Ethics, Wednesday, September 18, 2019

[sith_happened]

Anakin was nowhere to be seen when Ethics class began, but there was an enormous bowl of (real, this time) Halloween candy on his desk.

There was a sign next to it that said, "TAKE ONLY THREE."

Inside the bowl were full-sized candy bars, as well as smaller "fun-sized" ones, Reese's Cups, Starbursts, those weird Bit o' Honeys, and even apples and boxes of raisins.

Was there a trick here today too?

Oh, probably. Pick your treats anyway.

Comments

Re: Explain your choice!

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

And by the fall of Tisarwat's shoulders, she very clearly was, too.

"Oh," she said, frowning as she looked down at them in her palm. "Then why call them that? Are they named after someone, like...the Mr. Goodbar?"

She could only assume that there was an actual Mr. Goodbar, after all.

Re: Explain your choice!

[sith_happened]

"I looked this up!" Anakin said, looking pleased with himself. "Apparently 'to smart' meant that your face does that puckery thing when something is too tart. So Smarties make you pucker. Or did. I don't think they're all that tart, personally."

Re: Explain your choice!

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Tisarwat had to grin a little at the very clear pride the Dean had taken in having the answer to such a simple question. Then she asked, "May I try them?"

Because, sure, just because someone had started to eat the candy (and, truth be told, that was the only reason how Tisarwat even knew they were snacks, but she had her suspicions, because it wasn't like candy wasn't a thing in the Radch, and there was obviously something multiversinal about small treats in brightly colored foiled wrappings), didn't mean they were actually intended to eat it. Since their only clear direction was simply to take some.

Three. The directive was to take three which that person had also not done.

Re: Explain your choice!

[sith_happened]

"Please do," Anakin said. "Let me know if you like any."