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Rikku of the Al Bhed ([personal profile] the_merriest) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2010-12-14 12:43 pm

Unconventional Tactics, Tuesday, Period 2

Today, there was no lanky Turk standing in front of the class room. Just a weirdly dressed blonde girl that some of you might have taken classes with, a couple of years ago. She was holding a small bright red baby bird cradled in her hands.

"Hi, guys," she said. "I'm Rikku. I'm a friend of Reno's. He can't teach today, so it looks like your final is up to me."

Don't worry. She'd explain Reno's absence in a minute.

"First of all! We had an invasion last week, and all of you made it through. Good job! Maybe you were one of the people who went and fought goblins. Maybe you did research and found something important. Maybe you stayed in the dorms and held down the fort while everyone else went off to be heroes. What matters here is that the invasion's over, and everybody's still in one piece. So if you want to talk about what you did, or what you didn't do, we can totally do that. But you guys aren't going to have a final, because you already passed it. Just by getting back to class safe and sound."

The chocobo chose that moment to nod emphatically and blow a raspberry. Pbbbbbbthhhhhhht!

"See? Reno agrees," she laughed. "That's the second thing. Your teacher is currently an adorable little baby chocobo, and has been for almost a week now. But I'm sure he still wants to hear about how you guys did. Or how cute his little chin-chin is. Or wave a wing for pictures, if any of you need some blackmail material ..."

If she had to teach his class, she was, at least, going to amuse herself doing it.
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[personal profile] intraspective 2010-12-14 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yamanaka Ino
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Chloe Saunders
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Re: Talk to the TAs!

[personal profile] awakestheghosts 2010-12-14 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello, Rikku!
intraspective: (over shoulder look)

Re: Lecture!

[personal profile] intraspective 2010-12-14 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It was way stupid, right, to feel better stuck in a classroom--there were fewer easy exits than the shop, but there were more people around that she felt comfortable being around and on Ino's mental scale of comfort at the moment that was mattering more.

And she was just going to be... sitting here. Mulling over what she'd gleaned from the nurses about the last week and doing simple stretching exercises with her hands. They were healed, yes, but it wouldn't hurt them for her to make sure.
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Re: Discussion!

[personal profile] intraspective 2010-12-14 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"I wasn't here," she said, a bit flatly. "What all went down?"

She knew what the nurses had told her, but hearing it from other people... gave her something to think about.
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[personal profile] vanillajello 2010-12-14 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Kate Gregson
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Re: Talk to Rikku and/or Reno!

[personal profile] intraspective 2010-12-14 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"So," Ino said, approaching at the end of class. "Should I explain to you why I weren't here last week, or wait 'till Reno is not a chicobo?"
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Re: Discussion!

[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-12-14 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"A bunch of us got kidnapped by some goblins and a guy with spikier hair than Zack," Karla said, a little flatly herself. "A crazy labyrinth sprung up all around the island and absorbed a bunch of buildings and negated everyone's magic. Then I guess he showed up to give everyone twenty-four hours to get the abducted students back, and two teams came in to find us. He tried to cheat, our people cheated better, and everyone got out."
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Karla
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Re: Discussion!

[personal profile] intraspective 2010-12-14 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good old Fandom," she muttered, "goin' to hell at least twice a year. Any injuries?"

Better this, truly, than her own week. Ugh.
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Re: Lecture!

[personal profile] vanillajello 2010-12-14 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Kate was probably going to spend class staring at the baby chocobo. She hadn't been on the island last week, and she hadn't listened to the podcasts once she'd gotten back, both for a reason.

She didn't particularly want to hear anything now, either.
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[personal profile] life_inshadow 2010-12-14 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Tara Maclay
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Re: Discussion!

[personal profile] life_inshadow 2010-12-14 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"I tried to use my powers, but I really couldn't," Tara volunteered. "So, uh, I ... stayed in the dorms and tried to keep everybody calm and organized."
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Re: Discussion!

[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-12-14 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Nothing physical beyond some bumps and bruises, I hear," Karla said. "There was something about a minotaur and some crazy gravity, but everyone seems to have gotten away mostly unscathed."

She figured Ino would probably pick up on the 'physically' part, but it wasn't her place to talk about any emotional baggage people might have picked up this weekend.

"How about you? Did you get stuck somewhere when the island got cut off?"
Edited 2010-12-14 19:08 (UTC)
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[personal profile] trigons_child 2010-12-14 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Raven
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Re: Discussion!

[personal profile] trigons_child 2010-12-14 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Raven wasn't proud of her behavior during the invasion, so she wasn't about to start talking about it. She just sat quietly and hoped no one would ask her anything.
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Re: Discussion!

[personal profile] intraspective 2010-12-14 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Her lips tightened at the question.

"Zack and I were out in Midgar," she said, "portals went down, the week passed, we're back."

... That was possibly the fastest she'd summarized anything ever.
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Re: Discussion!

[personal profile] glacial_queen 2010-12-14 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Blink blink. Karla would have to give her hourglass pendant back if she didn't notice that something had gone on during that week. Had they fought? Had something happened with Gaia and Midgar?

"I'm sure you would have been just devastated to have missed finals," she said, more to have something to say that actually paying attention to the words. Still between the choices of utter inanity or trying to bring up what was likely a sensitive topic during class, Karla was going to go with inane.

"Glad to be back?" she asked, a bit delicately.
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Re: Discussion!

[personal profile] intraspective 2010-12-14 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, the inanity hadn't sunk to the level of 'my, what wonderful weather we're having!' which was something to be mildly grateful for. So far.

"Yeees?" And that wasn't supposed to be a question, but it sorta was because Ino was, at the moment, feeling the best solely when Zack was about. However, she refused to cling to him like a leech and so… discomfort. By choice.

Ish.

It definitely had to be an 'ish'. "Some of it was fun," she volunteered, grasping at straws to say something positive. "Zack can't sing."

Well, he could. Painfully, badly, and loudly.

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