fandomhigh | Ethics [Tuesday, November 25]

Today the desks in Anakin's classroom had been pushed along the walls and replaced with cushy pillows and blankets. There was a giant table in the front of the room creaking with the weight of Thanksgiving treats. Fear not--it was all ordered in. Anakin wasn't a fan of ovens.

"Today we talk about sloth," Anakin said, holding himself even more carefully and clearly uncomfortable with the very idea of relaxing. The students were certainly not expected to be held to the same standard. "Originally, sloth was described as 'an uneasiness of the mind'," Anakin continued. "Apathy. Melancholy. Joylessness. And importantly, the decision not to do anything about it."

He shrugged. "The modern view understands that the mind is slightly more complicated than that and sometimes it is impossible to will yourself not to be sad. Instead, this sin focuses on the failure to utilize your talents and gifts."

He gestured at the table. "This Thursday, there is a holiday celebrating sloth--or at least the lethargy that comes from overeating. Millions of people in this country will spend time ignoring their relatives and watching football. It's a national holiday." He shrugged again. "I don't pretend to understand it."

He lit his lightsaber and began slicing the turkey, mostly because he would never, ever, ever get away with that at the Thanksgiving he'd be going to. "So today, embrace your inner sloth and eat until you're ready to take a nap. But first find a fellow student, tell them one of your talents--and no one is allowed to cop out and say they don't have one--and how you use it here at school."

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"but you were born human," Ella said gently, then paused. "Weren't you?"

"Was," Firekeeper admitted reluctantly. "Was fire. Human parents die, mother ask wolves to be taking care of me."

"I'm sorry," Ella said. "My mother died, but that was only a year and a bit ago."

"Am sorry too," Firekeeper offered, unsure if that was the right thing to say. Condolences weren't exactly something she had a lot of experience with. "Am not really remembering my human parents, I was so small when it happen. But you- remember your mother?"

Ella nodded. "She and our housekeeper raised me, really, my father was always traveling. She was a wonderful lady."

"Is good, then, that you are here to remember," Firekeeper said with a small smile. "She deserve remembering."

"She does," Ella agreed, then glanced at the clock. "We still haven't discussed our talents, you know."

Firekeeper followed Ella's gaze. Not that she could actually read the clock, but she got the hint. She frowned, trying to think of a talent she had. The conversation with Ben last night came to mind.

"Being wolf is not talent," she said finally. "But being wolf and knowing how humans speak is making it possible for me to tell humans how beasts is thinking." It was most definitely not the other way around, since as far as she was concerned, the language of beasts was her native one.

"Could you teach me to speak wolf?" Ella asked. "Because that's my talent -- languages. Usually I can learn anything I hear."

"Could try," Firekeeper offered. "Language of beasts is not just hearing, though. Is many things- scent, position of tail..." it gave her a headache to think too hard about how she managed without a proper tail, so generally she avoided thinking about it.

"I'd try to learn, if you'd try to teach," Ella said. "I've learned nonhuman languages before." Giant totally counted.

"Will try, then," Firekeeper said with a firm nod. Especially since Ella's request didn't involve kidnapping, unlike the last group of people who'd wanted her to teach them. "Blind Seer will help." She smirked at the wolf currently sprawled on the floor beside her desk.

"Thank you, Blind Seer," Ella told the wolf with a grin. She wasn't sure she could learn wolf, but trying promised to be fun.

[OOC: Night! I had fun with this.]

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