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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""This is something people do?" asked Rey, who was trying to watch everyone else to see how they did this.

Tip hadn't exactly had a lot of friends, either, and by the time she and her mom had the money to think about sending her to summer camp, she'd felt like she was too old for it. So friendship bracelets weren't in her wheelhouse.

"Do they have to have the little knots? Or can we just braid them? Because I can definitely braid."

"I don't think it really matters how," Astrid mused, working in a few beads, because she liked how they looked and felt, "as long as they're generally bracelet-like? What's the point of just trying to make as many as we can, though? Are they going to sell them in the black market?"

Genuine psychopath made artifacts! The real deal! Like all those trinkets made through enrichment programs for kids in Africa.

Somewhere, in another place and time, an older Astrid was laughing and didn't know why.

"Because how many different ways can you gamify bracelets?" Tip said. "Why did we make outfits for gremlins?"

Rey paused. "We aren't making these for gremlins, are we? Or something gremlin-related?"

"I hope not," Astrid said, "those things give me the creeps. And they're definitely not our friends."

Summer Games [Wednesday, June 20, 2018]

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