Living With Difficult Women [Tuesday, Period 5]

[furious-maximus.livejournal.com]

Max had spent a large chunk of the past week rethinking precisely how he was going to run this class with all the... women in it. He hadn't really come up with a solution he liked, but it was class time now so it was apparently time to go with a solution he didn't much care for.

"Welcome back, everyone," he began as he looked around at his students. "This class is intended to be a practical one, but for us to do that we're going to have to be candid with one another. That, however, requires trust, and we don't all know one another that well." He quirked an eyebrow, wondering if anyone was going to challenge that assertion. "We're going to try to remedy that." He grinned suddenly before adding, "The trust part."

"You're going to pair up. Then each of you is going to share a deeply private secret with the other one. That way each of you will know that if you violate the trust of the other students in this class, someone else here holds a serious piece of information to punish you with. If the person you're partnered with judges your secret to be insufficiently powerful, they can demand another, so you're better off sharing one major thing than being forced to go through a dozen things that almost qualify."

Max let a hard gaze drift slowly across the room, letting it rest on each student until he felt he'd driven home how serious he was. "Understand this: by receiving these secrets you're being entrusted with something important. Violating that trust is not something I will tolerate. The only reason we're doing this is to help everyone to feel like the can be candid because they'll know that everyone has shared something here they don't want spread around."

He gestured to the handwavy list he had up. "I've assigned partners randomly. Find yours and get to it. I'll be stopping by to check on how each of you are doing."

"Oh, and Pendragon, Cauthon, I want to see each of you after class."

Comments

Re: Share your secrets

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Yeeeah, don't think that's gonna happen," Hurley said. "The poisoning, I mean. That would be kinda evil, dude."

"I, uhhh... my dad kinda left home when I was ten," Hurley said. "Just left and never came back."

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Re: Share your secrets

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

"Did he become Dragonsworn?" Mat asked. "That's been going around lately at home."

Re: Share your secrets

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"I don't know what that is, dude," Hurley said. "Plus I don't think we have any dragons."

Re: Share your secrets

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

"Oh, the Dragon is a man," Mat said. "And when he was reborn, a lot of people took the Prophecies literally and decided all bonds were broken and left their homes in droves."

Re: Share your secrets

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Dude," Hurley said. "Like... just figured screw it and leave home?"

Re: Share your secrets

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

"Exactly," Mat replied. "Now they just roam the countryside, generally causing trouble."

Re: Share your secrets

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"...that sucks, dude," Hurley said. "But, uhhh, I have no idea what my dad is doing. Or... why he left. Or anything."

Re: Share your secrets

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

"So he's not roaming the countryside?"

Mat wasn't exactly good at the whole feelings thing.

Re: Share your secrets

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Never heard from him again," Hurley said. "That's kinda why I don't tell people."