EGG BABY DAYCARE

[spelleton]

[ It's that time of year for mandatory health classes, and with it comes an assignment courtesy of certain Tamer organisations who are having trouble keeping up with a surprising abundance of eggs.

Thus, it falls to Daybreak's intrepid students to help their allies out with this sudden and surprisingly well-timed crisis - by caring for these eggs until they can safely hatch. Each egg has its own specific needs, mercifully detailed in their care sheet...though some have more interesting requirements than others.

Have fun with your eggs, kids. You can always bother the medical staff if you really need help (or, failing that, any staff on hand, regardless if they have any advice for you on childrearing or not.) ]

Comments

[stavros]

[In health class when they receive their eggs, Kokoro picks hers up, looks it over carefully, sets it down, and starts to polish it with the edge of her scarf.]

Is this meant to teach us that children are a great responsibility, or just to find care for the eggs?

[Regardless, it seems, she's taking the assignment seriously. You can find her around campus, taking the egg to other classes wrapped in her scarf (it's getting too warm to wear that normally anyway), dragging it through the quad courtyard in a wagon, sitting it beside her at the Mythril Cage so it can watch(?) while she throws axes at a target, and asking a bunch of questions at the infirmary.]

The handout for mine says "keep from toxins," though I would think that would be a given for any of them...

health class

[doodlesuits]

I'd like to think it's a bit of both, but I feel like it's mostly the latter...

[Trey has... flipped his hat over for his egg to sit in.]

It's kind of funny how this tends to happen like clockwork, though...

[stavros]

Do you mean traditional health assignments or outside organizations asking the school for help with things that get funnelled into school projects?

[doodlesuits]

Asking for help. [A beat.] But I have to wonder how they get all these eggs sometimes... I know it's not just one Tamer coven, but still.

[stavros]

We are well known for helping those in need... so we must get a lot of requests.

[doodlesuits]

True enough. I can only imagine how many people have asked.

[He trails his fingers over the eggshell, tilting his head a bit.]

One thing's for sure, though, it's never boring on campus when it's time for this assignment. Especially when these eggs start hatching.

[stavros]

I do wonder what sort of creatures these are. What did your handout say about basic care?

[doodlesuits]

[Checking his sheet again--]

Apparently I have to keep a really close eye on the temperature for this one--it's apparently pretty easy for too much heat to damage it.

[stavros]

So perhaps it's an ice-based creature, or one that's part plant? There are a number of those, I believe.

[entrainement]

[Hey, you know who's Got This? Serena has Got This.

She's pretty calm about this whole assignment given this is something she's used to.

(It's very likely that a not-insignificant number of these eggs were turned over to Daybreak by the Kalos League. Oops!)

But hey, as Serena's completely chill with taking care of an egg as she does her day to day routine, she's more than happy to offer advice to anyone who's struggling.]

[voidbug]

[There was a bit of confusion for how to take care of egg. Thankfully they were a somewhat decent reader now, and none of the instructions seemed that difficult; other than making sure the environment was fine they weren't completely sure how this was supposed to be a challenge.]

[For now, they carefully rolled the egg up on to their favorite garden bench where there was already some nesting material for it (leaves, twigs, the usual). And just waited. This...shouldn't take very long, right?]

[stavros]

Oh, you got that assignment too!

[Kokoro smiles, holding her egg in a scarf bundle.]

Is that why you've made a nest?

[voidbug]

[They perked up as Kokoro approached. After her question they quietly tapped something into their phone.]

Yes!

Waiting to grow.

[Although, seems a tad perplexed about it.]

It takes long?

[stavros]

I would assume so. Anything would take some time to develop before being born, and we do have a couple weeks for this assignment... wait, you did not intend to sit here that long, did you?

[voidbug]

[A long pause... They were a bit surprised even if there wasn't much of a way to show it. Weeks is a very long time to wait for egg. Lots of sitting. Would have to get up sooner or later.]

Should find safe place to grow, if weeks.

[stavros]

Do you not have someplace to live yourself? Though they do want us taking the eggs around with us to teach us how much of a burden and responsibility real children are... presumably.

[voidbug]

[They shook their head. Although, they aren't sure if that was mistaken for not having a place to live; rather than they were not homeless.]

[They do notice that she was carrying an egg too though. Hmm...]

You have to carry egg?

Too cold to leave in room alone?

[stavros]

Yes, and I am unsure of when it will hatch. Though the main thing is they wish to impress upon us not to take the decision to have children lightly, I think. At least that's what I gather from this being a health class project.

[voidbug]

[Well they had no desire to have children...not even sure about the logistics of it anyway. But they could take better care of the egg anyway, if it meant an even better chance of survival.]

I can keep egg safe.

[Possibly would have been spoken with a bit of determination, considering now they were in the process of picking said egg up to move it. Carrying it around won't be that easy though, it was maybe like a fourth of their size after all.]

[stavros]

I have full confidence in you. ...though perhaps it would be wise to get a wagon or something to carry it in.

[voidbug]

[Another momentary pause. Trying to think of something...]

Do not know where to find one.

[Also won't that require leaving the egg by itself for awhile??]

[stavros]

Ah... yes, perhaps. I wonder if one could be made? We have weapon shop, carpentry shop... there must be something.

[voidbug]

[Could they??]

Right now?

[stavros]

...I suppose? I mean, someone in there might be able to help at least...

[voidbug]

[Thiiiiink]

Should I bring egg?

[stavros]

It would be better than leaving it unsupervised. Ah, did you find a solution for the height issue?

[dispare]

[One of the academy's 11th-grade students, April Fiore, is wandering into the infirmary for one of her regular check-ups, one of the few occasions she can actually be seen outside of classes. Her particular circumstances demand that she come in here pretty regularly, out of a need to make sure that her body is still working properly. She hasn't been so active as to put a whole lot of stress onto it over the past years, but there's no such thing as playing it too safe.

She, uh, just wasn't expecting EGG.]

What— [She turns to the nearest person who isn't Becky on one of her usual volunteer stints, and nudges them if they're not already paying attention.] What's this.

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[OOC NOTE: This is Espilan with Yet Another OC. April's deal is that she's a student, but some years ago she was involved in an incident that should have killed her (and technically, it did!), but she was (kind of) saved by having her soul taken out before her body died, and then later shoved into a homunculus body modeled after herself. She can't recall many of the details of the incident itself due to dissociative amnesia (and what she can remember, she outright refuses to talk about), and nobody else who was involved willingly talks about it themselves. She is rarely seen outside of classes or the infirmary, preferring to remain in her room unless she has reason to venture out of it.]