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Class today was to meet in the Danger Shop; when they got there, they'd find themselves in a bright little gazebo on a sunny day, though there was an odd fog concealing the landscape

"Welcome!" Bob grinned. "We could probably have done this outside, but...well, the safety protocols seemed like a good idea." And then he'd gotten a bit creative.

"Today, you've got a different sort of equipment." Which Anders had probably noticed was suspiciously light as he carried the box from Portalocity. Bob waved at the box, inside of which were brightly coloured life-vests. "Everybody put one on, and then your task for the day is to race to the other gazebo exactly like this one on the far side of the room. Doctor Lecter kindly ~~was nagged into~~ donated chocolates for you all to share once you arrive. Winner gets the best choices," he pointed out.

"Winner won't necessarily be the fastest, though" he said, grinning. "You've also got to find your way there." He gestured and the fog lifted, to show a hedge wall several stories high. "The hedges form a maze. You'll have to think to get through it. Oh," he added as if in afterthought, "and it's three-dimensional. So you'll want to work on your flying."

He smiled at them all. "Any questions?"

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"Lottie, Lottie, Lottie! Hi!" Alluka said cheerfully, flailing her way after Lottie. Alluka was not super great at flying, but she was enthusiastic about it! "Can I come with you?"

Pleaaaase?

"Sure!" Lottie said. She was always up for enthusiastic company. Alluka reminded her a little of Little Claire -- only probably not that into setting things on fire. "D'ya happen to know anythin about the THIRD DIMENSION?"

The way she said this, one might think that it was something mysterious and impenetrable, rather than just "up" and "down".

Alluka windmilled to a stop in front of Lottie and blinked.

"Um." She thought hard about that. "It's really big?"

It SOUNDED like it should be really big! That had to be it!

That sounded legit to Lottie. "It does tend to keep goin into space," she said.

Alluka beamed at having gotten it right.

"This is a pretty small space though," she said, looking at the maze. "I mean, it's big, but space is the biggest."

"That it is, my friend," Lottie said wisely. "That it is.

"Course, we still gotta learn to navigate it."

"Maybe there's secret signs to help us out?" Alluka asked hopefully. "Or, or arrows pointing the right way!"

Which would defeat the purpose of the maze, yes.

"I would guess 'no' on the arrows," Lottie said. "Secret signs are a possibility, though!"

"And lots of flying! Maybe, maybe the signs are hidden so you have to fly to find them?"

Why else would they get to have so much fun?

Yeah, nobody wanted Bob to add signs to the maze. They would probably all point at walls, just to be contrary.

"We'll look about a bit," Lottie decided. "But not for too long. We don't want to get to the gazebo last and miss all the chocolates."

"I want all the chocolates," Alluka agreed. "Though I'd share with you."

And with Anders.

And... anyone else she felt like it at the time.

"Maybe the secrets would lead to it faster!"

"Not if we can't find 'em," Lottie said. "C'mon, then. We'd best be off or Dipper'll beat us to it."

Dipper was clearly the only competition Lottie had in the class.

... That was probably true.

"Why would Dipper beat us to it?" Alluka said, obediently ready to follow where Lottie lead. "Is he mean? Isn't he Mabel's brother? That should make him nice."

"Nice doesn't mean you don't try to win," Lottie said. "And he's my roommate. There's a whole roommate rivalry thing."

Alluka blinked.

"Roommate rivalry thing?"

"Like sibling rivalry, only with roommates?"

Alluka... just looked deeply puzzled.

"My brothers and I aren't like that," she said. "I don't understand."

Her brothers were like that with each other, but Alluka didn't know that.

"Do they live with you? My sister and I had loads of rivalry, but it went right away when she went to college."

"They don't visit me in my room very often," Alluka said honestly, "but they all live at home."

"Do you hide in your room a lot?"

"I'm not allowed to leave my room." Alluka looked down at her feet. "So we're still in my room here, because I didn't use a door."

And she was still hoping a lot that her parents accepted that as an excuse.

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