fandomhigh | Drama, Monday, Period 4

"Good afternoon!" Lito said to his students, once they were all assembled in the front row of the auditorium, because seriously, this was drama, what did they need a regular classroom for? "I am Mr. Rodriguez, and I will be your teacher. I'm afraid I am a bit new at this, so please bear with me. Now, drama is an art form, yes? It's about making people believe something is real that isn't. It's about...well, it's about lying. So that is what you're going to do this week. You're going to lie to me. It's an improvisation exercise. Introduce yourselves. Give me your real name, because I need to check you off on this roster, but anything else that comes out of your mouth should not be true, and it should be convincing. I, for example, am a pharmacist from Barcelona who was recently working in San Francisco, before I discovered my passion for the stage." He sounded very convincing, and stood one hundred percent prepared, with some assistance, to convince them this was true. Or they could Google him on their phones. "Now, you," he said, picking a student at random. "Who are you?"

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Okay, this whole exercise seemed to be without any merit. Which would be why Thorin was aggressively frowning throughout the entire thing.

"I am Thorin, son of Thrain. My home is..." He sighed in annoyance. "Khazad-Dum. My family are all miners."

There. He lied. And it was awful.

You would thank Lito one of these days, Thorin. Just you wait and see.

"Do you not like Khazad-Dum? Is it unpleasant there?" Oh, Lito, you have no idea. (Also, Lito had completely butchered the pronunciation, but hey, he'd tried.)

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He was dramatic enough all on his own!

"I have never been," Thorin replied, making a face as the poor word was butchered. "It is infested with goblins and trolls."

And a Balrog! Just for funsies.

"So where do your family live, if your home is full of goblins and trolls?"

"...in Lothlorien," he replied after struggling for a settlement near Khazad-Dum that wasn't elvish. Ugh. "Where we plan to retake our home."

In, like, ten years that'll be sad.

"I wish you the best of luck with that," Lito said, sounding totally sincere.

No, really, good luck with that.

"You have my thanks." Thorin managed to make that sound grave. It was sort of a family trait to make everything sound like that.

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