@Aisling "Oh, that'd be a pretty big ark," Dracula said. "There are millions of different animals here on Earth, and who knows how many animals live on other planets?"

@CountDracula

"Oh!....Even if they are tiny animals, the ark would be too big to buy..... Maybe a hundred animals? Like 1 or 2 or 3 of each kind of animal. Like maybe 2 or 3 of the wild cats, monkeys, elephants, zebras and like that. How big of an ark would I need then?" Fiona asked.

@Aisling "Still pretty big, but not as big as one for every kind of animal in the world," Dracula answered. "Just think of how much room an elephant or a whale would need."

@CountDracula
"Whales and other water creatures can live in the water and don't need to live on an ark if there is another great flood. Only land animals and flying animals will live on the ark." Fiona spoke calmly as she explained to Count Dracula.

@Aisling "That's a good point, but you'd still need space for the elephants and the giraffes," Dracula said, silently hoping that no paparazzo heard him claim that a whale would need to be aboard the ark.

@CountDracula

Fiona thought very hard to think of an answer and finally came up with
"Well there are tiny animals too like mice and bugs. So I think that with the amount of tiny animals, I could have 2 elephants and 2 giraffes."

By this time Mystique was talking to a handsome stranger in the lounge. He was one of the professors in archaeology department.

@Aisling "Yes, that might work," Dracula answered. "Did you know that for every human being on this Earth, there literally is a ton of insects?"

@CountDracula

"No wonder I get bit sometimes...... I think that it would work too. Now then I want to get miniature creatures and an ark as big as I need....I'd need stuff like hay, oats, carrots and other veggies. Bird seed and suet as well. Some animals will need meat so I guess they will have to eat fish......" Fiona began to list off various items that she would need.

After a bit and an exchange of phone numbers, Mystique hurried back to the monkeys.
"I hope that you didn't miss me too much."

@Aisling "I think I've got an idea," Mihnea, who had joined them, said. "An ark could be difficult, but there are things that help animals to survive: Bird boxes, bat boxes, nesting boxes, holding devices for the storks' nests, and so-called insect hotels. Insect hotels are like wooden boxes that you put up in the garden. They have got different shelves with different things in them, so that lots of kinds of insects can live in them. We could make them together, one or two of each. What would you think of that?"

@CountDracula

"You dance all of the time. And no one knows when a flood might happen, you know. if we aren't ready then everyone will get drowned." Fiona spoke.
"But we could make bug boxes and bird boxes and bat boxes. Each one can have only 1 stall. We need to find some unicorns where ever they are hiding." Fiona spoke as if she was an authority on the subject.

Mystique came into the middle of the conversation and almost laughed.
"Well, at the moment dear, we don't have to worry about it. But we can think and design the ark one of these days. How would you like to go to an excavation site?" Mystique asked.

"The flood might might come while we are gone. Not today but next year or the next year or the next year. It takes forever to build a HUUUUUUGE boat like an ark." Fiona protested.

"But we might learn how to take care of animals in the dessert. That would be important, wouldn't it?" Mystique asked.

Fiona thought for a minute then
"I guess that would be good to know cause we want to take good care of them."

@Aisling Dracula smiled a bit.
"A child's logic," Vladislaus said. "When Vladi was little, we drove by a church together with his older brothers, Vlad and Mircea. On top of it were a crucifix and a weathercock. Vladi stated, 'The cross stands for Jesus.' 'Right. And what does the cock stand for?' Mircea asked for fun. Vladi: 'God likes crowing!'"

@CountDracula

"That was cute." Mystique spoke with a soft chuckle.
"Have you ever been on an expedition? There was a professor in the members lounge and spoke to me about it. He has several children that will be going with him, including a four year old. Four,seven, eleven and fourteen are the ages of his children."

@Aisling "Not exactly an expedition, but I've travelled almost the whole world by foot in the 200 years that I was homeless," Vladislaus told. Despite Australia. I've only been to Australia in the 1970s."

@CountDracula

"Would you like to go on one? And try your hand at a dig? I think that it would be a good education for the children." Mystique spoke thoughtfully.

@Aisling "It would be interesting for sure, but it could be a problem," Dracula informed. "When you are the head of a state, you never have a day off. You need to make sure that you can be home within no time at all, especially when your country is in a war, like Romania is. I need to coordinate my army, and so does Mihnea from time to time. He's the second man in the state."

Ioan turned silent. "My wife died in an expedition... she was an archeologist specialized on Latin America, and we were in the Brazilian jungle. I had joined her on that expedition to see what she was doing all day long, but after two weeks, she disappeared... they found her body cut into pieces..."

@CountDracula

"I understand. Then I think that I just might keep the name and think on it long and hard...... I am not sure of going with a complete stranger to a foreign country." Mystique spoke calmly and with a smile.

@Aisling "I'll soon go to India for a week, and then to Japan for another week. You can join me if you like," Vladislaus offered.

@CountDracula

"I might just do that. Do you have an idea of what you are going to do and what there is for Fiona to do and Toma if he is going?" Mystique asked.

@Aisling "In India, I'll visit friends in a village. I'm sure they won't mind it if you joined. They've got children who are in Fiona's age. It'll be at the border to Nepal, and I'll spend a day in Nepal as well. And in Japan, I'll visit the cloister I used to live in," Vladislaus answered. "I'm sure it'll be interesting for Fiona. Toma won't be able to go, since they don't have electricity in that village, and he needs his medical supplies. But I visit them regularly, so I'm sure he'll be able to join me one day."

@CountDracula

"That would be very interesting. Fiona and I just might join you. I'll need to get Fiona a passport and visa. I need to go to the hospital and see about Naureene and the babies." Mystique spoke.