs L, Mr L, we're safe as houses and back from the forest. We didn't run into any trouble, but we didn't come across anything that'd be useful, either.
Mr Hagrid met up with us at the edge of the forest. He told us all about what to look out for, and, well, I get the feeling he was a bit lonely too, and just wanted to talk. He brought biscuits and wanted us to try them. They were sort of awful. I think Luna might've actually chipped a tooth on one.
Anyways. He said that we wouldn't be able to Apparate inside the area we'd be exploring, and that the centaurs didn't like having the giant spiders in their territory, so hopefully we wouldn't run into any. And he walked us up to the border of their territory, and said he'd wait for us there.
He gave us a map he'd made, and we tried to mark where we were going on it and find landmarks so we could track where we'd been, but it was hard to sort out where we were at times because he used a lot of odd symbols, and he wasn't very precise about distances between things.
It felt like we were being followed, but they kept at a distance. We didn't see who or what it was, but thought it might've been a centaur keeping an eye on us. At one point, we caught a glimpse of a herd of thestrals, but by the time we found the clearing, they'd taken off. They didn't leave behind any usable materials, but we marked where we thought it was on the map, because it looked like a regular grazing and watering place, so it'd be worth coming back to.
We didn't encounter any other animals with the exception of some squirrels and small birds. Once it started getting late in the day, we turned back and managed to find Hagrid again. I'm waiting with him until it's a little darker out before heading to the Shack so I can Apparate to Moddey. He says to tell everyone hello, and that he's very glad to be of help, and that there are plenty of leftover biscuits if I get peckish.
We'll give it another try next weekend.)
Mr Hagrid met up with us at the edge of the forest. He told us all about what to look out for, and, well, I get the feeling he was a bit lonely too, and just wanted to talk. He brought biscuits and wanted us to try them. They were sort of awful. I think Luna might've actually chipped a tooth on one.
Anyways. He said that we wouldn't be able to Apparate inside the area we'd be exploring, and that the centaurs didn't like having the giant spiders in their territory, so hopefully we wouldn't run into any. And he walked us up to the border of their territory, and said he'd wait for us there.
He gave us a map he'd made, and we tried to mark where we were going on it and find landmarks so we could track where we'd been, but it was hard to sort out where we were at times because he used a lot of odd symbols, and he wasn't very precise about distances between things.
It felt like we were being followed, but they kept at a distance. We didn't see who or what it was, but thought it might've been a centaur keeping an eye on us. At one point, we caught a glimpse of a herd of thestrals, but by the time we found the clearing, they'd taken off. They didn't leave behind any usable materials, but we marked where we thought it was on the map, because it looked like a regular grazing and watering place, so it'd be worth coming back to.
We didn't encounter any other animals with the exception of some squirrels and small birds. Once it started getting late in the day, we turned back and managed to find Hagrid again. I'm waiting with him until it's a little darker out before heading to the Shack so I can Apparate to Moddey. He says to tell everyone hello, and that he's very glad to be of help, and that there are plenty of leftover biscuits if I get peckish.
We'll give it another try next weekend.)
Private Message to Luna and Colin
Date: 2014-05-04 01:20 am (UTC)How's your tooth?
I'd never seen thestrals before. You're right. They are beautiful. I wish we could've seen them up close, so I could make a proper study of them.)
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Date: 2014-05-04 06:06 am (UTC)I've got a bit of a map sketched out myself, but it's probably just as personal as Hagrid's, and I'm just as sloppy about distances. I'll send it to you anyway.
And I'm sorry I forgot to warn you about the biscuits!
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Date: 2014-05-04 06:17 am (UTC)