How To Get By In A Hostile World, Wednesday

[suitably_heroic]

The class met in the Danger Shop this last time. It was set up as a giant chamber full of consoles and controls and screens and a giant window from which you could see the stars all around.

And then there was a desk, behind which Atton was sitting with his feet propped up on it because, duh, of course.

"Hey," he said. "I figure most of you deserve a passing grade just because this island hasn't killed you yet. You wanna shoot for the stars and get higher than passing, you can try and get off this space station. You don't, you can go home right now."

Beat.

"Except for you, Sparks." He threw a box onto the desk. "Pizza."

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Re: Talk to the TA

[myownface]

"But it'd make for a great summer workshop," Sparkle mused. "And by the end of the summer term, nobody on the island would ever go hungry again. And, I mean, you can cover other things. Like anchovies and why they're evil. Or stuffed crust - delicious pizza enhancement, or cheap salty gimmick?"

Re: Talk to the TA

[suitably_heroic]

"Isn't there this one company that puts hotdogs in your crust?" Atton said, pulling a face. "Now that's criminal."

Re: Talk to the TA

[myownface]

"Oh, nasty! Who the hell thought that up?"

Sparkle looked properly offended, at least.

"Like, I can see putting real sausage or something in there, whatever. But hot dogs? God, Mother Nature never intended that sort of monstrosity."

Hopefully.

Re: Talk to the TA

[suitably_heroic]

"To be fair, I think that goes for most pizza," Atton said.

Before taking a bite of his own pizza.

"But yeah, it's pretty gross." Beat. "I could warn people off that for a summer, sure."

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[myownface]

"A whole summer of eating good pizza, and warning people off of the nasty shit," Sparkle mused. "Sounds to me like you have yourself a whole workshop, there."

Sparkle had low standards, apparently.

Re: Talk to the TA

[suitably_heroic]

'sokay. So did Atton.

"I was thinking about something more focused next term," he mused. "Maybe self-defense, for all of you scrawny kids out there."

He was perfectly willing to turn his class schedule into the 'Keeping Sparkle Fed and Also Not Dead' happy hour, especially if it involved other scrawny idiots getting fed and not dead in the process.

Re: Talk to the TA

[myownface]

Sparkle chewed on his lip for a moment, and then he gave a nod of agreement.

"I was actually thinking about taking some kind of self-defense class," he admitted. "Like, I'm surprised there hasn't been something like it here sooner, considering how much time we spent being attacked by shit. If you taught it, man, I'd take it."

Re: Talk to the TA

[suitably_heroic]

"I think there's been a couple of classes," Atton offered. "Just not for our batch, apparently."

He shrugged.

"I know enough about blasters and hand-to-hand, I can pull it off."

Re: Talk to the TA

[myownface]

"Well, if they're not for our batch, they don't do me any good, do they?" Sparkle gave Atton a little grin. "But yeah, you could totally do it. I mean, you've saved my stupid ass a few times, that says something."

Mostly that Sparkle's stupid ass needed saving a lot.

Re: Talk to the TA

[suitably_heroic]

"Speaking of which," Atton said lightly, "You want to come along to the Temple for a couple of days during the break? I figure if that place is good for something, it's teaching people how not to let ghosts waltz into their brains."

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[myownface]

Oooh, temple. Sparkle could get behind that.

He maybe liked things in that galaxy that Atton came from. It was... big and exciting and still all weirdly familiar.

"Yeah, sure," he said easily. "I wouldn't mind checking the place out. And, you know, the ghost thing. Because of course I got the stupid ghost. Of course."