cafeteria | lunch time | tuesday | 29 september

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After his success with toast last week, Jonas had spent his free time trying his toaster out with a few other things. He'd found that bread worked well but crackers did not. That had been a gigantic mess and Jonas had felt sheepish enough to not touch the toaster for a few days.

But, he'd gotten over that and tried bread again, this time adding peanut butter once the bread had been toaster and packing it for a lunch. So, that's where he was now, prodding experimentally at the sandwich and wondering if he should eat the apple first. The apple was green, something he hadn't seen before but he'd been assured it was ripe.

Food examination and consumption was a lengthy process for Jonas but he enjoyed it. Food was a small but integral part of his memory that he was building.

[cafeteria's open, yep]

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"Grounding?" he asked, shaking his head. "I don't know what that is."

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Diana was just going to stare. "Dude, nice parents. It's when parents punish kids - usually by taking away some privilege or other or telling them to go to their room. Or sending them off to boarding school."

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"That wasn't a method used where I'm from," he explained, shaking his head and almost wincing at the description. "The problem was pointed out, the person apologized, was forgiven and if there was more needed, the parents talked about it with the child. Punishments weren't very prevalent in the Community."

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Diana was looking at Jonas as if he had grown a second head. "That's just - weird. How does the kid learn not to do something?" A lot of Diana's childhood very suddenly made sense.

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"Education," he provided, not really understanding what she meant. The Community's rules were followed and if they were broken, you knew it and you knew not to do it again. "We all knew the rules and that we were to follow them."