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As the students filed into the classroom, they'd see Fraser standing at the front, leaning against the desk. The super straight posture he was so used to didn't seem needed right now.

"Good morning and welcome back," Fraser said, smiling at them all. "Today, we're going to get right into the lessons. I don't have a syllabus as I tend to stop following it halfway through so every week is going to be a surprise."

Whether that was good or bad, Fraser didn't know. "Today, we're going to be discussing extraterrestrial life. Now, that particular legend has been refuted time and time again to those of us on the island. There are people outside the island that still might not believe there really are other planets out there beyond our solar system and thus, they probably don't believe some people who are very much alive exist at all."

Fraser paused and pushed away from the desk. "Even if this island and it's amazing properties didn't exist, people would still be pushing the belief that extraterrestrial life existed because the universe is really too vast to just be us. That's just ridiculous, isn't it? Why would a universe that's probably comprised of an infinite number of solar systems, planets and stars be out there but we're the only ones living. Unfortunately, there are those people that believe that's true. They believe we're the only ones that are alive and they believe that the universes are ours."

Humanity was a selfish, selfish species. "Now, why do you think, presented with quite a bit of evidence, people would believe that we're alone in the universe? Isn't that short sighted and narrow minded at this day and age? It's true that Earth scientist might not have discovered extraterrestrial life on the planets in this system but that's not an indicator that they do not exist. Scientists need only to come here and find that other planets, other worlds and other universes truly do exist. So, today's activity is simple. We're all going to assume we're extraterrestrials. There's someone in front of you telling you that you do not exist and you never will. How would you convince them otherwise? Feel free to talk to each other and discuss your answers. Let's get started."

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Warren was giving the lecture all of the consideration that it was due, but it was still hitting weird little sticky points in his mind. He'd spent his entire life trying to prove to people that he wasn't different from them, after all.

Coming from she did as a planet that wasn't aware of--any other planets out there that had life on them, Hinata was frowning slightly as she considered the lecture.

Sara considered this lecture to be something of a conundrum: on the one hand, it made perfect sense to her, as it certainly was a vast galaxy out there, and the mere idea of entire other civilizations out among the stars was positively intriguing. On the other hand . . . the constable's reasoning, while perfectly sound, was so rational as to take some of the mysterious allure out of the notion for her.

She sat, contemplating the question, and frowning slightly.

Karla's people also thought they were alone in the universe. However, unlike this world, they had stars without any visible planets. The only real information about what lay beyond was a fragment of an old poem:

They spiral down into Ebony, catching the stars in their tails,

about the ancient dragons that had created the Blood. All was Darkness, otherwise.

So, hmmm...

Proof of life on other planets sat in his seat, contemplating the logical arguments for and against each viewpoint at this point in Earth's timeline.

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