fandomhigh | Ethics [Thursday, September 13]

"Today we discuss lying," Anakin said as he closed the classroom door precisely on time. "Everyone lies. 'Of course that doesn't make your butt look big.' 'You like her, I like her.' 'I'm totally okay with you moving on.' 'Everything's fine, why do you ask?' It's how the world goes around because no one wants to be trapped in a conversation where someone whines at you for hours on end about how awful their life is."

He looked around the room. "Trust me. Everyone's life is terrible. They're just not telling you about it. Be grateful."

He reached onto his desk for a piece of paper. "Today we're conducting an exercise to see how well you pass this particular social ritual, then we'll discuss whether you think it is necessary. We're playing two truths and a lie. I'll tell you three things about myself and you have to decide which one is the falsehood. Then you'll all tell three things and we'll see how well you can either read each other or keep things hidden."

He gave them a small smile. "I'm very good at this." He schooled his face to absolute neutrality, put his mental blocks up to bar the Jedi in the room from gaining an advantage, then recited: "I've never been beaten in one-on-one space flight combat. I'm not afraid of anything. I named my children after people I met in Fandom." His eyes challenged them to call him out. "Who's next?"

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"I believe so," Irulan smiled wryly, "I think it was Wensicia's doing that I ended up 'Dealing with the Opposite Sex' class. My sister has a long memory."

"It wasn't useful, just humiliating?" River felt a little sorry for Irulan. Simon would never do something like that to her. She was lucky.

"I have to admit my order, the Bene Gesserit, has classes similar to Professor Mal Doran's. I was failing in that class, so in a way I suppose my sister was trying to help me too." She paused then added, "Although I believe that was not the foremost thing in her mind when she signed me up."

"Have to trust that someone will find you attractive for that game to be entertaining," River replied quietly. It wasn't exactly the subject of this class.

"Yes," Irulan said, then it occured to Irulan if River meant the class or her family dynamics. If River meant family dynamics Irulan didn't quite know how to explain the Machiavellian complexity of her family.

"Meant the game of dealing with the opposite sex, but it applies also to families," she replied. What she sensed of Irulan's family didn't make her want to know more.

"Oh, you meant the class," Irulan said, relieved, then thought, "it wasn't all that embarassing, I realized even if I was mortified when Ja-- uh, there were boys there. Although my discussions with Jeffrey were both amusing and confusing?"

River's face lit up. "Jeff is usually amusing and confusing. And I assume he had issues with the subject of the class." She conciously avoided the subject of Jack.

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