fandomhigh | Laying Low for Beginners, Thursday, Period 1

Kanan, who was back to normal with the minor exception of a streak of blue and a streak of pink left in his hair from the week before, had asked his students to gather in the danger shop today, where the place was set up to resemble the inside of a small cabin, with mostly trees visible through the window.

"Since class took a bit of an unexpected detour last week, I'm going to take two of the topics on my lesson plan and cover them here. They both fit neatly under 'running away,' anyway," he began. The less said about Caleb the better, apparently. "Sometimes, even if you've been careful to keep your head down and avoid notice, it might become necessary to bid a hasty retreat. Which, if you've played your cards right in the lead-up to that retreat, hopefully isn't a mad scramble. If it is... let's try to mitigate that for you some, today."

He leaned back against the cabin's only door, arms crossed over his chest, and nodded around the room.

"When you end up somewhere new, work out a game plan. Understand your surroundings. Caleb wasn't wrong entirely when he," still embracing that third person, thank you, "told you to ask questions. In this case, you're going to have to answer those questions for yourselves. Nobody is going to just hand you the answers. How long can you survive out there if you were to set out on foot? What supplies will you need? Are there predators out there? Enemies? Have you got a means of keeping contact with others in case something goes wrong? Is there anything, especially personal items, that you refuse to leave behind, no matter how impractical it might seem to take with you?"

He waved his hand around the cabin.

"Ask those questions among yourselves, and work out some answers. Figure out a game plan for escape, and then for continued survival, if you have to spend any amount of time in the woods. Plan for the possibility of communications blackouts. Plan for the impossibility of vehicles or mounts, leaving you navigating those woods on foot. Is there weather you'll have to survive? What will you do if you're being pursued. What do you refuse to leave behind? And then pull together the supplies you'll need. Band together if you believe in strength in numbers. Give the woods a try."

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