Sex And Candy, Wednesday, Second Period

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

"So, one of the problems of fairy tales is that they are sometimes contradictory in the messages they try to teach," Cindy said, as students filed into the Danger Shop, set up to look like a vast forest with a single path winding through the middle. "Some of them try to tell you that so long as you follow the rules and work hard, everything will be okay. Others make a point of life's unfairness, where people even decent people get the short end of the stick and children die for getting dirty. While most of them stress how important it is to be kind to those you meet, no matter how lowly or common they appear to be, some show how easily kindness can be repaid by cruelty. Sure, most of those usually end with the bad guys getting their comeuppance, but most of those endings seem tacked on at the last minute. It's the suffering that gets most of the attention."

Of course, part of that could be blamed on sheer human nature and what people found most interesting to hear about, but that was a lecture for a different day.

"So, today, we're going to experiment with the arbitrary nature of fairy tales," Cindy continued, and please ignore that little grin she can't quite get rid of. "Your job is to deliver this basket--" and with the click of a button, there were a stack of picnic baskets by her feet "--through the woods to Grandmother's house. Stay on the path and don't forget--" She clicked another button and stopped biting back the grin. "--Your little red hood."

[Many thanks to furnaceface for helping me iron out the OCD!]

Comments

Get the Basket!

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

Man, your grade is depending on that basket. You know, the one that is currently bobbing along in the middle of the river. Hope you don't mind getting soaked.

[If you saved the fish, she will push your basket back up onto the shore. Otherwise, dive in!]

Re: Get the Basket!

[wwiii]

Warren was just about to make the leap in as the fish intervened, saving him from further wetness.

Thank goodness. Soggy wings were not how Warren had been hoping to spend the rest of the class.

Re: Get the Basket!

[notmyownage]

"Dammit, stupid basket." Claudia started into the water -- she was already pretty wet, so what was a bit more water? -- when she saw the fish from earlier pushing the basket towards her. "Sweet. Thanks, fishy."

Re: Get the Basket!

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

The basket being downstream from her, all Firekeeper's swimming managed to do was keep the distance between them equal. Until the fish showed up and hauled it to shore. Well, that was nice.

Re: Get the Basket!

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy sighed and prepared to wade into the water after the basket. She didn't have to get in too deep before the fish pushed it over to her. She thanked it for its kindness and waded back out to continue down the path.