January 29th, 1895 - Zoo Birthday Celebration

Ten years. A whole decade. Syd hadn't been here the whole time. This had been Zach's endeavor and Syd had only picked it up in the meantime, five years ago now. It felt as much his as it could at this point. He had to wonder if his cousin would come back, but Syd supposed it didn't exactly matter. Zach was still involved, he often wrote to check in and he sent creatures and magizoologists at regular intervals as he encountered them along his travels.

It was a celebration though and so Syd, not really one for such events, knew the importance of being social. It was good for business. They couldn't survive solely on admission prices. They needed the generous donations of their wealthier patrons to keep them afloat, especially as they expanded. The butterfly enclosure had only been able to happen this way and it was doing well, so he wasn't about to look a gift horse in the mouth.

Dressed for the outside temperatures, the daytime events were winding down and Syd still had to help close up and get ready for the evening portion of the celebration. That would be the true test of his manners today. All of this would have been fine, until Syd noticed their solitary, very stupid emu hauling ass his way. "Stephen!" Syd hollered, moving to block the large bird's path. Unfortunately somebody else either hadn't seen him or had moved to see what was going on, and all Syd could see was a collision happening. "Look out!"

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Podmore Zoological Gardens - Irvingly

It had been a lovely day at the zoo meeting with a friend she hadn't seen since her wedding, she looked lovely and Dorothea had a suspicion that it would be only weeks before they announced their first child. Thea was made up for the loving couple of course and waited with held breath for the news. The evening was winding down and the governess was undecided whether she might attend the evening celebrations or she might just retire home and get an early night.

"Stephen!"

How uncouth she laughed to herself playfully as she turned to see who might be raising their voice on such a lovely chilly evening. She stepped out onto the path looked down the way at the gentleman who seemed braced like a rugby player about to take a takle, what she didnt notice was the bird the size of a six year old that she had inadvertently placed herself in front of. She barely had seconds to play "Who's that?" Before the bird careened into the back of her legs and she was sent tumbling off the path down a short slope that helped the path drain. She was certain she heard a snap as she crashed into the ground and felt a horrible pain in her left wrist. She looked back up with her hair tussled, her dress askew and her bag spilt as the emu cocked its head once and carried on its warpath without so much as how do you do?.

Thea sat herself up thinking that at least her own right wing was still working, but her left was quite clearly injured.

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Sydney Podmore

  

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Tiger had always been on the friendly side of the Podmores so he was more than glad to attend a celebration for the zoo. He could hardly believe it had been ten years already. It had been a fun day and things seemed to be winding down. He knew the evening soiree was going to be more selective so perhaps it would be more relaxed? Not that Tiger was unused to rowdy - he had been raised in it.

He saw Podmore just as he tried unsuccessfully to save a young woman from the emu. He darted over and knelt next to the young woman. A broken arm, if he had to guess. "Do you have the emu handled, Mister Podmore?" He asked as he wandlessly magicked up a splint to for the young womans arm. Hopefully others would come to help corral the runaway emu.

  

Despite the emu's speed and force, Syd watched everything happen in slow motion. The poor woman was absolutely bulled over by the bird, though thankfully he didn't weight all that much, and went tumbling into the bushes. Syd caught the nuisance by his neck, using his sturdier build to his advantage; along with the knowledge that the lower he wrangled Stephen, the higher his rate of success. Still he was pushed back a little bit.

Syd eyed the emu straight, as they were almost the same height. "Brat," he mumbled to the bird who was squirming in his grasp. Syd conjured a length of rope and tied it around the emu's neck, harnessing it to the nearest fencepost. He flagged down Miss Bixby as she was the closest one he could envision being capable of handling the emu. Her small stature was hardly ever a consideration, she had proved herself capable of handling quite a bit. "Put him back in his pen if you please." His tone was clipped, but mostly because he was worried about the young lady Stephen had run over.

He heard someone call out to him before he could get to the woman and he sprinted in that direction, relieved to find someone else had gotten there first. "MacFusty, yes, he's being put to bed." Syd was going to have to check his pen to see how he got out. "Come, let's go to my office," it wasn't too far from here. "I can take a look at it." Having that healer's background was an advantage after all.

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Podmore Zoological Gardens - Irvingly

Dorothea continued to nurse her wrist as an unconscionably tall gentleman knelt down and gave her a very quick once over before casting a splinting spell on her. She winced as the bindings took over and tried to flex her fingers. "Thank you, sir." she said through a pained expression on her face as the man who she now realised was Mr Podmore himself joined them after scolding the bird in a manner that at least brought her a little laugh. "Kids huh!" she with a minor eye roll before remembering her discomfort.

The miscreant bird was led away and Dorothea was helped to her feet with the charming gentlemen (I assume) picking up her scattered belongings for her. If she was to guess, she would assume her wrist was broken so she gingerly allowed herself to be led to the Podmore's office. "The bird won't be punished will he? It was awfully careless of me to not look where I was going." always trying to be polite, Thea even as the injured person would prefer not to be a bother to anyone. There was now a few people watching the trio and she would rather be into a more private space as soon as possible.

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Kentigern MacFusty Sydney Podmore

  

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Syd led the way to his office with a brisk efficiency that harkened back to his hospital days, though he moved at a more reasonable pace than he used to. Thankfully his office was not quite as messy as it could be, but his desk was covered in papers and other things he'd been working on here and there throughout the week. "Oh no, he'll just be locked up better. His pen is perfectly large enough for him, he just likes to wander and he's a bit stubborn." Syd assured her with a chuckle.

Gesturing for the young woman to take a seat in one of the chairs at the front of his desk, he rummaged under it for his old healer's bag. He kept it handy for emergencies. It was a hard habit to kill, wanting to be prepared, when he had personally seen some of the damage that creatures could inflict on humans, and probably not a bad thing in the long run. Not many zoos had a former creature-induced healer running the place. Once he surfaced with the bag, Syd snapped easily back into his old profession, even if this wasn't exactly something he would have normally handled, it was something he'd seen and treated countless times. "Is it just your wrist, or anywhere else?"

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Podmore Zoological Gardens - Irvingly

Tiger might have carried the poor young woman if he was not worried about further jostling her arm. As it was, he helped her to her feet and helped guide her after Podmore. He helped her to a seat when they reached Podmores office. "Shall I undo my splint spell so you can take a closer look?" Tiger asked. He was also reasonably experienced in Healing. He had to be since some of his Officers and siblings could be reckless idiots. (Let's ignore the fact the same could sometimes have been said for him.)

  

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Dorothea was glad that the emu wouldn't be punished for her lack of care so she could put that to the back of her mind and focus on the here and now, or the here and ow more specifically. She looked around the room and suddenly felt very strange to be behind the scenes of one of her favourite favourite places to visit. It was also quite an unusual situation to be alone with two gentlemen but the poor bones in her delicate wrists needed seeing too.

She looked at Mr. Podmore "Yes, it's just my wrist physically, a few scuffs elsewhere maybe and a bruise on my pride." she gave a wincing smile as the splinting spell dissipated and her body had to take the strain again. She would let the man politely examine her. "I need a distraction, tell me some facts about our avian friend, I got his name but he didn't stop long enough for me to ask him anything about himself."

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Sydney Podmore Kentigern MacFusty

  

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Syd nodded at MacFusty's suggestion to remove the splint. He needed to get a better look. It was no doubt swelling, but a quick fracture or break was easy enough to mend. Taking the young woman's arm gingerly, Syd chuckled, speaking as he examined.

"Stephen is a poorly-behaved emu. They are native to Australia and the country's tallest bird. Stephen is about the average size for the species." Syd hadn't known much about the birds until Stephen had come to them, but he'd done some reading up and Eavan had lived in Australia in her childhood, so his avian magizoologist knew as much as one could know, so it was good enough. "Unnaturally unintelligent however, he is. He really only listens to my tiny apprentice magizoologist and has a bad habit of getting out of his pen, no matter how secure I think it is." Sometimes he was more trouble than he was worth, but he did think that Stephen was mostly harmless.

"I believe you have fractured your wrist. I can mend it, but let me give you something for the pain first." Syd reached into his bag on his desk and pulled out a potion. After checking the label for the amount, he uncorked it and handed it to the young woman. "This will help."

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Podmore Zoological Gardens - Irvingly

Tiger leaned against one of the tables in the room as Podmore examined the young woman and spoke of the emu. "And how did an emu come to be among the zoo animals of Irvingly?" Tiger asked, mildly curious as well since he at least knew they hailed from Australia. He knew they were generally animals donated from rich people that had wanted an exotic pet before moving on to something else. But that was not always the case so perhaps Podmore would surprise him.

  

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Dorothea nodded in agreement then quaffed the potion quickly. She felt a warming sensation in her stomach that spread to her arm and soothed the pulsing pain in her wrist. He's is a handsome bird, I dont think I'd like to be a zoologist though, give me an unruly child any day.

Ooh, that is better, thank you." she added with a sigh of relief, she still couldnt really move it properly but as the pain subsided. The woman was pleased to hear that they could easily mend it for her, and now she just wanted to know more about the Emu.

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Sydney Podmore Kentigern MacFusty

  

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"He's more like an unruly child than you would think," Syd chuckled. He was amused by the young lady's appraisal of Stephen; nobody had every called him handsome before. Syd rather thought the emu owed her an apology.

He pulled out his wand after another moment, waiting for the potion to kick in. "Oh, like most of them, illegal acquisition. It's hard to get the right permits and permissions for exotic and magical creatures, but people don't care, they do it anyway. If the ministry cannot get them back where they belong, they often wind up here." He held his wand aloft, movement slow and practiced, an old mending spell he'd learned a long time ago. "Hold still." He requested as he added the incantation to the movement.

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Podmore Zoological Gardens - Irvingly

Tiger chuckled as the young woman spoke of preferring unruly children over the bird. That was something he knew a thing or five about, having been a more hands-on father than most, especially after the loss of his wife years ago.

"Some people rather do thing their limitless pockets can buy their way out of things, I suppose." Thankfully, Mister Podmore might have been of the wealthy ilk but was not one of the lot that would do such a thing.

  

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Dorothea laughed, "Hoping for forgiveness instead of permission, typical of some I know." she dealt with enough upper class types at Valenduris family events to have seen that sort of behaviour many times, hoping a problem would be solved after the fact with the application of wealth.

She held her hand steady as the mending spell took affect, it was the strangest feeling to feel her bone knit back together but there it was and after the magic subsided she wiggled her fingers. It felt stiff and aching but that was mostly in her head as the magic would have fixed what was broken.

"Thank you. I dont think I could handle being a muggle, imagine a silly little incident like that putting you out of action for weeks?" she laughed and squeezed her fist into a ball as if checking he hadnt missed a spot.

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Sydney Podmore Kentigern MacFusty

  

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Syd sort of shrugged, he could understand that too. Of course he had never quite been the kind to do so, but he often dealt with the after effects. "I would still rest it for a few days." Syd warned as he pulled a wrap from his healer's bag. This was a good excuse to check the contents of said bag and make sure it was stocked with enough supplies.

Moving to wrap the arm gently, but with enough security to provide stability, Syd added, "Keep it wrapped until week's end to keep it immobilized and elevated when you can. If a sling helps, I'm sure I can come up with something." That was not in the bag, but he could probably do a makeshift job if desired.

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I wasn't sure it was possible, but he's even more yummy, by MJ ♥
Podmore Zoological Gardens - Irvingly

"I think my usefulness here has rather ended a time ago," Tiger said with a chuckle now that the woman was properly all bandaged up and seemed none the worse for wear. "It was a pleasure to meet you, Miss, despite the less than desirable incident. And I shall see you next time, Mister Podmore." His goodbyes said, the large man made his leave.

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