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Raemos followed her out into the garden. It was a nice garden - decent loamy soil was still sort of a new thing for Raemos. A new thing in a good way. He took the time to admire the plants.

"This is a lovely garden, miss Sueno..." he commented, noting the fence. That wasn't so lovely - she'd probably made it herself, though, so he declined to comment. He looked the rock up and down. It wasn't so big - he was used to rocks. The desert had plenty of them. That, and sand. Not much else, though. "Of course I will help you expand it." he hopped the fence and set to shifting the rock, moving it gently to gauge its weight and loosen it up for easier carrying.

Raemos knew his beasts - he had an old edition of The Fauna of Magesc that he had nearly loved the binding off of. "Those are all... very big..." he said, stunned. They were also incredibly dangerous predators all, with the exception of Hastar, which were not always too bad. "With very different, ah, needs... Right?" she knew more than he did. Or, at least, he hoped so if she was thinking about raising those... creatures. "I agree. You should definitely keep them far away from your other animals... Though can they be penned together?" who would probably, and quite reasonably, panic if they got near them. Sheron certainly would. Or get eaten. "How would you keep them from escaping?" He had decided to be encouraging, even though inside he was incredulously shaking his head at the slip of a girl who wanted to raise monsters.

It was a little heavier than expected, and would have been awkward to carry, and shoving it in the soil (ahhh, the smell of wet soil) would have only made a mess. He was totally not showing off when he sat back, whispered the spell words, and, with some effort, levitated the stone several feet away. "Good?" he asked, setting it down by a tree and wiping his forehead.

Raemos was somewhat fascinated by the weeding. Obviously, he knew what weeding was, and he'd watched his mother weed their small garden in the back of the cottage, but he'd never weeded before. And the weeds his mother pulled out weren't the vibrant ones that the girl was pulling - they had been hardy, but sun-battered, struggling to hold on as much as any other plant in the desert. Who could blame them for invading the garden?

"You certainly can't." he said, starting on the fence - it truly was a mess, and with her implied permission, he was going to work on it. "Let untamed creatures about the place. Especially if they're predators." He sized it up and, finding a workshed, scrounged up a hammer and some nails and some extra wood. He'd ask for more, but the conversation was just getting good. Besides, this was, currently, a small fence, and what he had would do fine.

He held the nails in his teeth as he lifted and placed the wood that had fallen down - best to deal with that first. On this wet ground, it would rot. "I don't know much about Notbjaovin..." he said, through the nails, "Aside from their preference for darkness and rareness" thank Seren "On Serenia." He hammered in a nail, holding the piece of broken fence until he could get the other nail in, "What do you know about Notbjaovin?" He asked, checking his work, and the work around it.

Oh yes. It was starting to look like he'd have to take some of this apart and re-work it. He wondered if she had made the fence herself? He decided not to ask. "And... if I may ask... how will you go about acquiring the animals, Miss Sueno?"

Fuzzy and deadly cute... Raemos had nothing to say to that. Clearly this little girl was a bit crazy. If she pulled it off, though, then there would be something to it - people bought the most interesting things, and pets - dangerous, protective pets - were well sought after.

"Nets. Ropes. Luring them into a cage with food." he said, listing off some options in time with his hammering, "Since you have to mainly get them close without attacking or fleeing, correct?" when they brought in the kargoth and kugel for training, that was what they did - ropes and bribery. More bribery for the kugel than for the kargoth, but even for the large mammoths bribery had its place.

He took out another section of fence and began to redo it using the newer lumber. "If you plan on going out soon, and this friend is not available, you should ask Cearlan or myself. We would be happy to accompany and assist you..."
And protect you, you crazy child
"We are, after all at your service." he began to hammer in that next section of board, holding it carefully. He doubted she would want him to assist her, being a scary eyeless monster, but surely Cearlan would. He hoped he would.

Raemos raised an eyebrow. Sketchy? Not the word he would have used. 'Player', maybe, and a bit selfish, maybe slightly frivolous but... Rae still liked him all the same. Seren knew why.

"Ah." he said, pretending he wasn't slightly nervous at the prospect of being asked to accompany the girl. After all, it had not been long before that she had been afraid of him.

What would others say? What would others think?

"As for the nets, if you ambush and cast them over the creature, it doesn't need to be hidden..." he said, keeping his anxiety inside. "And then, I suppose, you speak calmly and gently to them? That is what we did when we needed to calm a kargoth on our ranch, actually..." he said, remembering, "Restrain them, talk soothingly, and offer food... I suppose it is the same thing for other animals..." he tested the new fence. Yes. Good. Much stronger.

"Mmm... From a distance." he agreed. That made sense. He stood, leaning against the fence assessingly before he hopped back over and bowed. "It was my pleasure." he said, smiling.

Now that she wasn't afraid of him, he could see things going well on this mission. He could see himself being useful.

This might not be bad, given time.

"I'll be right here if you need me." he said, leaning against the fence and preparing to keep watch.