Fur, Feathers, and Scales: The Biology of Domestication, Thursday, Period 2 [10/18].

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Sidon was having quite the week, it would seem, which was nice, as he felt he could easily say the same about the last week. In addition to being a good big brother by taking care of Norman, he now also got to take his duties as a teacher's assistant to the next level by running Zack's class today! To say that he was excited would be, of course, an understatement, and he hoped he did a good job, especially considering that there hadn't been any lesson plans for him and he was going to make something up on the spot.

Naturally, it would have made sense to do something on the Scales side of the class, something with fish or maybe take inspiration from Norman and do something with crabs.

But of course that wasn't what he was going to do.

"Cuccos!"

Chickens, Sidon. They were called chickens. And he had gathered them all up from the coop on the roof of the shelter into a crate, brought them to the classroom, opened up the crate and let them out into the world and onto the class, chuckling proudly.

"Greetings, everyone! Zack is, unfortunately, unable to make it to class today on account of him having fur and paws that he's not quite accustomed to having, and so I hope you'll not be too disappointed that I shall be stepping up to teach the class in his place. And I thought it would be fun if we talked about these little feathered friends, cuccos," chickens, Sidon, "who we have a special little coop for and everything over at the shelter. According to my research, cuccos," chickens, Sidon, if you researched this, you should know this!, "are one of the most wide-spread and domesticated animals in the world! There are more cuccos," chickens, "in the world than any other bird of domesticated fowl! Isn't that amazing? Most people seem to raise them for food and sustenance, as their meat is very popular, as are their eggs. They are relatively easy to care for and make for excellent pets! Sometimes, they can get a little temperamental or violent, especially the males, called roosters," sure, you get roosters right, Sidon, but still not chickens??, "but these ones are all quite lovely and used to people, so you should have no trouble at all, as long as you're kind and good, which I know you all will be.

"I've brought some food for them if you'd like to feed them, but I figured we could just spend the class getting to know all these feathered friends! And if there are any questions, I shall try my very best to answer them!"

Team! Synergy! [Thursday, 1st Period)

[wrongkindofsith]

There was a projector at the front of the class, and your teachers looked beat, which could mean only one thing. Movie day!

"SO today you're watching..." Cara looked at the DVD case. "...'Getting Ahead With Teamwork.'"

"Where it's gonna valuable lessons on working as a team to get ahead," Magnus explained. Yeah.

And any other week that's exactly the kind of terrible edutainment film they'd be watching. This week, however, there'd been an unfortunate mix up with discs and cases, and well, it still involved teamwork?

"See, I told you that taking your shirt off to flex on 'em was part of teamwo--" That train of thought was immediately derailed as the video continued. "Oh. Oh, it's a porno."

He then continued in a sort of high pitched stage whisper, "Did we... did we mean to show this?"

"It was in with the class materials." Look, given the nature of various Mord'Sith bonding activities, Cara wasn't necessarily the best judge of this.

Magnus had many concerns both for this school and his buddy Cara right now. "Yeah, and we have a hard rule against finding out what's past the explicit rating on iTunes," he said, going to shut the movie off. "How about we... sit and think really hard about what we think the real movie showed."

It had just started getting interesting, Magnus. "I'm sure they're already thinking hard."

Cara, no.

"No imnuendos!" It was Merle and the plants all over again!

"Fine, it'll be a very hands off class, then." CARA, NO

And it was a struggle for Magnus to not giggle at that. A real struggle. "Okay, that was a good one."

Cara thought about not saying it, she really did, but..."That's what she said."

And that's what set him off on a laughing fit as he held up a hand for a high-five. Sorry, class?

Sorry, not sorry in Cara's case. So worth it.