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Byron actually walks into the classroom today and lets the students settle down.

"Greetings students! I trust you all had an... eventful weekend. Today we will discuss the sacred Riddle Game. No doubt most of you have heard or read about the Greek sphinx, who asks a riddle of all who pass by. Eating the ones who are unable to answer her riddle and throwing herself off her perch when a correct answer is given. Likewise the sanctity of the Riddle game is touched upon in more recent popular fiction such as with the character 'Gag' in There And Back Again and 'Mona the Monorail' in the Dim Highrise series. More traditional stories, such as Rumplestiltskin, hint to us that creatures which seem to be the embodiment of chaos are actually bound by a few, very ridged, laws. Esoteric though they may be to our minds."

Optional reading about riddles is passed out.

"In each case, the protagonist and the antagonist engage in a Riddle Game and the fact that the game is still ongoing keeps the antagonist from attacking. Since they don't dare violate the sanctity of the Riddle Game. This can be instrumental in defeating a malevolent creature, or at least buy you some time.

But it helps to be good at riddles.

So today, I would like you to pair up and have a riddle game of your own. We're going to have a little tournament. Winners of the first round will report to me and I will pair you off for the second round, and so on, the last student will face me."

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Tannim was available for riddling. Eager, even. He may have read the riddle scene in There and Back Again a few too many times.

After a quick look around the room, Will headed over to the first seemingly free person she spotted.

"Got a partner yet?" she asked cheerily.

"Nope," Tannim said. "I'm Tannim."

"I'm Will," she answered. "I guess we haven't been formally introduced before. Do you want to start, or should I?"

"I will," Tannim said. He tried to recall some of the riddles he'd memorized years ago and said,

"This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down."

She thought that over for a minute before answering. It sure sounded really poetic. "That'd be time, wouldn't it? Everything wears down over time, and every living thing has to die eventually. SO that's what I'm going with: time."

"Right," Tannim nodded.

"My go." Will racked her brain for a riddle that she hadn't picked up out of one of those Fun Jokes and Riddles for Kids books she'd had when she was little, but nothing else came to mind. Drat. Aw well, better go with one of those.

"There's something that's weightless, but you can see it. If you put it in a bucket, and it'll make the bucket lighter. What is it?"

Tannim pondered this one. His first thought was "air," but air wouldn't be visible. What would make the bucket lighter still be - oh! "A hole?" he asked.

"Yep! That's right!" she replied.

"Okay," Tannim thought. "What appears once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?"

"Ah, M!" Will answered. Had that one been in the kiddie books? Sounded like it might have? "The letter, not the teacher," she quickly added.

D.A.M.M. - Monday First Period - "Riddle Me This"

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