fandomhigh | Ethics [Tuesday, September 9, 2nd period]

"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 any psychics in the room from gaining an advantage, then recited: "During a war at home I was known as 'The Hero Without Fear.' I've been married twice. I've never been beaten in one-on-one lightsaber combat." His eyes challenged them to call him out. "Who's next?"

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Well, everyone could make art, and Jan had told her about losing his memory. "Unicorns don't jump?"

Jan canted his ears in amusement. "We jump, we jump very well."

Seriously? "Does that mean you can't make art?"

"It's not the reason I cannot make art, but yes," he replied, "I cannot make pictures." He only had the most tenuous of grasps on the concept of pictures.

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Molly still wasn't sure Jan was right, since art was kind of in the eye of the beholder, but she'd argue it later. "This means you win."

Jan snorted in confusion. "But it is not a contest."

"Well, it maybe is a little bit? To see if you're a better liar than we are guessers?" Molly didn't see the harm in lying for class and it was possible some of the lesson was lost on her.

"I am not a better liar," Jan said, tilting his ears at her. "But you were thinking in human terms, which is why you guessed wrongly."

"What do you mean?"

"Humans can make pictures," he said slowly, working it through. "And so you couldn't easily imagine someone who cannot." His ears flicked, forward and back. "So when I said I could make art, it was simple for you to believe it."

"Oh, no. I think there's just more to art than making pictures," she shrugged. "I don't know you well enough yet, but art doesn't seem that tough to make. Good art might be harder."

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