Main Campfire, Monday Evening

[puppy_fair]

Okay, so today had admittedly not been the most productive day that Zack had ever had. He'd skipped work today after having the meaning of Memorial Day explained to him by the gym teacher, and then he'd handwavily headed down to the graveyard. Angeal wasn't there, no, but it was about as close as he was going to get, and the time to just sit quietly and pay his respects had been good for him.

Now, to wrap the day up, he'd grabbed some marshmallows, bars of chocolate, and graham crackers, and he was working on getting a decently sized fire going.

Okay, so Zack's idea of a 'decently sized' fire was possibly not what most sane people considered to be one. He'd heaped the logs on kind of ridiculously high, and then he'd lit that sucker with a Fira spell. The result had singed his eyebrows a little at first, but hey, all the better for making s'mores, right?

... Once he blew out the marshmallow fire.

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[momslilassassin]

"But where's the fun in that?" Ben demanded.

[puppy_fair]

"There isn't any," Zack replied. "Which is exactly why we need a choconerf. Nerfobo? Giant space chicken-cow."

The mental image was cracking Zack up all over again.

"Who wouldn't want a herd of those running around? Really?"

[momslilassassin]

"They could roam," because of course they'd roam, "with the teal deer and the alots!" Ben chortled. "Run free, giant choconerfs! Or possibly fly?"

[puppy_fair]

"Flutter," Zack clarified. "Well, probably flutter. Some of the specially-bred types of chocobo can fly, but they're not half as easy to find as the run of the mill yellow ones, you know?"

... Which kind of made Zack want all the more to attempt to breed a giant golden choconerf.

[momslilassassin]

"We can start off with the easier breeds," Ben agreed.

[puppy_fair]

"There are different breeds of nerf, too?"

Zack was now trying to picture a white space cow with big black spots. And the space cow equivalent of a... yak, or something.

"I guess we'll have to work with what we can at first," he settled on. "I mean, before we can start working on developing the giant longhorn river choconerf."

[momslilassassin]

"Yeah, there are mountain nerfs and a wooly-nerf and the wildernerf and oh God I wish I was kidding," Ben said, nodding. "They all smell pretty bad, but they're very tasty."

[puppy_fair]

Oooh, possible compatibility had been spotted!

"We have mountain chocobos, too," Zack announced, thrilled with this revelation, yes. "They're green, and they're bred to handle rough terrain. A mountain choconerf would be kinda awesome."

[momslilassassin]

"That would be completely astral," Ben said. He'd clearly missed his calling as a mad scientist.

[puppy_fair]

Zack had met a few mad scientists back home, by now. The position was totally overrated, really.

"I guess the real trick from there would be figuring out how in the world to get them to breed."

[momslilassassin]

"I suppose romantic music and dinner wouldn't work," Ben said thoughtfully.

[puppy_fair]

"I guess that depends entirely on how much nerfs appreciate chocolate and flowers," Zack pointed out, grinning a little. "And chocobos won't breed unless you feed them nuts. So we'd probably want one of the really good-quality ones..."

Overthinking this. Yep.

[momslilassassin]

"I should ask Aunt Leia about this stuff," Ben mused. "Nerfs are from Alderaan originally."

[puppy_fair]

"And so's she?" Zack was guessing, mostly. At least it was a fairly educated guess! "Was she into agriculture, at all?"

Because that would be so very helpful! Right?

[momslilassassin]

Only in the part where she could call someone a nerf-herder...

"She's a princess," Ben said, "so she should know, right?"

That's some mighty fine logic there, Ben.

[puppy_fair]

"I don't see why not!"

Zack really didn't know many princesses. Unless Yuffie counted. And Yuffie, so far as he could tell, had spent a lot of time running around and trying to kick SOLDIERs in the shins, in her childhood. So why wouldn't Leia know about space cows?

"It's worth asking about, anyhow!"

[momslilassassin]

"I will the next time I see her," Ben decided.

[puppy_fair]

"Awesome," Zack laughed. "Let me know how that goes!"