fandomhigh | Summer Games [Wednesday, June 20, 2018]

"Hello, and welcome to our final summer game before we go on a break next week!" Anakin yelled through his megaphone in his usual spot in the park. Around him were tables covered in just about every color of embroidery floss you could think of--heavy on the rainbow colors for Pride--as well as beads and other accessories to make things pretty. "Today you will be working together to make as many friendship bracelets as you can in a timed period. The winner gets the fish."

He reached his hand out and the Frankenfish came flying in from...wherever it had been lurking this week. It was now neon bright, with teeth and a brand-new carving and could probably be seen from space. Don't launch it there to check. "The winner will keep this amazing prize for two weeks. Please do not launch it into the sun."

He pulled out a sheet of paper. "Now listen for your group:

Teachers: Kitty, Jenkins, Kanan, Amaya
Townies: Brooke, Peter, Jono, Hera
Townies: Hannibal, Miguel, Eliot, Mitsutada
Students 1: Rey, Tip, Astrid, Aloy
Students 2: Sabine, Norman, Sidon, Paris
Students 3: Summer, Breq, Dante, Beaker"

He gestured to the tables. "There are instructions on making friendship bracelets on your tables. You have a half hour. Ready...go!"

Did this seem too easy to anyone else?

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"More knots," Kanan sighed, reaching for the green embroidery floss. "Alright, let's see if I manage to tie myself to anybody else this time around."

Probably not. Hera wasn't in his group this week.

"Why do we need teams to make bracelets?" Kitty said, because she didn't trust this.

"Because Skywalker has something up his sleeve," Kanan decided. "I have no idea what, but if it invovles gremlins again, I'm leaving."

Amaya didn't quite care for all this dainty-work; she had to take off her gloves to do it, but it was easy enough, and she was a bit of a workhorse, so she shrugged.

"Maybe not," she suggested, clearly the newest in this group, and therefor delightfully naive and oblivious. "I mean, it could all just be more of that summer camp friendship and teamwork rigmarole..."

She wasn't that naive, though, which explained the lifted brows and the slight upturn in her voice as she asked, "Right?"

Kitty briefly looked up at her, and silently shook her head.

Kanan spread his hands a little, trying a look on that was going for reassuring.

"I want to say we're due for it eventually. But he made us launch a kid at a target last week."

Yes, Kanan. And your team had won that.

"Depending on the child, they may well have enjoyed that," Jenkins mused. He was staring at the bracelet making supplies with a bemused expression.

Jenkins had been around for a very, very long time, but he had never been a preteen girl, and friendship bracelets were neither knight business nor Library business.

"Do any of us actually know how to do this?"

"I know the basic braiding one," Kitty said. "Hopefully we're not supposed to do more complicated stuff if we're going for quantity."

"They haven't been too picky on quality so far," Amaya pointed out, while working on braiding together some blue, grey, and brown. "Don't know why they'd start now."

Kanan just picked up his green thread and tied a knot every few inches.

... Progress.

"Yeah, I'm not going to be the most valued player this week."

Summer Games [Wednesday, June 20, 2018]

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