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"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!]

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Well, Baba Yaga is at least a little reasonable--she's not going to eat your eyes, for example--and is willing to let you go in exchange for doing two simple, easy, completely pointless tasks.

The first one is she needs your help in the pantry. Somehow it got infested with rats and she wants you to get rid of them. She's even got a broom you can borrow!

[If you saved the fox, she'll show up and kill the rats for you. Otherwise, it's up to you.]

Raven could've just teleported, but she was curious to see what tasks she would be given. The fox returned to help her out with the rats, but she politely declined, since she would not be responsible for those deaths, even if they were rats. She simply summoned up her Soul-Self instead and swept the rats inside, depositing them elsewhere in the woods with instructions not to return to the hut.

She knew it was going to be something like this. She knew that following a cry for help was going to mean trouble.

She took the broom, but was relieved when she saw the fox show up to help. (She had a problem with rats ever since that experience in the warehouse.)

She'd have to ask Derek later if there were such a thing as werefoxes.

It was a valid thought.

After meeting a duck who lived in a shoe this weekend, the hut gave Cally little pause. The witch who wanted to eat her face, on the other hand, WAS A LITTLE PAUSEWORTHY.

The helpful fox, on the third hand that she didn't have, was adorable and made Cally sad that she couldn't take it back to snuggle forever and give Nana a playmate. Look, sometimes she was just a girl.

Elphaba started by trying to lecture the rats out of the pantry... when the fox showed up to help, while she wasn't particularly happy with the idea, she thanked her for her help with a polite curtsy.

Alex took the broom up and set to whacking rats in the name of not having his face eaten, but when the fox showed up he was fine with sitting back and letting her finish the job.

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