Library, Thursday

[genesishero]

Evan had been on a roll in the library with his usual assistant duties until he'd found himself completely stymied by one of the books he'd been wanting to re-shelve. No matter where he looked, he just couldn't find an author's name on it anywhere. Frowning, he'd taken it back to the desk and started to read it, and had soon found himself sucked into a romance novel, of all things.

The first chapter had started out pretty normally. A guy telling a girl that he loved her with all his heart. Chapter two had been more of the same, some 'always be with you' talk that made Evan wrinkle his nose a little.

... Chapter three had him blushing.

Around the fourth chapter, when the main couple in the story broke up and then got back together in a matter of a few pages, Evan gave up trying to find a clue as to the identity of the mystery author completely.

That was going to bug him, now. He was going to spend the rest of his shift wondering who wrote The Book Of Love.

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Ethics [Thursday, February 14, 2nd period]

[sith_happened]

"Good morning," Anakin said, giving the students a slight smile as they entered. "In honor of Valentine's Day, I've given three of you a chocolate bar, three of you a box of candy, and two of you nothing at all. Please look under your desks to see which you've received."

He began pacing between the desks. "Some of you might be feeling some decidedly less than loving emotions my direction, or in the direction of the students with the larger amount of chocolate. Some of you might be pretending to care deeply about dental hygiene or ruining your lunchtime appetite in order to displace the feelings of envy you might have right now."

He paused. "Envy is a strange emotion. None of you had this chocolate when you came into the room, nor were you expecting any. Two of you will be walking out exactly the way you came in, and yet you might feel cheated. My questions to you today are: what do you think inside of us makes us envious of what other people have, even if we might have other gifts that offset what they've received? And from an ethical standpoint, how would you use this common human flaw to manipulate someone into giving you something you want?"