Oriel's face lit up as it always did when he started talkiong about the animals he wrote about. "The long-eared Jerboa," he said, signing as he spoke, finger spelling the name since there wasn't a sign for 'Jerboa' (not yet!) and even if there was, who would know it?
"It's a rodent, with these huge ears and long legs for jumping. They're really quite odd looking. In a cute way." When Oriel wrote about non-magical creatures, he tended to write about ones that were either endangered or relatively unheard of - or in some cases, both!
"Why stressful?" he asked as they turned a corner.