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fandomhigh2017-08-31 06:45 am
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How To Get By In A Hostile World, Thursday
"Welcome to Weaseling 101," Atton announced as the class finished filtering into the room. "Better known on your schedule as How To Get By In A Hostile World. Now, I'm going to be honest with you people: I'm a Jedi. I have fancy powers and officially, some disembodied Force has my back all around the galaxy. But before I was a Jedi, I was just another idiot caught in the middle of bigger forces than me, trying to scrape by."
He leaned onto the desk. "My world has a habit of going to war with itself, and the only way I made it through the first decade or so of being on my own was by thinking on my feet," he said. "Exploring the weaknesses of people stronger than me, figuring out how to squeak by unnoticed, that kind of thing."
He considered the class. "I've been a soldier," he said, "I've been a pilot. I've been an assassin. I got to be all of those things and live because I learned a whole bag of tricks: how to cheat at cards, how to talk my way out of a sticky situation, how to work my way around people trying to use their powers on me. These are the skills that are invaluable as long as you don't have special powers of your own to keep you alive, and I'm here to share some of them."
Atton nodded at a random student. "Talk to me," he said. "Who are you? What situation are you facing? What are you hoping to get out of this class? That kind of thing. Introductions are useful here, because a technique is only helpful if it's tailored to your actual situation."
He leaned onto the desk. "My world has a habit of going to war with itself, and the only way I made it through the first decade or so of being on my own was by thinking on my feet," he said. "Exploring the weaknesses of people stronger than me, figuring out how to squeak by unnoticed, that kind of thing."
He considered the class. "I've been a soldier," he said, "I've been a pilot. I've been an assassin. I got to be all of those things and live because I learned a whole bag of tricks: how to cheat at cards, how to talk my way out of a sticky situation, how to work my way around people trying to use their powers on me. These are the skills that are invaluable as long as you don't have special powers of your own to keep you alive, and I'm here to share some of them."
Atton nodded at a random student. "Talk to me," he said. "Who are you? What situation are you facing? What are you hoping to get out of this class? That kind of thing. Introductions are useful here, because a technique is only helpful if it's tailored to your actual situation."
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She sounded like she knew a few things.
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