I had a good time describing various creatures that my main character is seeing for the first time in a sort of magical zoo. They're not terribly important to the plot, but they're a big part of the world, and it was fun to explore that a little bit.
Two brownies -- rare finds outside of Scotland -- had been placed side-by-side. One was given porridge on a regular basis and the other was not. Hannah marveled at how they could even be considered the same creature -- the yowling, spitting, snarling ball of fur to the left was nothing like its neighbor, who was happily sweeping up a dust bunny it had found in the corner of its cage.
A few steps onward, they spotted a vampire, curled up in its bat form and hanging from the ceiling of its enormous enclosure, which was brightly lit from all sides with ultraviolet lightbulbs. A plaque told them that the vampire had become humanoid only once during its captivity, and that was to murder a large rat that had managed to burrow into its space. Connor tapped on the glass and tried to tempt it with a scratch he’d received in P.E. a few days before. The vampire yawned and wrapped its wings more tightly around itself.