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The circles under Tyler's eyes were dark as kohl, and he held himself stiffly as he plopped Smoochy's head on his desk, then turned to face the class.

"Gunpowder," he announced, changing the class topic because he knew he couldn't do nitroglycerin if he was less than at his best. "We're making it. We aren't in the Danger Shop today, so put your lab coats, goggles and gloves on, and, ladies, pull your hair back." He waited for his instructions to be followed before talking again.

"What you're going to do is combine sulfur, saltpeter and carbon. You're going to grind them all up, then mix them, four parts saltpeter to one of carbon -- your carbon is in charcoal briquettes -- and one of sulfur." He turned to scrawl 2 KNO3 + S + 3 C → K2S + N2 + 3 CO2 on the board. "That is the reaction behind it," he said, going on to explain the equation. "Once you've got the powder fine enough, show me and, if it looks okay, we can go outside and set off model rockets with it."

"This is the real stuff. People get hurt doing this. Any questions, comments, anything looks funny, please talk to me before you blow your hand off."

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"It looks like yesterday not only sucked but jumped you in a dark alley," Dean observed.

"My own personal vampire movie," Tyler claimed. "Nah. I look like a guy who's in some trouble in another world. There was this whole mistaken identity kidnapping thing. And then a helicopter crash. Oh, and I didn't sleep."

"I think I'll be okay, though."

"Been there, done that," Dean said with feeling. He paused. "Though there wasn't any helicopter crash."

"Alec's people kidnapped you?" Tyler asked, more interested. "I think I missed that part."

"It was after you left I think," Dean said. "Everything Alec's said about them? He was underplaying it. Still, I'm glad they grabbed me 'stead of him. What they did to me was bad enough, but if they'd got a hold of him they would've done a helluva lot worse."

"They only got around to threatening me with dissection," Tyler said, going even paler. "Glad you got out of it."

"Likewise." He paused. "But dude, helicopter crash?"

"Tail whacked into something and it went down spinning," Tyler explained, with illustrative hand gestures. "Dunno how I walked away. Most of the people on board didn't."

"See, this is why flying is bad," Dean declared.

"I'm staying away from helicopters," Tyler agreed. "So far they have a 100 percent crash rate for me."

Granted, he'd been on one.

"Sounds like a good policy to have. I'm definitely a have car, will drive kinda guy."

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