fandomhigh | Public Service - On the Edge, Monday, Period 2

It was most definitely not Reno waiting for them at the Causeway this week. Instead, Karina was. Complete with hands planted on her hips and a scowl.

You lucky people.

"Our teacher's gone and got himself turned into a bird or something," she said crisply, when it looked like most of the class had shown up. Say hello? Why would she do that? "But we've got a bigger problem than that this week."

Someone had absolutely ignored Reno's orders to never go to his world on their own. When Reno wasn't a bird he could tell her off for it, if he wanted to.

"It's a pretty self-explanatory problem. So, come on, through the portal."

Once they were through the portal, she jerked her chin at their construction site in the square. It… looked pretty bad. Pipes had been torn up, and their equipment was missing. Signs of scuffles were everywhere, like the people who'd taken things had had a few disagreements over ownership between themselves.

"The other site is even worse," Karina announced. "So today, rather than reporting our progress to the WRO, we're doing clean up. Everyone fan out, make a list of things you know are missing, things you suspect are missing. We'll also need to decide what we're doing to keep this from happening again."

"Stay in groups. Do not wander off alone." Like she was one to talk about that. Whatever. Karina clapped her hands together. "Let's get to work."

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"They probably think we did help them," Karina said dryly. "By giving them shit they could break down and sell for a short-term profit."

She was remarkably calm about this. Mostly because she'd already lost her temper about the whole situation before class had ever started, since she'd seen it first.

Anders snorted. "Right. And call me a cynic, but I don't think they're spending the money on safe water for thirsty children."

"That's called being realistic," she said, kneeling down to survey some the piled up rubble. "No way the people who did this did it out of the kindness of their hearts and for the good of the disadvantaged."

"Of course not," Anders agreed. "They simply can't believe anything good would come to their world, so why not wreck anything they can get their hands on?"

That ... was more a kick than a prod that he gave to that latest bit of twisted metal.

"Probably whatever money they got selling the scraps has already been drunk away."

Karina sighed and looked at her hands.

"Yeah," she said, "yeah, that's probably the case and I hate that. But, like, that just means we've got to rebuild and get it done this time, right? Before this happens again. Once water starts to flow, I think it'll be okay."

"Maybe," Anders conceded. "And I suppose if they want to tear it up again after that, it's not our problem. I still hate seeing the waste."

"Me too," she admitted, dusting off her hands and standing again. "It's so pointless."

"Senseless," Anders agreed. "And sad. These people get so little, and then a few of their own go to wreck one of the better things to happen here lately."

He glanced up at her. "Did Reno leave any money for us to hire guards?"

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"If he has, I don't have access to it," Karina admitted, putting her hands on her hips. "But I don't know that we have the time to hire guards today anyway. We'd need to make sure they were trustworthy and that probably takes longer than we have."

"And if we hired who we could get quickly, we'd probably end up paying the people who tore it down," Anders noted sadly. "I guess all we can do is clean up the best we can and figure out a way to keep the next version safe."

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