fandomhigh | Comparative Religions, Monday, Period 3, Class #1

As the students entered, Vala was perched on top of her desk (yes, she had a desk!), and looking over her notes and class lists. Once they were seated, she began,

"Good morning, everyone. For those of you who don't know me already, my name is Vala Mal Doran. Please feel free to call me Vala, or Professor Mal Doran if that makes you more comfortable."

"This class is about different religions," she explained, "and the first half of the class will focus on strictly the Earthen religions. The second half will be broader in scope and expand our study to inter-planetary religions. The only thing I ask--in light of the fact that more bloody wars have been fought over religion than anything else in human history--is that you have respect for the teachings of the guest speakers, and of the other students in this class. You don't have to agree, and I don't expect you to convert to their religion, but I won't tolerate any insults or baiting on the subject. With any luck, we'll all come out of this with a better understanding of religion."

"Today's class will be relatively simple--introduce yourselves, explain why you're taking this class, and explain your religion in broad language, if you have one. If you don't, explain why you don't. There are no penalties for not having one, by the way."

"As far as food and drink are concerned," she added, "I don't make enough money to feed you all every week, but you should bring whatever you want that you've provided for yourself."

She pointed to a student at random. "Okay, go ahead."

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"What is?"

Simple enough, and better than Adah making herself all panicked about her own future.

Going home and restarting the Jedi Order, Luke wrote. Right now, I'm pretty much it.

No, Adah didn't know what that was, and she spent a good deal of time looking at the words and thinking about them. She liked that 'Order' was one of them; Order she liked, and she played around with Jedi a little. Jedi. Idej. I Dej. Je Di. and liked how it gave her images and thoughts of places still exotic to her that the Congo hadn't ruined.

"That sounds very ambitious. Restarting can be harder than starting. Motion stops, decides motion was too much work, does not want to work again."

Luke nodded. And people back home had done a pretty thorough job trying to make sure we didn't get started again. I'm just more stubborn than they were.

Adah grinned wryly at Luke's note, and considered leaving it there. Stubborn was a good place to stop; she was a Price, after all, and they were stubborn about stubbornly stopping at the point where their stubbornness might surface.

But, after a moment without a response, her mind shifted slightly, regretfully, a bit ashamed that she didn't think of it at first. The next note would be accompanied by a small smile, hopefully sincere, although Adah could not always trust her expressions.

"Good luck."

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