fandomhigh | Still want to be a Hero?, Thursday, 3rd Period

Cara's students had been told to meet her in the Danger Shoop this week. Right as they arrived, they would have seen a squirrel run out the door, furiously chittering. Inside an outdoorsy landscaped waited, as well as a couple of familiar faces from the last time they'd had class in here, standing on a path in the hills.

Also, Cara was covered in glitter.

"You all remember Richard and Zedd," she said, pointing at each of them in turn in case they'd forgotten, she then reached up and placed a hand on the shoulder of the 'friend' they'd rescued in that class. "However, last time I forgot to introduce Kahlan to you. There's a few things you should know about her. Kahlan is a Confessor. For those of you who don't know what that is, to cut a long story short, they're a group of women who uphold the laws of the Midlands, largely because they can tell when people are lying to them and because the touch of a Confessor can permanently alter a person's mind, leaving them completely devoted to the Confessor. It's considered as good as a death sentence. They also can't control this power during moments of release, so they can't have sex with people they like if they want them to stay those people." Which Cara thought was as much failure of the imagination as anything, but nobody asked her.

"More to the point she's the Mother Confessor, which means she's considered the final authourity on law and justice throughout the Midlands. However most of the Confessors have been killed in recent years." Guess who wasn't going to go into detail on how that happened. "So law and justice aren't quite what they used to be."

"Anyway, today you're going to be going on a little adventure with Richard, Kahlan, and Zedd. Doesn't that sound like fun?"

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"Motivation for what? Squirrel steak?" Surreal asked, doing her best to keep a straight face. "Or did you get in their rum and this is payback?"

"To keep track of dates better," Cara's expression was all but daring Surreal to start laughing. "They're very invested in it."

"Why? They think you're going to miss your radio show or something?" Surreal laughed, shaking her head. "Today's Thursday, you're at class, what more do they want?"

"I...we were supposed to make a ridiculous fuss about the date last night with a date," Cara said darkly. "The glitter's supposed to jog my memory."

"A date about a date..." Surreal looked over Cara's be-glittered leathers with dawning horror. "...they're going to try and throw that on me, too, aren't they?"

Cara grimaced.

"According to them at least one of us should have remembered. I told them to let me talk to you first." Because she was a good girlfriend like that...also she was the only one allowed to get glitter on Surreal. "They said glitter's the fastest way to get what they want."

Surreal, that isn't a smile. That's baring your teeth. "Here I thought it was the fastest way to make me want a new pair of squirrel mittens."

SURREAL.

"Wait, why do they care?"

Hey now, Cara quite liked that expression. Because she was hopeless.

"I don't know." They were interfering little busybodies was why. "But the words 'painfully clueless' were used."

Now Surreal was just offended. "I don't know what pain has to do with it, but I'm not clueless," she scowled. "Your place. Tonight."

To be fair, they might have just been referring to the one of them who'd ignored all the hints they'd been dropping yesterday morning, but Cara wasn't in a charitable enough mood to consider that.

"I'll be there." Not that she was usually anywhere else most nights. "Hopefully after I get rid of this glitter."

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