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Watching with rapt attention as the teacher demonstrated his own terrarium, Miela broke out into a wide grin. That had to be magic, surely! The teacher had thoroughly explained that it wasn't, but Miela still equated science to magic that had a definite explanation. "Dirt, water, a plant... And a lid?" Miela carefully assembled her terrarium that night, lovingly arranging the dirt so that the water made sort of a shoreline next to the small dandelion she chose to put inside as well. Screwing on the lid and taping a crayon-scrawled name tag on top, she clapped her hands and grinned.

She ran happily over to the teacher the next day, holding the little jar up for him to see. "I'm done! Isn't it pretty?" She looked up at him eagerly, her wings flaring out excitedly.

The terrarium project was a blast! The room got messy with soil, but the feel of patting it into place, making a little indent for the water, and then pouring it in was bliss for Quilo. He added several tufts of grass from the available plants and tied a piece of plastic wrap over the top with a rubber band. With his terrarium all finished, he signed his name on it and put it on the windowsill where it could get some light. Quilo was practically bursting with pride. He couldn't wait to show Ella and Tarin! They'd be so happy. He wondered what theirs would look like.

Science class would be a whole lot easier if Melisara could actually read Mr. Tan's writing. It was very cramped, and as it was, she was glad she was sitting towards the front of the classroom. She wrote down all of the steps, then rewrote them as a flowchart. They all sounded pretty simple, so why did anyone see the need to teach them? Would they ever learn real science in this class? Or was it all just going to be methods and equipment?

Ah, well. Her job was to do well in school. She knew her father would shake his head at her for thinking that this stuff was boring--numerology borrowed heavily from the sciences. She sighed. She didn't want to disappoint her father. She sat up straighter in her seat and tried to be more attentive.

As soon as the assignment was given, Tarin knew exactly who to ask for advice, Sari had been an engineering student before she'd dropped out of Leviathan, so how to best construct a project like this was definitely her forte.

Tarin dutifully took notes as they discussed what kind of plants might be best and she settled on finding some ferns that would do relatively well. There were even promises of a possible pet if she got a good grade. After all it was a waste to make such an elaborate unit and not put something in it.

Satisfied she'd gotten all she could Tarin raided some of the storage closets finding an old aquarium and carefully set to work filling it with soil, sand, water and eventually some ferns she "borrowed" from one of the greenhouses. She had to have some help getting it to class the next day, but she felt proud of herself none the less.

Batholith sighed with relief. Good. He had a few more days to soak in the rocky goodness from the front of the classroom this time, thank you very much. "Just wanted to make sure," he said nonchalantly. "And hey, if you could point me in the direction of a few books, it would be much appreciated." He'd checked out a couple so far, but he was curious to know what sort of books Mr. Tan might find useful for the subject. Besides, maybe he'd direct him towards some of the books he hadn't checked out yet. "Thank you, sir."

Already familiar with how the scientific method worked, Yihad didn't have much trouble figuring out how to do the worksheet. What hu did have a problem with was trying to read the teacher's not so easily visible handwriting on the chalk board from where hu was sitting. Back of the classroom as far as hu could from everyone else, Yihad was starting to regret this spot the more hu tried to read the board. If anything, the only way hu would fail is if hu had to completely rely on reading what was on the board for this class.

Once everyone else had turned their assignments in at the end of class and left, Yihad made hus way to the front and quietly handed hus work to Dax, afraid to mention to hus teacher how it was hard to read his handwriting from the back of the class. Instead of voicing about hus inability to read the board, hu ended up just rushing out of the classroom, trying hard not to run in the hallways as hu tried to make it to hus next class.

Foras was more concerned about making his terrarium look cool instead of practical. So he found a nice jar to set his terrarium up in and than found some pretty rocks to decorate the bottom with. The next steps he followed by the example Dax had given them in class. He added soil and used a little stick to dig a whole for some water to settle in. Than placed in some moss and a little plant. By the time he woke the next morning there was another sprout! He was happy to turn in the project the following day in class.


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