Uniquely Qualified

[beautyrest]

🧙 WHO: Princess Aurora, her many animal friends, and you!
⚔️️ WHAT: Aurora is going to help with some of the fae and clean up after the storm
🕒 WHEN: Early January
🗺️ WHERE: All over
⚠️ WARNINGS: None I can readily think of



A. A Knocking We Will Go:

There was, perhaps, some weird twist of fate that Aurora had just been explaining fae, brownies amongst them, and not even a few weeks later, would need to help get rid of them.

Still, she comes up to the next address that was begging for assistance, her eagle owl comfortably sitting on her shoulder, though his size and weight must have surely been uncomfortable, but Aurora gave no indication of pain.

She looked up when she heard someone come towards her, about to knock on the door and paused.

"Oh, is this your home?" she asked, smiling.


B. After the Storm:

Aurora was no stranger to hard work and getting your hands dirty. She had lived her life as a peasant in the woods. Literally, everything was dependent on her and her aunts doing things for themselves from chopping wood for the winter, hatching the roof from leaks, gathering water, and everything else in between.

So something as simple as removing debris and helping with a mess was not that difficult a task.

The princess was currently on top of a roof along with several birds, squirrels, and even a raccoon or two as they were getting large branches from felled trees off the shingles.

As she was headed back to the ladder that had let her up there, though, unfortunately, it had been blown down by the wind.

So as you are going about your day, you may notice a group of animals trying to get a ladder out of the snow and back up against the wall or, you may hear yourself being called to from above.

"Oh! Excuse me, could I trouble you for but a moment?"

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[beautyrest]

"Harry, well, hello again," she smiled. "It is lovely to see you. I think teaming up would be a masterful plan." She turned back to the door.

"Well, let us deal with the matter," her own familiar, the giant eagle owl let out a screech. "Yes, I quite agree. We cannot make headway by standing outside. Shall we, Harry?" she giggled, opening the door after the knock.

Even just as she entered, a teacup came flying at the wall near the door, smashing against it before there was endless giggling from the creatures in the house. There was another screech from the owl and he slapped his wings, his wingspan longer than Aurora was tall. Some objects and paintings on the walls shook.

"My, that was a close one."

[phoenixwiz]

“Sure thing, Aurora, let’s go in and see what is going on inside,” Harry agrees as they enter the house.

While he knows that there is going to be dust bunnies and brownies to deal with, he was not expecting a painting to be thrown at his direction. He would have gotten injuries from it if he hadn’t stop it on its tracks by freezing its trajectory and putting it down to the floor.

“Yeah, that is really close, these guys sure like to get rowdy at times,” he tells her while Rose shakes in nervous concern.

[beautyrest]

"Their behavior is a bit more than unacceptable, someone can get hurt. Perhaps, though, I can lure them out, and you can shoo them out the door?"

[phoenixwiz]

“Sounds like a good plan already, I am in,” Harry is more than happy to go with Aurora’s plan to tackle the dust bunny invasion, “This should be very easy to accomplish, right?”

[beautyrest]

"Let us hope these dust bunnies act like regular bunnies," they would divide and conquer. Dust bunnies first, and then the brownies.

Aurora took a deep breath and the Eagle Owl merely smiled, or looked to be smiling, as much as an owl could.

She began to sing. There were no words to the song, but she put her powers into it, calling out to the little creatures like she would anything else, trying to summon them to her.

Her voice rang through the room and multiple dust bunnies began, entrance in a way, to hop over to Aurora, gathering around her feet.

[phoenixwiz]

Wow, there are so many of these dusty bunnies in this house! Harry’s jaws drop in shock at the amount of dust bunnies that are attracted to Aurora’s singing. That girl is doing her magic on point.

Rose squeaks to her master that they better get these things leaving at any moment once Aurora is done, so Harry snaps out of his initial reaction and readies himself to escort these bunnies out of the house.

[beautyrest]

Aurora moved out of the doorway, moving the dust bunnies about in a circle her owl throwing a stray bunny into the lot of them if it was not willing to join.

She made a gesture to Harry, trying to signal him that she was about to end the song.

[phoenixwiz]

Harry nods in return as he tries carefully to move the dust bunnies towards the doorway by levitating the circle of them to the sky with the help of his hands lifting up to the sky and carefully walks towards the doorway to lead them outside.

[beautyrest]

As soon as they were outside, Aurora stopped the song and immediately slammed the door close, letting out a soft sigh of relief.

"Well, let's hope that was all the dust bunnies." She smiled. "Now comes the much harder part."

[phoenixwiz]

Harry does a quick count on the dust bunnies and, yep, that’s all of them accounted for. That is a close one, which means that the next task at hand is rounding up the brownies before they can cause more chaos.

“Well, rounding up and escorting those bunnies was a lot faster than I originally thought, too,” he notes as they get back inside the house and inspect it for any holes or pathways the brownies might be at, “With the current mood the brownies are in now, we might need to think more creatively and find their hiding spots quickly.”

[beautyrest]

"Perhaps we simply make a good team," she giggled, lightly nudging his shoulder with hers. "Hmm... have you any thoughts on how we might be able to trick them?"

[phoenixwiz]

Beats him, he hasn’t thought of one right now. The knocking behind the walls keeps on persisting and it could last for who knows how long. However, Harry does have a simple tracking solution at hand.

“Hey Aurora, maybe I can move the furniture around to find whatever holes they may have made on the walls and you can ask your animal friends to find the ones where the brownies are hiding at,” he proposes the plan to Aurora, it might be simple, but they have to start from somewhere to catch those pesky brownies.

[beautyrest]

"I shall ask them." Aurora lifted up several chipmunks, squirrels, and a few mice, speaking softly to them. They looked at one another and gave reluctant nods, if Harry were paying close attention, he might see them arguing before the mouse steps forward.

"Our brave little mouse shall go."

[phoenixwiz]

Oh yes, he did see the animals having an argument on who should brownie finding before the little mouse steps. Then Harry begins to move the furniture around through kinetic magic to find holes on the wall for the brave little mouse to scamper into to find the brownies’ location.

Luckily as he is searching, he finds a couple of mouse size holes on the walls after moving the furniture from the walls. The little mouse quickly gets to work, zipping into the holes as it begins to look for the location of where the brownies are hiding at.

[beautyrest]

As the mouse is let down onto the floor, the squirrel and chipmunk are not idle. They make their way up the beams into the exposed rafters of the ceiling, looking for entrances there.

Aurora moves close to the wall, listening. There are some loud squeaks and she points to the wall perpendicular to them, putting a finger to her lips so as to not let the brownies on to their new knowledge.

[phoenixwiz]

Harry is on standby, waiting for any new developments on the brownie search, when Aurora alerts him to the squeaks from the walls. So he walks up to the wall and presses his left ear to hear the noises.

At the same time, he doesn’t try to talk too much that would inform the brownies of any new information they might have the moment he sees Aurora’s signal not to say anything. What is the reason why the brownies and dust bunnies are making a ruckus in the houses?

[beautyrest]

When Harry goes to listen, there will be whispers and giggles and even a banging, though soft, in various places.

"I am not sure I can lure them out with singing," she offered. "We could try naming them, or even clothing them, perhaps. That will sometimes cause them to leave."

[phoenixwiz]

“We can try those suggestions out to get those brownies out of the walls and see what happens next,” Harry nods in return after hearing giggling and whispers for a few minutes, “They do say that leaving gifts to brownies usually does the trick. I once left some socks for an house elf friend of mine back home, although he wasn’t a brownie.”

[beautyrest]

"I hope the residents of this home do not mind my checking the kitchen for milk and honey. I'll be right back, Harry."

She reached out and gave his arm a squeeze before she looked about and her animal friends gestured for her to follow them and she disappeared in the direction of the kitchen.

[phoenixwiz]

Harry nods back in return as Aurora and her animal friends head for the kitchen to find milk and honey for the brownies. Rose squeaks to him softly, wondering how they started the whole house mess antics; Harry shares those same sentiments as she is. Still, everyone has to be patient and try to find a way to let those brownies come out.

He continues to hear plenty of giggles from the walls, though he didn’t say a single word as he listens to them intently and not losing any concentration, with Rose joining in the listening sessions as they wait for Aurora to come back from her kitchen search.

[beautyrest]

Aurora does not take too long. In her hands is a large bowl of milk and her owl familiar has a jar of honey in his talons while the other holds the wooden dipper in the other.

She sets the milk in the middle of the floor and takes the jar of honey and dipper. From the hole in the floor to the bowl, she lays out a thin trail of honey.

They all hear the giggling from the brownies stop and pause and Aurora pulls Harry away from the wall, standing parallel to it so that if the brownies came out, she and Harry would not be seen.

[phoenixwiz]

With the two of them out of the way from the walls, Harry watches at the holes on the wall, waiting patiently for something to happen. It is going to take a while to wait for them to come out of those holes but he is hoping for the best.

As they both waited out, Harry could hear something from the wall holes, could it be the brownies coming out to see what they have just received?

[beautyrest]

A single long nose comes out from the hole, then a small head attached to it with even larger ears. The long nose sniffed at the honey and a little creature came out. It shuffled along the path of honey, sniffing all the while at the honey until it reached the milk.

Then it squealed and hurried back to the hole. There was whispering and suddenly one after another came out of the hole. Some dipped long fingers into the honey to lap it up until they got to the milk.

Aurora leaned over to Harry and whispered softly in his ear.

"Now would be a good time to let them and the milk be floated out the door, don't you think?"

[phoenixwiz]

“Yeah, I could try to get them floating out of here, Aurora,” Harry replies swiftly as he attempts to start on levitating the brownies and milk outside as much as possible.

Without losing a sweat and his concentration, he begins to slowly levitate the brownies and milk off the ground and escort them out to the door and onto the front lawn while making sure he doesn’t fall off or trip on his way out. Hopefully the brownies don’t mind as they focus on the milk.

[beautyrest]

By the time Harry has floated them out the door, several of the songbirds have slammed the door behind them. With the door closed, once the brownies finished their treat, they screamed out in frustration but ultimately did not come back in. She let out a sigh of relief and then smiled, reaching out to squeeze Harry's hands.

"We did it, Harry!"