Flavors, Food Choices, and Menu Planning - Friday, 4th period

[sharp_as_knives]

All the students in the class were getting e-mail that morning:

From: Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Subject: Today's class
Importance: High

Due to the increasingly lethal population of the island, class today will be optional, and held in the gourmet suite of the Arms Hotel. If you choose not to attend, it will not affect your grade; should you choose to show, you will obtain extra credit and be given the opportunity to taste dinosaur meat.

Hannibal wasn't going anywhere today, but if you wanted to, he would feed you.

Comments

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

[never-dull.livejournal.com]

"The students here have seen enough that I suspect this may seem routine to some of them," Hannibal said. "Others seem to have little sense of self-preservation. And most teenagers feel they're immortal," he added with a smile.

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

[furnaceface]

//Ah, immortality.// Jono would have rolled his eyes, if only he were able. //Learned my lesson about that one, back when. Ish. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by it. After all, I used to be a student here myself.//

And really, his class kind of called out to the students most likely to make terrible life choices, didn't it?

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

[never-dull.livejournal.com]

"Has anybody been seriously injured by this latest wave of insanity?" Hannibal asked. He cut himself a bite of the dinosaur steak, but politely waited for Jono's answer first. It seemed rude to interrupt his thoughts with food.

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

[furnaceface]

//As a matter of fact, they have,// Jono replied, a little grimly. //One student of mine, Yeul, has literally no sense of self-preservation. She came into the classroom today bloodied and with torn clothing. She's got potions that'll heal the injuries, but it's a bloody miracle she wasn't completely mauled.//

For all he knew, she could very well have been.

//I think most students have the good sense to avoid the danger, but there are the odd few who just seem incapable of grasping that giant man-eating reptiles,// he gestured to the food, //and harpies and the like are actually dangerous.//

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

[never-dull.livejournal.com]

"Most of mine seem not to have that problem," Hannibal noted. His students being either armed, already there, or absent.

He was fairly certain saying that those who weren't careful enough would learn wouldn't be terribly reassuring, so instead he ate the bite of steak, chewing slowly and pulling apart the flavor.