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Maritime Safety, [Monday, Period Three]

Bond had *handwavily* informed his class to meet him at the docks, where he waited for them to arrive by a motorboat.

"Good morning," he greeted when they'd all arrived. "This is Maritime Safety, so if that's not the class you signed up for, you're in the wrong place. For those of you who haven't taken one of my classes before, I'm Professor Bond, and your TAs for this class are Kyle and Rose, I trust them implicitly and so should you." High praise that.

"The purpose of this class to teach you all something about how to handle yourself out on the open water," Bond explained. "But today we'll just be starting off with introductions and some basics of safety and boat handling. I want each of you to tell me and the rest of the class your names, if you can swim, what you already know about open water sailing, and something interesting about yourself. You start."

After the class had finished, he picked up a bright yellow and red vest, and continued. "Two things you should know. One, this is a personal floatation device, also known as a life jacket," he said, demonstrating the proper technique for donning one. "If you fall into the water, it will keep you afloat long enough for us to fish you out. We won't necessarily be using them every class, but we will today. Please put them on before we get in the boat."

He kept talking as they dressed in the vests. "Two, since you'll all actually get a chance to pilot the boat today, left is port, right is starboard." He held up the relevant hand for each. "The front or fore of a ship is the bow, and the rear or aft of one is the stern.Remember that, as I will be using that terminology. Now if you're all in your vests, into the boat."

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Name, swimming ability, boating knowledge, something interesting about yourself.

"I'm Kyle. I learned to swim in your class last semester," he said to Bond, "I don't know anything about boats except that they float and..." Kyle faltered. "I can't think of anything interesting."

"Knowing they float is good," Bond said, smiling gently. "A random fact then."

Kyle thought about that for a moment. "The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Or did you mean about me?"

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"My fault for not being specific. Good to have you in class again."

He nodded his thanks. "I think you're stuck with me for a while."

"I'm Hiccup, and yeah, great name, I know. What can I say, it's a Viking tradition. This is Toothless, and he kind of brought himself." Hiccup scratched the side of his head, looking down at his false leg. "I used to swim, now I just kind of go around in circles," he said with a small grin. "But I'm good with boats. Lots of experience with boats. I only ran Dad's into the cliff that one time and it was completely fine."

He paused. "Well, mostly fine. And hey, that mast was pretty old anyway." Another pause. "Something interesting, something interesting..." He looked around, obviously searching, and went with, "I may be redecorating the cafeteria completely in Viking at some point?"

"I imagine these boats are a bit different to what you're used to, but any knowledge is better than none," Bond said. "So long as you don't pillage any maidens without permission. They're likely to hurt you if you try."

Hiccup rubbed his shoulder in memory. "They do that," he agreed, with an entirely dopey grin, thinking of Astrid and her tendency to punch him right before she kissed him.

And then he remembered where he was. "Wait, no! No, I mean, yes! I mean, no pillaging, no maidens of any kind." He resisted the urge to smack himself in the face. "And I'm just going to stop talking now."

"I don't know if I'm supposed to introduce myself too, but hey, I'm Rose, I can swim really well but never been on a boat," she said, wrinkling her nose a little. "What can I say? I'm from Montana. Which isn't the interesting bit. The interesting bit is that I just graduated."

Which wasn't really interesting either.

"Which means I can only rely on your services a few more months," Bond said. "Good to have you here until then though."

"Hi! I'm Robin, and I can swim." He'd been swimming, literally since he was born. And he could breathe underwater besides. "I've been on pontoon boats in the ever glades so I know a bit about motor boats. And yes, I am a talking frog."

"Welcome back, Mr Robin," Bond said. "Hopefully the difference between the ever glades and the ocean won't pose too much of a challenge for you."

"I'm sure I'll be fine." Robin said confidently.

Uh-oh. Here was a problem that Ariel, foolishly, hadn't seen coming. Ariel didn't much consider the questions because she, biting her lip nervously, was too busy considering a solution to the issue of how she couldn't very easily introduce herself.

She did still have her nametag, though, so, when it got to her turn, she pointed to that, first and foremost, and then patted her throat a few times. She followed that up with a helpless sort of shrug. No talking. So sorry. What can you do?

"Hi Ariel!"

At first, Ariel wondered how this little frog knew who she was; she almost had a brief flash of dread washing over her thinking that perhaps he was sent by her father or Sebastian, but then she remembered that, duh, she had her nametag! And, besides, frogs lived too close to the surface; her father would never want anything to do with them. So she quickly brightened, waving her hand excitedly in greeting back. Hello, little frog!

It was easy for her to instantly take to him. Not only was he was a creature, but he was a watery one, too!

And yay she didn't freak out! "Have you ever been on a boat before?"

Ariel's best friends were a fish and seagull. Talk to a frog was one of the most normal things to happen to her in the past three days.

Eyes bright and shining, she shook her head; the grin that would not leave her face was a clear indication that she couldn't wait to experience her first time on a boat. She nodded her head a little, an encouraging little gesture, to ask if he'd ever been on a boat before. She bet he had; frogs probably got to ride on boats all the time!

Most frogs yeah. Working on the pontoon boats that toured the Everglades was a common job.

"Uh huh! Mostly small ones though. It's a lot of fun. I'm Robin by the way."

Ariel smiled, waving her hand again in her only way of saying hi, Robin. Then, she just sort of bounced a little, looking over at the boat, unable to believe that she was going to go on one and it was just too exciting!

"Can you swim?" he asked next. It wasn't a huge deal cause of the life jackets of course.

Ariel snorted. Could she swim? Please. She waved a dismissive little hand and gave the little frog an expression that made it clear that she could swim like a fish.

At least, she thought she could. She usually could, but that was back when she had a lower half covered in gills.

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Even if she'd not had the name tag, Bond's roster was small enough he could guess who she was. "I see, Miss Ariel," he said. "Is that a temporary or permanent problem?"

Temporary, Ariel nodded, holding up one finger to indicate that the answer went with Mr. Bond's first guess. Hopefully, anyway, she thought, as she bit her lip slightly with concern, but then she nodded again, firmly, determined to make sure it was only temporary.

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