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He'd been able to obtain three different poisons from his search among the students. They had his thanks for being such good sports about it that was for sure, donations in exchange for little trinkets. It had been a good plan it would seem.

He'd gotten first a test kit from a Labtech to test the purity of water it would be doing the same job as what Etain would be attempting. At least half of it. The other half of the class was the boy finding the poisons that needed purifying.

He had on the table before him ten cups of water, labeled 1-10. In a couple of them were the poisons a few drops of each to cotaminate the water so that he would have to actually chose which one he believed they were in. Six cups had the poisons in them and four were poison free and pure. It would be up to the boy to figure out which was which using the powers that were inate to his species. Then once that was done he would then be able to try to purify the ones that had the poisons in them. Should prove to be an interesting class.

Just in case though he had antivenoms on hand.

Orpheus looked up from what he was doing, scribbling down some notes on the clipboard in front of him as the two arrived. He pushed up to his feet from his chair and walked over towards them, "Great, I just got everything set up for you." He said, looking down at Etain, giving him his normal, happy smile.

He then turned his attention to the one with him and held out a hand to Tovar, "Orpheus Solon." He introduced himself, "Skills teacher."

"It is good to meet you and Etain as well, you can stay for the class if you like or take the time to do as you like. It won't be a really long, drawn out class and hour at the very most so it is up to you." He told the man.

Orpheus looked over towards the table, "Those cups are going to tie into the skills that we are going to work on today. Do me a favor though and don't drink any of them. I fear it wouldn't turn out well." He said to the unicorn boy before walking over towards them motioning for him to follow.

Orpheus looked at them, "Well I was reading over the skills that unicorns have and can learn. The ones that we decided to work on toward were 'Detect Poisons' and 'Purify'." He told him, "In front of you in some of these cups are the poisons, some are just water. Its up to you to decide which are which." Since it was an innate thing with Etain's kind he wouldn't be able to exactly describe how he was supposed to tell the two cups apart. Maybe it would something he would just feel?

He had the cups labeled and written down on his notes which number went to which poison or if it were just water. The best that he could do was watch and see whether or not Etain could pick them out. The more he found that contained the poisons in them without mixing up a water the better. That meant that he knew what he was looking for instead of guessing at random.

"I'm not exactly sure. Innate abilities are things harder for me to help my students to learn since its not something I can show them how to do." He explained, "Swimming, climbing, running, that sort of thing I'm good at. Now magics like this... are a little above me. Maybe you will sense something, a feeling that something isn't quite right?" He suggested.

Maybe there was something that the unicorn would feel was different between the poison and the water?

Orpheus watched closely as the boy worked wishing that there was more that he could do more him then just offer up suggestions. Maybe this sort of class would have been easier for someone like Raven? He shook his head not wanting to admit to himself that maybe she would have been a better choice, that would make him seem a bit useless wouldn't it?

He watched as Etain sudden decided what he believed to be two of the six tainted cups. Orpheus lifted the top page on the clipboard to look to see the numbers of the cups to see what they contained, "Alright! Nice. Number Four contains the venom I got from my son and number ten contains some dragon acid." He said as he moved those two cups out of the way.

Remaining were still eight cups, four of which still containing poisons.

He reached out to the second cup to pick it up and set it aside, "Ladybug venom." He read from the list that he had in front of him, as Etain couldn't see it he was sure that the boy was picking of his own accord. Deciding which cups he thought were the right ones through whatever sense that unicorn used, "Cobra Venom." Was in the sixth cup, "Dragon Acid." He said pointing to the seventh cup and then the final cup... he blinked almost surprised that he'd gotten one wrong, "This one is water though."

Maybe he got them mixed up since it was pressing against another of the cups? He looked at his list, the one it was leaning against did contain poison so that could be it.

He moved those cups out of the way which left four cups, one of them being poison the last other ones being water.

Orpheus nodded his head as he picked it up, "I think that it leaning against the other cup might have thrown you off a little in your picking." He said as he looked over the last cup that had the last bit of poison in it, the Lady Bug Venom. He set it with the other cups leaving behind the three that had water in them, "You did pretty good, only one mix up that was partially my fault." He should have spaced them a bit better.

He wrote something down quickly on his clip board, a note about the mix up and what he thought the cause of it could have been resulted from, "Now lets see. The last part of the class ties in with an ability to purify." He said, checking his notes over, "From what I gather your power to do something like that ties in with your horns." He said, clearing all of the cups out of the way aside from one that contained venom, "Touching the tainted water with the horn it says is what is supposed to get rid of the poison."

This information he'd taken from a book he read on that subject, again not something he could help with persay but had his kit from the lab that he could use to test the water after the boy tried to rid it of the poison to see if it worked.