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How to Make Friends and Influence People [Tuesday, April 1, 2014]

A distinctly soggy Anakin squelched into the Danger Shop in time to meet his class. "I don't actually expect you to be ready to do real work yet," he said, waving his hands toward the variety of exercise equipment he'd placed around the room--most in the "things to hit" range--"and I'm certainly not going to make you talk about anything you're not ready to yet. So hit something or run a lot--I promise it'll make you feel better."

He sighed at the tiny stage that was also in the corner. "Or have a puppet show. One of our visitors left sockpuppets that look like all of the citizens of this island."

The Pinkie Pie one was especially adorable.

"I didn't ask why," Anakin added, "but if you want to be ridiculous as a way to repress, well, here's your chance, and it'll only come around once. Try not to get everything too wet, but that seems to be a pretty lost cause today."

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Elsa gave him a sympathetic smile. He was getting oddly specific, there.

And it certainly explained his nickname.

"Fake it until you make it," she echoed. "Maybe I'll have to give that a try."

Of course, that would be far easier if it was herself that she was frightened for. Maybe she'd stick with Professor Skywalker's meditation exercises, instead. Barreling bravely onward when other people stood to get hurt far more than she did seemed... well...

"Thank you, Jeff."

Actually, it had absolutely nothing to do with the nickname. Complete coincidence.

"You're welcome. Oh, and, uh..." There was something else he needed to say, but he needed to do it delicately, especially since he didn't know whether Elsa... yeah.

"I... don't know when I'm going to see Sholeh again, since she's not normally in our class. If you see her before I do... She implied certain things, regarding her hopes for who I should... Well, anyway. The thing is, I don't want to disappoint anyone, and I certainly don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, and I absolutely hate to dash the dreams of pretty girls everywhere, but things do have this tendency to happen. The point is, I started seeing Eleanor, romantically... and I really, really don't want that to cause any hard feelings, for anyone, and especially not for any of the girls who are completely wonderful, but their prince just isn't in this particular castle. So... if you see her before I do, could you let her know?"

Elsa looked completely baffled at that for a moment, and then a sort of fuzzy realization hit her. She blinked, and then she smiled faintly, and she was lifting her hand to stifle another giggle all over again.

"Well, I'm glad that you and Eleanor are happy," she informed him. Because, really, she could hardly fault either of them for dating, especially not after all that had happened around the island lately. What would Elsa have done anyway? She couldn't expect anybody to spend a life at arm's length from her while she shied away from anything even resembling closeness, after all. "And... as soon as I remember which one is Sholeh, I'll be certain to let her know?"

She was the... redhead? Maybe? With the freckles?

"Okay, good," Joker told her. "Just wanted to get that out there. You know, in case it was important. ...OH! One more thing I needed to ask: that voice. Alternate universe, or was that real, too?"

Elsa just smiled a little to herself at that.

"If I said that was my secret, would it drive you crazy, Joker?"

Joker considered that. "Yeah, probably. Why, do you think it's the kind of thing you're likely to do?"

"Not hugely likely, no," Elsa admitted, though she was still smiling as she slipped the little Elsa puppet back on, held it up, and sang a few lines from the song she'd made up the other week.

Yeah, she still belted it.

The Joker puppet bounced excitedly. "OOOOOOOOOOH! Encore, encore!"

"That was the encore," Elsa laughed. "We'll see about me singing more... sometime. Maybe."

But really, she was a Disney princess. She'd be caught just singing for the sake of singing eventually.

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