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Working Together - Monday, 3rd Period

The room was set up with the confidence course down the middle.

On one of the other walls was a projected list:

DANDELION
NERF
GRAVE DIRT
NATTO
JOYSTICK
TRAIN

"Welcome back. Your team captains so far have been Lana, Prompto, and Norman. You've walked past the confidence course, thrown it aside, and gone over it. Time for a new captain and a new way to do the course.

Today's exercise might take more than today. You have until next class to complete it because it will take you outside this room. It's a scavenger hunt with a twist. The rules:

If you know what the word is, you aren't allowed to be the person who retrieves the item. Nor are you allowed to lead others to the item or tell them where to find it or what it is. You are only allowed to answer yes or no questions about it and you may only answer with yes or no. Internet searches are not allowed.

The team captain is responsible for collecting all the items - and it can be the actual item or a photo representation of the item as long as you first went out and found the item first.

Happy hunting."

[OCD is up!]

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"Earth has a lot more different climates than I'm used to on one planet," Lana said. "Dromund Kaas is almost completely jungle, and Korriban's all desert. Is this a dandelion?"

It was sort of yellow. She wasn't taking any chances.

Norman squinted at it.

"I think that's called thimbleweed," he offered. "Also not a dandelion."

... Really, you'd think dandelion would be the first flower they tried.

There were certainly enough of them. Blame whoever kept the school grounds for doing too good a job.

"So you're from a small city, then? Kaas City is huge, and I've never lived anywhere else apart from the temple. What's it like?"

"Blithe Hollow? It's barely a city," Norman replied with a shrug. "It's kind of more like a town with delusions of grandeur. It feels like it needs a gimmick in order to even get people to visit, and the gimmick they picked, other towns do way better, anyway."

Sorry, Blithe Hollow. Salem had you beat.

"What's their gimmick?" Lana asked. She wandered a bit further toward the edge of the lawn, looking for other yellow flowers.

Norman sighed as they walked.

"A little over three centuries ago, they put someone on trial for being a witch and they hanged her."

Woo.

"That's supposed to be an incentive to visit?" Lana asked, incredulous.

"It is if the whole world thinks witches are cutesy pretend things that are mostly just fun to be scared of," Norman sighed.

"So, they killed one person hundreds of years ago for possibly spurious reasons, and that's supposed to be incentive to visit?" Lana was judging you so much, Blithe Hollow. "Is this a common thing on Earth?"

Norman paused a moment. And then shrugged a little.

"Seems to be pretty common in Massachusetts," he noted. "I haven't done much travel besides, but I wouldn't be surprised. People kinda suck."

"Always," Lana agreed. Privately, she thought that if people wanted to tour to see death, they'd be better served going someplace worse than just 'killed one person hundreds of years ago', but that seemed a bit crude to say.

She spotted a yellow flower up ahead. "Is that a dandelion?"

Yeah, but in this case, people got to pretend to be the heroes about it.

Which made Norman feel a little ill.

Aggie had been eleven.

"It is," he replied, looking down at the little puff of a flower. "Those things that are everywhere? Yeah, that's them."

Lana reached down, then hesitated and reached out with the Force to make sure it wasn't going to be deadly if plucked. She picked it carefully and held it up. "Wonderful! One down."

"One down," Norman agreed, watching that Force thing with interest before adding, "and they're harmless."

Now that she had it, he figured that was okay to say.

"Good to know," Lana said. She started heading back toward the school. "So, do they do anything interesting? Are they used for anything?" She smelled it, but it mostly just smelled green.

"Well..." Norman shrugged as they walked. "When they go to seed, the flowers turn into puffballs, and the seeds float away on the wind. And I guess people use the leaves in things like teas and salads, but they're generally a little bitter for most people's tastes."

"Hm. I think I'll pass on that, then," Lana said. "Though maybe I'll let Vette know.

"So what brought you from your tiny city to Fandom?"

"Um... My grandma said I should give it a try," Norman replied, shrugging and sticking his hands in his pockets as he headed back toward the school. "To make friends or something, I guess."

It had sort of worked?

"I can't believe I'm saying this," Lana started, "because honestly, given half a chance, I would live in the library, but - have you considered getting out a bit more?"

"... Nope, I'm fine."

Norman.

Norman, this was literally a class about teamwork, you antisocial little turd.

Norman, you were getting such a look for that. "Making friends is generally easier when you actually talk to people, you know." Lana smacked him on the shoulder with her dandelion.

"We're talking right now, aren't we?"

This was practically a marathon sprint of a conversation with a real live human person, for him.

"Because we had to for class," Lana pointed out. "You should come to Wayne's breakfasts on Monday. Or go to the park sometime. Or the coffee shop. We should have another outing to the mainland, too, the lot of us."

"I go to the coffee shop sometimes," Norman muttered. "Most of the time I end up telling off people who are being jerks to the baristas."

Which really didn't make him much more fond of the living no.

"Are you at least friends with the baristas, then?" Lana asked.

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