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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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Finally, all the rats are gone. Good job--not that Baba Yaga says that. Instead, she points to the floor, where the rats chews holes in several bags of grain. Now all the wheat, barley, and rye are mixed together! We can't have that!

For your last task, Baba Yaga demands you separate the grains.

[If you saved the ant from being eaten, he and a bunch of his friends are happy to help. Otherwise, well, good luck!]

On the other hand, she was more than happy to accept the help of the ants to separate the grains. "Thank you so very much," she said happily as they were finishing.

Take that, Baba Yaga.

Chloe was beyond thankful that the ants showed up because there was no way she could have solved this one on her own -- and she would have been stuck for days trying to take care of it.

She felt bad that she didn't have some sugar or something to give to the ants.

Cally was perhaps a bit too fascinated by the whole process, crouching over the swarming insects to watch as they industriously sorted the grains. "You should see if the witch would like to hire you on permanently," she said to the ant in charge. "Perhaps in exchange for a certain amount of seed for yourselves. Everybody wins!"

Dolf, you're to blame for this.

Elphaba had no help with this, and instead she crossed her arms.

"I don't see why I should help you even further," she said, defiantly. "This seems greedy on your part. How did the rats even become such a problem unless you let them?"

Yes. Getting snotty with Baba Yaga would totally end well.

Alex had no help with this because he'd let the ant get eaten, and neither did he have any idea what the difference between those three things were. He cursed in Greek and Japanese a lot as he examined them for the differences and started sorting.

This could take a while.

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