fandomhigh | Practical Crisis Problem Solving - Danger Shop, Tuesday, Period 3 (11am-12pm)

Oh look, still no exotic locations. The students walking through the Danger Shop doors found themselves in the library. Yes, that library. It was empty aside from the Doctor who was sitting on the collections desk, legs swinging over the edge. There were a few lamps on around the library and moonlight coming in the windows, suggesting it was late at night in here rather than 11am like it was outside.

Once everyone was gathered and the doors were closed, the Doctor leapt off the desk. "Sometimes," the Doctor started, pacing around in the well-lit areas, "you end up somewhere you're not expecting to be. Happens to me all the time. For some of you, even being here is somewhere you're not expecting to be. Wait. Sorry." He paused. "I forgot to say hello. Hello! Very rude of me. As I was saying, you don't always expect to walk head first into a problematic situation. Usually you won't be the only one there. Sometimes you'll be able to leave when others can't.

You have a choice." He looked around at them. "Fight or flight. You could take your leave, walk out and that's a perfectly reasonable solution to the problem. Of course, you'll be leaving everyone else to their own fate. Or you could always choose to stay, putting your life in immediate danger, but you could find out what's going on and help the people around you. Your choice. Make it now."

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"Third floor's easy enough to get to, assuming the windows aren't locked," Ben said, because sometimes he climbed buildings for fun. Weirdo, "and I'm pretty handy with electronics. The sun's not going to stay in one place, though, so I'm thinking time isn't exactly on our side here."

"Hmmm," Alexander nodded, taking the other boy's points into consideration. "That's a very good point. Can you get much light with electronics? I'm not too terribly familiar with them, I'm afraid, but I do realize that the suggestion of fire would be problematic. A flame is hardly steady in its light."

"The generator would provide a very steady light," Ben assured him. "It's the light that keeps the dorms illuminated."

Alexander nodded slowly. "That that's it, then," he said. "That seems like an easy solution."

But his eyes narrowed slightly.

Too easy....

Ben's mind was tracking along similar lines. "You don't suppose the shadows are sentient, do you? This seems too easy."

Alexander frowned. "It's entirely possible," he said, instantly getting a bad feeling about this ~~although that might just be who he was talking to~~. "Do you...there could be a possibility they could take out the generator. We'd have to ensure that it was kept as well lit as we are..."

"Yeah, generators tend to be in dark rooms," Ben admitted. "No point in wasting light in a place no one needs it."

"Are they portable at all?" asked Alexander. "These generators? Because I think there may be some benefit to staying in the library. Unless we figure out how to take care of this carnivorous shadow problem, we're doomed to spend the entirety of our lives," or the entirety of class, anyway, but that hardly had the same dramatic effect, "staying confined to areas we can keep lit and constantly living in fear of the darkness."

"Depends on the variety," Ben admitted. "There are some that are portable and some which are decidedly not. I'll have to see what there is to work with, how much of it is really necessary and what I could take with me. Because you are right--it makes no sense to light a huge space badly when we could consolidate everyone in one place and light the hell out of that spot."

Beat. "Though that will eventually lead to problems with sleeping. We'll worry about that later."

Alexander's head tilted. "How so?"

It occurred to Ben that someone not yet sixteen should probably not know quite so much about torture techniques, but he answered anyway. "Have you ever tried to sleep in a brightly lit room?"

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