fandomhigh | Ethics [Tuesday, September 2, 2nd period]

Anakin walked into his classroom precisely on time and gave the students assembled there an appraising glance.

Except for how his glance lingered on a couple of faces (and a unicorn, and a...droid) as his eyes widened slightly, it wasn't possible to tell what he thought of them.

"I'm Master Skywalker," he said in a voice that was intended to carry, "this is Ethics, and we're going to skip the introductions--I'll figure out who you are--and move straight to our first discussion."

He paced around the room, cloak flaring out behind him, as he handed out the syllabus. "Today's topic," he said. "Self sacrifice: knowing the difference between saving people and being a pretentious twit."

"Any time I ask a a group of people what they would do to save someone they love, they all blither on about how they would set the world on fire, lie, cheat, steal, kill, die, et cetera, et cetera. I've been at this school too long to believe that half of you haven't already been put into this situation and I'm in no mood to hear adolescent ramblings about how wonderful you were or might hypothetically be. We're going to ground it in reality.

"Last summer there was a woman who was in charge of this school. She had been placed in power legitimately, was allowed to punish in accordance with that power, and began pushing the boundaries of her authority almost immediately. She called students to her office, punished them for slights genuine or imagined, and began escalating the severity and frequency of her punishments, going over the line into what was no longer acceptable."

Anakin crossed his arms over his chest, the scars across his face very evident in the light coming through the window. "It eventually took a team of highly qualified adults to take her out. Today's topic: when do you draw the line? When do you admit to yourself that a problem cannot be solved, that to sacrifice yourself isn't a statement, it's merely pointless? How long does it take for you to check your ego?"

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"You can't read English?" he asked.

"English?" Firekeeper frowned. "Is... language we speak now?" she guessed.

Anakin nodded. "It is."

"Is called Pellish, back where I is coming from. I speak it... two turnings of seasons now?"

"You're doing very, very well, then," Anakin praised. "It's called Basic where I'm from and the written form is very different than here."

"Wolves speak very different," Firekeeper shrugged. "But, I learn, because humans seemed interesting. Is only reading part I cannot-"

"Would not," Blind Seer interjected. Firekeeper just shoved him with her foot, tired of his incessant nagging on that particular subject.

"-do. Francine say, she maybe can teach this thing, with time. But I see many people writing when you speaked, and am wondering- is this doing..." she floundered a bit, looking for the right word, "needed?"

"Not necessarily," Anakin replied. "Many students take notes either to remember things I said or to keep busy because they think it means I won't call on them later."

Firekeeper snorted at the last part of Anakin's statement. "Humans is strange," she said.

"I won't disagree," he said, smiling.

Firekeeper gave a quick bow, and Blind Seer even offered one of his own. "Thank you," she said. "Is good to know I can do without this take-notes. Perhaps when I learned how, I do, but now I just remember."

"As long as you're paying attention, I'm happy," Anakin said.

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