Sleeping With Your Eyes Open, January 10, 2018, 3rd period

[sith_happened]

"Right," Anakin said, slapping a huge briefing paper on each student's desk as they arrived. "Another key problem in diplomacy is trying to keep up with all of the studies and briefings and fights via email about your area of expertise. Here's a hint: you never will. So you will need to learn to skim quickly and be able to talk with authority with very little actual knowledge."

Somewhere Obi-Wan was despairing of Anakin's technique.

"To that end, you have ten minutes to read the tome in front of you and then brief the class on this, your new area of expertise." He smiled. "And pray that no one in the room has more actual expertise than you do."

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Re: Talk!

[notamascot]

Right. Kaylin couldn't skim, much less read this, in 3 hours. She looked up. "Um... so there were Emmuhs? And they looked like weird birds? And there was a war."

Re: Talk!

[sith_happened]

"The birds fought in a war? Are they like the mighty chinchillas that Norman was telling us about?" Anakin asked.

Re: Talk!

[notamascot]

"Well... They look bigger than grapefruits," Kaylin said a little uncertainly. "So... maybe not. Wait, grapefruits are those things like oranges, right? Yes, bigger than that."

Unless the man in the picture had been ridiculously tiny.