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Anakin had backed himself up against his desk looking a little hunted as a unicorn talked to him. "You're so tall," it was saying happily. "And have such nice blue eyes--"

"Um, right," he said, turning his attention to the class. "Everyone look under your chairs, please," he said. A third of the students ~~going by how they sign into class~~ would find a bag with a full-sized chocolate bar waiting for them. A third would find a bag with a fun-sized chocolate bar. A third would find nothing at all.

"Oooh, chocolate!" the unicorn squealed. "That's so nice!"

Anakin ignored the unicorn as he waited for whatever grumbling there might be to subside. "Anyone feeling a little ripped off right now?" he asked rhetorically. "Two minutes ago no one had any candy and everyone was fine. Now I haven't taken anything away from anyone, no one's any worse off than they were when they walked in the door, and some of you are thinking very nasty things about me. Some of you have more than you did when you came into the classroom and still feel like you've been given an unfair deal."

"That's really smart," the unicorn commented.

Anakin moved on. "Isn't envy fun? Under its grip we never concentrate on the gifts we have been given."

"Like your hair," the unicorn added.

"Instead we focus on what others have that we want," Anakin said as his cheeks heated. "It's entirely a question of attitude. Today's question: how would someone capitalize on that very human failing if they were seeking to manipulate others?"

He looked around. "And where did that rainbow come from?"

The unicorn looked embarrassed.

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Check under your seat as you boggle at the unicorn. Did you get anything?

... The unicorn deserved a momentary gawk, it did, truly.

And Rosalind was... not best pleased to find chocolate, a full-sized chocolate bar to be exact, under her desk. She didn't really care for chocolate.

Sigh. Perhaps she'd envy those who had none instead and that way the assignment would still be--completed, if in a roundabout fashion.

Edited 2010-09-30 13:07 (UTC)

Medusalith had found no chocolate under her desk, but she had noticed Rosalind looking less than pleased with hers. And, since as far as she could tell chocolate was one of the few things humans had gotten right, she thought she saw a solution to both of their problems. One that probably didn't fit with how Anakin had envisioned this assignment going, but oh well. It was worth a shot. She leaned over toward the other girl and offered, "I'll take it, if you don't want it. I'd trade you, but I didn't get any, so I suppose I could give you one of the dollars?"

"One of the dollars?" she repeated, unsure if the girl meant something specific that happened to be named the same as American money, or if it was simply something that still needed to be more fully understood by the other girl.

Rosalind was, apparently, feeling charitable today.

"And if you had something, then you would likely not ask, no?"

Medusalith wasn't very good at capitalism, but what she got from this was that the other girl wasn't interested. She shrugged and said, "Fine, keep it," and sat back.

Sigh.

And she didn't even want it.

Still, it was hardly worth the effort of convincing the girl to take it. Rosalind turned her head to the front of the class and wondered, idly, if perhaps she should mail it to her little sister.

Jono was... staring at his fun-sized chocolate bar, and not particularly envying anybody in the room for having more chocolate, or less of it.

He was, however, somewhat envying their ability to eat it.

He looked more than a little sullen as he nudged the stupid thing to the far corner of the top of his desk, and then crossed his arms over his chest and proceeded to try to look as though he wanted as little to do with it as absolutely possible.

Azula glanced at Jono. She was giving Jono space and tried to gauge if she'd given him enough space.

No chocolate for Zatanna. Bugger. She spared a few seconds on the unicorn, but really, she supposed it would be best if she didn't ask the professor just what the horned horse was doing there. Besides complimenting him, of course.

The only thing it had caused, though, was giving her sudden chocolate carvings, so she would be going to buy some later that day. Rather than envious, she supposed there was no point on glaring at the students with chocolate, since they hadn't agreed on anything that she knew.

...That didn't mean she was going to glare at Anakin then; he was trying to prove a point. That left Zatanna without much to do, besides thinking about chocolate.

Scully had immediately popped a square in her mouth. And now, after looking around and realizing that not everyone got some, she felt guilty. SIGH. Moral lessons.

She might have been looking for someone to share it with.

She held some out to the unicorn, boggling.

"OOooooo! You're so nice! And you have such pretty hair!"

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Elphaba had one of the fun-size bars. She looked at it, and wondered why it was considered 'fun'. It was Munchkin sized, perhaps. Munchkins weren't particularly fun, either. At least not to Elphaba.

She was not, however, hungry. So she looked around and said "If anyone doesn't have any and wants it, I will give you mine," she said.

"I'll take it," Medusalith offered. "If you're certain you don't want it."

"I'm certain," Elphaba said, holding out the candy for the other girl to take. "I don't have have much of a taste for candy, really. I prefer the sweeter fruits, if I'm honest. It's all so... decadent, I suppose."

Warning, warning: did not compute with the princess. "I think chocolate is one of the only things the...Americans have gotten right, myself," she said as she took the candy bar. "Thank you."

"I suppose it may be because I come from what is predominantly farmland," Elphaba admitted. "We're not as... urban as the Emerald City or even the Gillikins, in Munchkinland."

Medusalith didn't know what those were, and was from a city, but a completely isolated one, so she said, "I see," in tones of 'I don't see.'

"I just mean to say that it's not something I have much at home," Elphaba said. "And since I will be returning there eventually, I don't wish to grow too enamored of it."

That was being sensible, she thought.

Cara considered her chocolate bar thoughtfully, it wasn't that she didn't enjoy it, she just found she didn't like too much of it at one sitting.

She ended up slipping it into her empty agiel holster (feeling slightly ridiculous), it might be useful if one of those strange sparkly horned horses started following her around and saying blatantly untrue things again.

The unicorn. Whimsy. Of course.

And as for the chocolate? That was more chocolate than he'd ever seen at one time in his life.

Logically, he knew sharing it would be the right thing to do. But then there was the fact that he'd spent the last eight years in an environment where if you had something someone else wanted, you couldn't expect to have it much longer.

So, yeah. That chocolate was getting eaten. And then William was going to go back to trying his very best to stay awake and listen to the rest of the lecture.

Azula took the chocolate from under her chair and proceeded to eat.

Squall shrugged at the fun-sized bar he found. Whatever.

He was more concerned with the unicorn. It wasn't bothering him, yet, but he didn't like the cheerful way it kept looking at him.

James looked and found nothing. He shrugged. If he wanted some, he could get some chocolate from the store or...by other means.

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