While something being delivered to her was not cause for great surprise, Sarah was surprised when the package revealed a stuffed animal of all things. A stuffed koala. Extremely cute to the extent it drew a girly sort of noise from her, she checked the package for a note. None, which was not exactly surprising either. Really, there was only one person who would send her a stuffed koala bear and that was Stephen. The question was... why?
She had no idea what this was supposed to mean, as she had never expressed any interest in koala bears, even if she had seen them in a zoo and thought them adorable. Like all gifts of Stephen's that were a bit unique, there had to be some association or reason behind this gift. The jam had been the first strange gift he had given her (and by far her favorite) and the connection had been easy to make. The pajamas as well had been easy to determine, even if there had been no note attached. This, however... she wracked her brain and could not come up with anything off the top of her head. He had compared her to a feline before, so that kind of stuffed animal would be understandable - koalas though? This meant research was required so, stuffed koala in hand - after all, she had just gotten it, she was not going to leave it behind! - she made her way to the library after leaving God and Cleo with toys to distract themselves with.
Quite a sight she likely looked in the resulting time spent researching, in a chair with her leg tucked under her and one arm wrapped around a stuffed animal in her lap. Despite the wizarding world being far more suited to researching magical creatures, she was able to find enough information on koalas to start trying to make the connection. She doubted the connection was anything hugely significant or possibly even obvious, so she read it all. Noting that koalas were generally silent animals, she snorted softly. No, that definitely was not her.
Something in her reading caught her eyes and she grinned, reading the passage several times before thinking she might finally have figured this out. Eucalyptus, though poisonous to many creatures, was the primary food and water source for koalas. That did remind her a bit of Stephen, so perhaps that was the connection? She still was not entirely sure where he was going with it if that was the case, but it seemed the most reasonable when she could not figure out why else she would be linked to koalas in his mind.
Finally, deciding that even if she had no idea what she could have possibly done to remind him of a koala, this still had to be it so she spent some time refreshing her memory on a few charms and transfiguration spells and, when she was done, had a perfect and never-wilting piece of eucalyptus. This she sent back to Stephen via Muninn, without a note just as the koala had come without a note.
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Date: 2006-10-21 06:44 am (UTC)She had no idea what this was supposed to mean, as she had never expressed any interest in koala bears, even if she had seen them in a zoo and thought them adorable. Like all gifts of Stephen's that were a bit unique, there had to be some association or reason behind this gift. The jam had been the first strange gift he had given her (and by far her favorite) and the connection had been easy to make. The pajamas as well had been easy to determine, even if there had been no note attached. This, however... she wracked her brain and could not come up with anything off the top of her head. He had compared her to a feline before, so that kind of stuffed animal would be understandable - koalas though? This meant research was required so, stuffed koala in hand - after all, she had just gotten it, she was not going to leave it behind! - she made her way to the library after leaving God and Cleo with toys to distract themselves with.
Quite a sight she likely looked in the resulting time spent researching, in a chair with her leg tucked under her and one arm wrapped around a stuffed animal in her lap. Despite the wizarding world being far more suited to researching magical creatures, she was able to find enough information on koalas to start trying to make the connection. She doubted the connection was anything hugely significant or possibly even obvious, so she read it all. Noting that koalas were generally silent animals, she snorted softly. No, that definitely was not her.
Something in her reading caught her eyes and she grinned, reading the passage several times before thinking she might finally have figured this out. Eucalyptus, though poisonous to many creatures, was the primary food and water source for koalas. That did remind her a bit of Stephen, so perhaps that was the connection? She still was not entirely sure where he was going with it if that was the case, but it seemed the most reasonable when she could not figure out why else she would be linked to koalas in his mind.
Finally, deciding that even if she had no idea what she could have possibly done to remind him of a koala, this still had to be it so she spent some time refreshing her memory on a few charms and transfiguration spells and, when she was done, had a perfect and never-wilting piece of eucalyptus. This she sent back to Stephen via Muninn, without a note just as the koala had come without a note.