Getting Out of Tight Situations- Period 5- Class #5

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When the students got to class today, they'd find themselves in the middle of a hilly forest area. At least it wasn't too humid or too cold this week?

"Hey, guys," Jaina greeted them. "Today you're going hiking. You can pick up a few essentials to take with you, the trail is marked, and you even get a companion on your hike." As she spoke, a nondescript teenage boy appeared next to her, waving at the students. "This is Bob. Something's going to happen on your hike, and I'm not going to tell you what. But once it happens, you're going to have to figure out what tools you have available to you and what you're going to do about it. Good luck, and I hope you all wore study shoes."

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Re: Talk to Jaina

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"Completely," she nodded. "What else do you want to know?"

Re: Talk to Jaina

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"How did you wind up Joined?" Ender asked, after a moment to get his own cool back. "And where was Ben in all this?"

Re: Talk to Jaina

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"You spend enough time around the Killiks, and you start to think like them, basically. Supposedly it's pheromones that can change the structure of the brain over time. For reasons I'm sure you can understand, I'd rather not think about that," she told him. "I was there for a few months to help Raynar in what was looking to be the start of a war, and a couple of us stayed behind after everyone else left, and while the others were connected to Taat, the extra time there made me into a full Joiner. Ben came with his parents, then, and apparently had a Killik hitchhike along with them, but if you want details on that, it'd probably best if he told you." If Ben wasn't comfortable talking about being kind of joined with a Gorog, she wasn't going to go there. "Otherwise I don't think he was too involved. As far as I know he was mostly at home or working with Jacen."

Which still bothered her when talking about this, yes.

Re: Talk to Jaina

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Honestly, Ben had dropped enough background info to start tallying things up; he'd just wanted a general sense of where everyone he cared about was at the time.

He weighed the significance of asking her something about Jacen against the Killiks, and wound up in favour of the latter. When he spoke again, it was hence a moment or two later. "So pheromones, a mental connection, and body signals," he said. "How about their young? Did they care for them? How were they born?"

Re: Talk to Jaina

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"From what I understand, some nests did things differently." Like the Gorog, who were gross about it and ruined it for everybody. "But Taat had a giant area where the Killiks would go to lay their eggs, up to a thousand at a time," she said. "I didn't spend a lot of time with the young, but I know that the eggs at least were tended to, and within a year they were already ready for battle."