The Magic of Plants, Wednesday, Per 3

[glacial_queen]

It felt good to be back on the island again and in front of a class. Even though it seemed like she only came to the island these days when everything was exploding, Karla still missed Fandom and all of its whimsical madness. Though since she did have a class to teach, she should probably get on that, rather than reminiscing about the times she'd had class in this very room and the state of her old locker.

"Hello, class, and welcome to the Magic of Plants," she said, giving her class an easy smile. "Which, depending on where you're from, might have a disappointing ratio of magic to plants. This isn't some introduction to witchcraft--that's not how my Craft works--we are going to learn to unlock a lot of the uses of some common plants you might come across in your day to day life. You likely already know that plants are integral to our survival as a species; they feed us, clothe us, shelter us, provide us the bases for a great many medications and remedies. Also, tea, coffee, and chocolate all come from plants and without those necessities, we'd have to have serious conversations about how much of life is actually worth living."

Because coffee. Life-giving, precious coffee.

"But since you've all been on the island for at least a semester, then you know what the first week is for. So, introductions! Name, class, why you took this course, and then an old favorite ice breaker of mine--two truths and a lie. Tell the class two truths about yourself and one lie and we'll all guess which one is a lie. And then once that's done, we're going to use plants to make papyrus sheets like your Ancient...Sumerians did? No, that doesn't sound right, hold on." Karla looked at her phone to double check. "Ah! Ancient Egyptians! Right, like the Ancient Egyptians did."

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Re: Introductions

[somethingwithturquoise]

"The cat one?" Summer's brows lifted because that was the one she felt most confidently about, but then she shook her head. "No, no, it's the first one. He isn't first generation Italian, he's either gotta be, like, directly from Italy or second-generation, right?"

Re: Introductions

[intotheout]

Tip shrugged. "I never met my dad. But if he was Italian like Mom, she probably would have mentioned it."

Re: Introductions

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Dang it!" Summer snapped her fingers. "So it was the cat one? That's good. That's really good. It would be kind of cool to have the last natural born cat on Earth, but also kind of sad." She wrinkled her nose a little with a worried look. "Are there still cats on your Earth? They're not, like, a staple of the Boov diet or something, are they?"

She was trying--and failing--to remember if they talked about that sort of thing.