fandomhigh | How To Be Civilized, Friday, Period 3

When the students arrived, they found the chairs rearranged in a half-circle and with a small table to one side. An elegant Japanese tea set was placed on it, along with a basket with gloves.

"So," Seivarden said when everyone was gathered. "Welcome to the class. I'm Seivarden Vendaai, and I currently live on the island. Sadly Portalocity is a wonder of technological malfunction as it has been unable to open a portal back to my own universe, but while I'm here the school decided to invite me to teach you how to be civilized."

There had been an... argument with the moose when Seivarden had found out she had been assigned this class.

"I'm Radchaai, and one thing we do when annexing other worlds is to make sure they get the benefits of civilized life and are able to take part in society without their previous limitations. Even if you're not from my universe, I'm sure you will find this useful."

Seivarden gestured towards Tisarwat. "My TA, whom most of you probably know, is also from the Radch, and she will be happy to answer any questions you might have."

"This is the first class, so let's start off easy. Put on a pair of gloves if you haven't already," she gestured at the basket, "and you," here she gestured at one of the students, "please serve everyone some tea."

"Yes, tea. It's a fundamental part of civilization. Now, we are all lucky here, because the tea on Earth is one of the few things that are actually up to standard here, so we will be able to try out a few different kinds during this class. For today I've chosen a rather nice Yunnan tea, not a too fancy, but it would definitely work of you wanted to have a small tea party with friends whom you value but you might not have to impress. We'll get to tea parties in a later class."

"Since I don't know any of you, I would like you to tell me your name and which tea you prefer and how you usually prepare it."

Mention tea bags and you will be judged.

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She will answer any questions you might have, even the stupid ones.

Amaya was sort of hoping that, by now, Seivarden had maybe forgotten about that whole thing about owing her a phone call in light of the kidnapped business, but she figured a follow-up, at least, would be appreciated.

Besides, it was Seivarden's first class today, so, if anything, she had a good excuse for actually stopping by, and that would be what she started with, when she headed over at the end of the period.

"So," she said by way of greeting, "looks like you survived!"

No, she didn't realize the irony in the choice of words, unfortunately.

"As did you. I asked Rosa to tell you to call me, but I assumed you had been captured by that goat... thing."

She had been worried.

Ahhh, zards! So she hadn't forgotten the whole thing with the phone call!

"Yeah," Amaya's expression was a little apologetic but mostly just wry, "she told me. Because I had been captured by that goat thing! And I would have. Called you, that is. Only I don't have a phone at the moment, since we all sort of turned most of the ones we had on us into grenades to blow a hole in the volcano we were stuck in."

Because, you know, those details should certainly help with making her not be worried.

"But, hey! First class! How'd it go?"

Subject change? Whaaaat? No.

"She told you?"

Seivarden couldn't hold back her surprise.

"At least you're back. The class went well, I think. At least some of them know about tea."

And the fact that Seivarden was surprised that the message had been passed along surprised Amaya in turn, which was just confusing, because why would she have even given Diaz the message if she hadn't intended for it to be passed along with the first place?

She'd long ago stopped trying to make sense of those two, anyway, so she was just going to move right on from it, especially since it was all too close to the getting kidnapped topic that she was trying to avoid, anyway.

"And that's a good start!" Amaya said. "That's practically half the way there already, right?"

"I wouldn't say half the way," Seivarden said, grinning. "But it's a good start. What about your class?"

"So far, so good!" Amaya said, the pride already there in her grin even if it'd been just the one class so far. "Only a few of them this time around, but that suits me just fine, it means I can work with them more closely and really shift things around to suit their needs. Didn't do much this week, just a little metal stamping, but next week I'll probably start introducing them to the equipment."

Seivarden smiled a little. "Best not to scare them. No one who is likely to cause a disaster?"

She had heard of Beaker on radio, but didn't know if he was still around.

Only to sub for Amaya when she had to flee! Which pleased her far more than it probably should.

"Not in this group, I don't think," she said with a fond smile. "Some of them have even taken the class before. But, then again, you'd never know with these students, they do have a way of surprising you. Which I'm sure you'll get to learn firsthand here soon enough. How's your crop?"

"They... some of them surprised me, I suppose. One of them seem to have... glove issues."

She smiled. "They could have been worse, I suppose. My expectations weren't high."

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