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The Five Senses | Period 1 | Friday | July 16

Fraser was fully aware that the island had done something extraordinary again just by listening to radio alone. He didn't understand exactly what happened but it seemed to be a surprising and happy event. He was pleased with that.

"Good morning," he greeted once everyone had gathered around the main campfire. "It seems the island's decided to be its unpredictable self. I hope you all are enjoying your visitors if you received them. Enjoy your time with them."

He nodded at them all once. "Today, we're going to be talking about your sense of sight. For many, the sense of sight is the most important sense they can use. It's almost a gateway sense. It sees colors, sees people, sees movement, sees far, sees near, sees anything depending on how strong your sense of vision is and if you know where to look. Improving how you see things isn't always a matter of improving the strength of your eyesight. Most people are stuck in one certain way of seeing things. Many, many people just see in broad strokes. For instance, if I were seeing in broad strokes, I would start describing the color of each student's hair, their clothing, and their expressions. That's easy to see. That's right in front of me and I don't have to look closer."

He paused and clasped his hands behind his back. "What you have to remember is there is more to each of you rather than what I just listed. One of you might have a small stain on your shirt near the side. I would only see that if I trained my eyes to carefully examine. One of you might be hiding an injury. That's a matter of examining posture and changes in facial expressions. It's an easy thing to say, I know. The easiest way to challenge your eyes is to take away your other senses. So, that's what we're going to do today. Behind me, there are noise canceling headphones, gloves, and noseplugs. Those are going to eliminate almost all your other senses. You're going to have to rely on your eyesight. Everyone please take a pair of headphones, gloves and noseplugs. Once you've donned those, I want you to wander around the cabin area and look. Try to see things you hadn't ever seen before. Follow your eyes. Rely only on them. If I see you about to hurt yourselves, I'll stop you but this is practice sharpening your eyes because they are the only thing you'll have access to. Go."

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Showing off your eyes!

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III

Christian

Jacob Black

Claudia Donovna

Madison Avery

Lion-o

Clark Kent

Bruce Wayne

Take notes, listen to Fraser, look around and try to see different, small details, wonder about your visitors!

Hiccup eschewed taking notes in favour of looking around while Fraser talked, trying to see things in a different way.

And trying not to see the dragon lurking around the back of the cabins, keeping an eye on Hiccup.

Claudia had also noticed something was going on, thanks to the radio. Unfortunately, it put her in a bad mood, rather than a good one -- both because she couldn't quite work out what was going on, and because she hadn't gotten any visitors. The way she figured, she'd at least have time to prepare herself for being the loser with no family on Parents' Weekend. This random unannounced visit business just wasn't fair.

Which all really just said that she spent the lecture looking like a fairly typical grouchy teenager.

Hmm, Clark really had to wonder if he was kind of at an unfair advantage with this class.

Maybe he should say something to Mr. Fraser.

Yeah, like he couldn't already imagine what his parents would say to that idea.

Bruce watched Fraser carefully just in case Fraser decided to quiz them on any movements he made during the lecture.

It was probably a good thing that Bruce was not teaching this class.

Everyone needs to put on a pair of headphones, gloves and nose plugs. Once done, they have to wander around the cabin area, trying to see things they hadn't seen before while only relying on their sight.

"Okay, headphones first." He wasn't talking to himself, he was just...thinking out loud. Yeah, that was it. "Then nothe plugth. Okay, thath jutht weird. I thound ridiculouth. Aaaand I'm jutht going to thtop talking now." He went through a series of facial contortions, trying to get used to the nose plugs, then pulled on the gloves.

Hiccup glanced around, trying to decide what to look at, and then made his way over to one of the cabins, studying the door, crouching down to stare at the lock and the handle before moving across to study the hinges. It was hard to resist touching, even with the gloves on, but it was fascinating. Not being able to touch made it much harder to figure things out, but he'd never really looked at the hardware on a door before.

Christian maneuvered himself into the gear and went for a walk. It felt silly at first, and he didn't like the pinch of the nose plugs in his nostrils. But after a few moments, he really did notice more than he usually did. he even found a certain beauty in the dumpsters, once he couldn't smell the things.

Firekeeper grimaced a bit as she pulled on the equipment. Blind Seer simply looked smug, as there were no headphones, noseplugs, or gloves made to fit him.

It was more than a little disconcerting to not have all her senses at their sharpest, but... interesting, the way certain details became sharper to her eyes.

It was kind of strange cutting off his other senses, and he never realised how much he'd gotten used to them over the past month.

He glanced around for a moment, trying to pick what he should study and finally simply sat down on one of the logs surrounding the campfire. The earth was a scramble of footprints and he tried to find a pattern.

Not that he knew anything of tracking. He wasn't that kind of cliché.

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Claudia put on the equipment and made a somewhat half-assed effort not to just wander around being sulky. This was an experiment. She had to approach it in the right frame of mind.

So she was only . . . vaguely sulky as she watched the wind move through the branches of the trees. It was kind of neat, actually, especially when a flock of birds suddenly took off all at once.

Madison put on her headphones, gloves and nose plug and started looking around the campsite.

She kind of wished she had her camera.

Okay, the headphones blocked his hearing, the nose plugs...well, so long as he didn't breathe too hard on accident would work out right, and the gloves kept his hands from feeling much but gloves.

It was all on Clark's eyes...that could see through all the layers of everything. Honestly, it was cool to have an excuse to play around with his vision without some bad guy involved.

Bruce noticed that Fraser hadn't given anything to counter their sense of taste. Not that anyone - even him - was likely to lick a cabin, but it could be an advantage in certain circumstances. It needed to be clarified, however, that these were not such circumstances and that, again, Bruce was not going to lick a cabin.

He did look at a cabin very carefully in an attempt to figure out what kind of wood it was made of, though.

But he didn't lick it.

Who probably don't need a lot of sense sharpening!

Not especially, no. In fact, Firekeeper took quite a bit of pride in the fact that she could see better than most humans she knew. Growing up as a wolf definitely had advantages.

Blind Seer, as the name might suggest, was equally as smug about his eyesight.

He didn't, but he had very little advantage in this class anyway.

Who's got great eyes!

"Excuse me, Constable Fraser, but I wanted to apologize for missing last week's class," said Lion-o, looking rather contrite. "I got stuck in Locker 327 and it took me a few days to figure out how to get out."

"That's unfortunate," Fraser said, frowning in concern. "Are you all right though?"

"Oh, I'm fine. It was a little annoying at first, but it didn't hurt," said Lion-o.

"Well, I'm glad to hear that," Fraser said, looking more at ease now. "You didn't miss anything important. We did introductions and talked about the general class premise."

This week has been trying.

Damn skippy.

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