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"Sooooo…" Cecil started excitedly. "Parents' weekend!" He threw out his hands. "What do you think?"

"I think there are going to be a lot of nosy people coming to the island this weekend," Kanan offered, because somebody had to be the party pooper here, and apparently he had taken it upon himself as his own personal solemn duty. Or something. "Poking around people's business, asking around about whoever they're here to see..."

Somebody was just bitter that he didn't have anybody who could visit him. Don't mind Kanan.

Cecil rolled his eyes. "People visiting and checking out your teachers," he said with the perfect equanimity of someone who didn't have an office, "and your friends, and just the whole place in general. And I mean, I'm sure they mean well, right? But maybe they'll be alarmed at the open library, or the actual computers, or whatever."

"So," Kanan said, not looking terribly thrilled at the prospect of anybody's parents coming to check out the teachers, thank you, "let's talk about that. Let's talk about the things around the island that you're looking forward to showing off, if you have somebody coming. Or the things you'd rather they not see."

"And if you don't have anyone coming," Cecil said, "how do you plan on handling everybody else's someones? Hide all weekend, or be really nice, or scare them off, or what? Let's trade ideas!"

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Khadgar

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Kuzco

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Oh yeah, it's that weekend this week, isn't it?

Whether you have somebody coming for you this weekend or not, how are you planning on making it through? Is there anything about the island that you'd want visitors to see? Or to never see? And what about coping with strangers? Anything you'd rather they not notice while they're here, too?

"I don't have anyone coming for me," Khadgar said, "and I don't know if anyone is coming for my roommate, so I suppose I could just hide in my room all weekend and avoid the whole thing. I don't know if that's really a viable option though. I suppose if anyone asks me anything, I can just smile and say I'm new? It's not a lie, exactly."

"I wish I had that option," Kanan replied, smiling wryly. "I'm pretty sure 'new' isn't an excuse for teachers."

Kanan, you were the one who kept actually showing up for classes. That sort of thing just encouraged the moose to keep signing you up to teach more.

"Why? Is there anything in particular that you're worried they'll ask you?"

"The most common question I get from people who are from around here is where I'm from or what time I'm from because I don't dress like everyone else," Khadgar said with a smirk. "If someone's parents think I stick out, they might not like me telling them I'm from somewhere they've never heard of."

"And given how many different places people can come from here, there's really no right answer if that's going to be the case," Kanan allowed. "I suppose you could try telling them that you're from a small town, but if you stick out that much, they'll probably just want to know what planet. Or country. Or something."

Khadgar thought about that for a moment, and then broke into a grin. "I suppose I don't... necessarily need to tell them the truth, do I?"

Sorry Kanan, it was questions like that that made Khadgar's previous teachers not miss him very much.

Well, shame on them, because it was a question like that that made Kanan approve all the more.

"I'd say you could probably get away with half-truths or some creative storytelling," he agreed, clearly amused. "Just so long as you can keep track of the story you're telling, why not? It isn't like these people are going to be here for long, anyway."

"Yzma's whole world revolves around me!" Kuzco chirped. "She'll love to see how much I've blossomed here, and then she'll let me blow this popsicle stand almost immediately!"

Yeah, no.

"And wouldn't that be lucky?"

You know, for Kuzco. Super lucky for Kuzco.

"Though now you know I have to ask in what way you figure you've blossomed."

"I've made so many new friends," Kuzco said. "Everyone adores me."

The denial was strong with this one.

Yeah, Kanan could tell. He was doing an admirable job of keeping an amused smirk from his face, though.

"And that's blossoming, huh? You didn't have friends back home?"

Leave it to Kanan to poke at things that probably hadn't intentionally been put there to be poked at.

When they tag in.

Kanan was here if anybody wanted to talk. Or if they didn't want to talk. Basically, Kanan was here regardless, because it was his karking job.

Know where else he had a job? His own galaxy. Where anybody he'd like to have visit him was dead.

Kanan was trying not to be in a mood today.

Cecil was here! ♥Carlos♥ probably wouldn't make it in from the desert underworld he was stuck in, but meeting new people could be interesting!

I didn't watch the debate. I skimmed Twitter and quietly hummed 'O Canada' to myself.

So did I.

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