fandomhigh | Ethics [Tuesday, January 12, 2nd period]

"Today we discuss lying," Anakin said as he closed the classroom door precisely on time. "Everyone lies. 'Of course that doesn't make your butt look big.' 'You like her, I like her.' 'I'm totally okay with you moving on.' 'Everything's fine, why do you ask?' It's how the world goes around because no one wants to be trapped in a conversation where someone whines at you for hours on end about how awful their life is."

He looked around the room. "Trust me. Everyone's life is terrible. They're just not telling you about it. Be grateful."

He reached onto his desk for a piece of paper. "Today we're conducting an exercise to see how well you pass this particular social ritual, then we'll discuss whether you think it is necessary. We're playing two truths and a lie. I'll tell you three things about myself and you have to decide which one is the falsehood. Then you'll all tell three things and we'll see how well you can either read each other or keep things hidden."

He gave them a small smile. "I'm very good at this." It had taken him a very long time to come up with things that Leia either wouldn't know or shouldn't know, but that was hardly the point, was it? He schooled his face to absolute neutrality, put his mental blocks up to bar any psychics in the room from gaining an advantage, then said: "I have never lost a lightsaber duel. I hate sand. I can fly any ship I ever sat at the controls of." His eyes challenged them to call him out. "Who's next?"

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Effy shrugged. "Sometimes," she replied. "Other times, remember I think it used to be easier. No one expecting anything from you."

"Seems like it would be difficult to communicate," he countered. "I'm sure you had your ways but I think that's the biggest obstacle I can see."

"Odd word here and there," she allowed. "But eventually, people stop asking you shit." Effy hadn't minded just getting left to it, for the most part.

"Should try it."

"I don't know if that experiment would work out for me," Bod admitted honestly. "I haven't always needed to talk either but it seems mostly beneficial and needed on this island. It's a lot different than home."

Effy huffed a laugh. "Right about that." Not a hell of a lot like her home either. "Don't think anywhere is really like here."

"If I wrong, then either you've been expelled from your last two schools or your lying about your name," he concluded. "You seem nice enough now so I'm wondering if you've really been expelled."

He, obviously, did not know her very well.

Obviously.

Effy smirked. "Elizabeth," she told him. Which would probably tell him he'd been wrong. Just because she could play nice occasionally, did not change that she was a rebel at heart.

"Ah." He paused and shook his head. "I'm terrible at this game."

"Point of playing can be to get better," Effy pointed out. "Now you know."

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