CoMC Lesson 1

Isabella looked confused. "I don't think i've ever seen death..." She shrugged, pushing her deep thoughts behind. "Maybe... As a baby?" She thought hard. A dark night, a flash of green light... Then, nothing. She looked at Casey, her face grim. "Oh. I think... I think I saw my mother die," She said calmly, her voice slow and even. On the inside she was exploding with questions: Who did it, Where are they, and most importantly, Why? She shook head clear of those thoughts, her outside demeanor still calm, impassive.

She turned to the Professor. "I must confess I don't know much about them, but they sure look like omens of death. I'm not surprised the people who made that up do think that." She looked at them again. She shuddered. The student said they were carnivores. Just great.

Gwen continued to be silent having no wish to say anything to the creatures that she loved and loathed. After all, she was the reason that she could see them. She and the rest of her family, may they all either rest in peace or rot in hell.
She was glad that she had come to terms with it, that she had her immidiete family´s forgiveness, but she would never forget that night.
She´d never forget what she always would be.

Jay pulled his hand back down and didn't say anything else about the thestrals. They were cool and he loved them because of their intelligence, but his remembers where sad. As sad as Gwen seemed to be. He moved to her side and poked her side slightly offering her a cute smile.

Gwen gave him a small smiled and hugged him sideways briefly "Thanks Pillow, I´m fine, don´t worry." she whispered. She had put all her bad memories into the pensive except the memories of her training and her murder. She wasnt ready for that yet.

Isabella walked towards the black, bony horse-like creatures. She hesitantly touched one, sliding her hand down its neck. She continued patting it. It was... Surprisingly not bad. The threstal didn't turn and bite her; it seemed to be enjoying the attention. Isabella smiled. Maybe threstals weren't half-bad after all. Even if she didn't know why she could see them...

Indiana kept his eyes on one of the thestrals before slowly approaching the creature. However, he only kept a passive gaze at the creature, which returned it in kind as though it was trying to see into his soul.

Nonetheless, the youth maintained his ground.

Julie stared blankly at the area where the Thestrals were supposed to be, moving forward until she walked into something warm and solid. She let out a squeak and took a step back, hand flying up to her mouth. "Sorry," she said softly. Thestrals were supposed to be intelligent after all. She stepped back again and visualised the illustration in her book, and the description her grandmother had given.

Gwen nodded at a thestral and it nodded back. They were rather friendly creatures and in her new animagus form she sometimes spent time with them. She ran her fingers over it´s bony features and it´s tongue shot out to lick her hand. It wasn´t a playful gesture so much as a comforting one. Almost as if saying 'I`m sorry that you can see me little one' She smiled a tiny little bit and gently kissed it´s snout.

Jay was doubting about getting nearer or keep his position there, away of his memories. He knew that thestrals weren't agressive, they were nice and he loved them but his feelings were still close enough to hurt.

Finally he sighed and decided to approach one of the thestrals, but he went with Gwen, offering her a cold smile and patting the thestral absently, really looking to nowhere.

Casey saw Isabella walk over and start petting something. She saw other people going up to invisible things. Taking a deep breath she walked over to Isabella, following the path the other girl had taken. When she reached Isabella she stood next to the girl. Then she hesitantly reached out a hand and felt something solid. She almost jumped. She timidly pet the threstral. "They aren't that bad, are they?" she said.

Isabella was petting the threstral gently, when Casey went up to her. She hesitantly rose a hand to the creature that was invisible to Casey's eyes. Isabella smiled. Casey was patting its neck, and it turned towards her. Its eyes were watching Isabella. She smiled and rubbed its graceful head. Casey turned to her, almost jumping when she felt the threstral underneath her hand. "They aren't the bad, are they?" Casey asked.

Isabella nodded. "Yeah, they're..." She searched for the right word. "Gentle. They are bony, black, with bat-like wings. Yet... Their appearances are deceiving. I think the last thing Shadow here would do would be to hurt us. I get this feeling that they're... Benevolent creatures. Here," She moved Casey's hand towards the threstral's head, right behind its ear. "Scratch right there," She told her.

Julie nodded and gave the invisible creature one last long stroke before turning and heading over to where her bag was. She squeaked as she brushed into another one and diverted her path in a long, cautious semi-circle. "I'll get right on it, Prof," she said cheerily with a wave to the teacher as she collected her bag and started the walk back up to the the castle.

Isabella frowned. She didn't want to leave the threstral she had named Shadow. But she backed away slowly, not wanting to startle the darkly beautiful creature, and walked off. "Ok, thanks Professor!!!" She grabbed her sketchpad from The inside of her seemingly small bag and started sketching the creatures. She had enough time before she went to her next class. Isabella loved to draw.

Alliana hadn't been able to see the Thestrals, and so she'd settled for wandering forward until her hand made contact with something solid. It'd caused her to jump slightly in surprise, but with a few pats to the invisible mass, she'd figured it was no doubt one of the Thestrals.

She continued to pet it until she heard her Professors words, and slowly she backed away from where she was. Taking a mental note of the homework that was given, she gave a slight wave to both the Professor and her classmates before making the trip back up to the castle.

Casey pet the Threstal were Isabella told her to. Then she heard the teacher assign their homework. Making a mental note to start it soon, she backed away from the creature. She saw isabella start to draw something and a few other kids start to leave. She said goodbye to Izzi and waved to the teacher. Then she turned and walked slowly back to the castle,

Finished with her sketch of her threstral, she wrote a quote she had heard somewhere on it, and labeled the top, "Isabella Taylor CoMC Assignment". Perfect, she thought. She walked quickly towards the owlery, it was time to turn in her already-finished assignment.

Gwen sighed and hooked her arm in Jay´s pulling him with her. That cold smile had been strange on him, almost forced. He had stayed with her, even when he found out about what she had done. And she´d do the same for him.

Jay was so lost in his thoughts that he hadn't even noticed that the class had finished till he felt himself pulled out of the class by G, but he didn't say anything.