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Approval Needed || Tilden & Avitus || May 15th, 1979

Avitus checked his watch, and then lifted the bit of stationary his latest secretary had given him. Tilden Toots. Herbalist and potioneer. Young but supposedly very successful despite himself. He’d been tipped off some months earlier when he’d received several reports about a ‘walking’ plant. The eyewitness accounts had varied, most not entirely sure what the plant had been beyond ‘really big and all ‘viney’’. Whatever that meant.

He’d thought about just sending someone from the department, but he was curious. As a closet herbalist, he often found the plant experimentations far more interesting than he let on. He’d likely approved more plant experiment protocols than anything else, but then—animals were questionable when they were normal.

He eyed the address he’d been given and then sauntered up and knocked sharply. “Mr. Toots?” What kind of name was Toots anyway? I think I would have changed it as soon as I was legally able. He couldn’t imagine the kind of teasing the boy must have endured. At least he knew he and his group would have thoroughly enjoyed taunting anyone with a name like that.

Grateful he’d chosen to keep his garb simple since it was really starting to heat up as June approached, Avitus adjusted his waist coat while he waited, pushing back his hair in an absent gesture. When the door finally swung open he offered one of his more charming smiles, deciding to play nice for a bit before he decided how to handle to budding experimentalist.

“Tilden Toots?” He confirmed, blue eyes sweeping over the man critically before he continued, “My name is Avitus Carrow. I chair the committee for experimental charms, potions, and plants, and I think you can guess why I’m here, can’t you?”