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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Drinking tea

Should you feel like you were chosen to serve tea, please go ahead. Also, Seivarden will judge you if you don't want to wear gloves.

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Name, favourite tea, how you prefer to make it.

If she's here.

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

This is my first FH class ever. Is this weird?

Tisarwat

She was there, and, honestly, still a little bummed out about not having gotten placed into Shop Class like she'd been hoping, so there may be an occasional wistful, put-upon sigh escaping Tisarwat if you caught her just right today. Thankfully, though, the idea of Seivarden teaching a class, about Radchaai civilization, was amusing enough to distract her from her terrible misfortune a little, especially considering who else was in the class with her.

Nina Argentum

She didn't want to interrupt, she really didn't, but...

"Excuse me??????????" she ventured. "If we're already wearing gloves," she'd known enough to wear her frilly pink ones to class, "do we have to pick a pair of gloves from the basket??????????????????"

Lana Beniko

"Like, hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm Nina Argentum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whole leaf teas from home are probably my favourite," Nina admitted, "since, like, they're from home???????????????? But I do really appreciate a good chamomile or ginger tea………………."

Oh, the loud kid.

"Of course you should use your own," Seivarden said, offering her a nod. "I didn't expect everyone to be prepared."

Even if those gloves were terrible.

"We will discuss glove fashion in a later class."

Gloves and no teabags. At least Seivarden couldn't claim she was a completely useless student, even if she was loud.

"Any particular kind of whole leaf tea?"

"Tisarwat likes my gloves," Nina said, a touch defensively, but she beamed at the teacher anyway. "But I look forward to hearing about glove fashion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Oolong teas mostly," she said, "though my favourite of those is probably, like, Shui Hsien tea?????????????? It's got a heavy honey fragrance and is a very dark tea…………….."

Seivarden shot a glance at Tisarwat, wondering if she had been polite or just had as bad taste in fashion as she had in eye colour, but she leaned towards the former.

"It's nice to see that not all of you are barbarians though," she said with a smile.

"I'm glad to hear you appreciate good teas," Seivarden said. "I was actually surprised to discover how many good teas you can find on Earth."

Perhaps the tea tasting class she had considered wouldn't be a total waste of good tea.

"Me too," Nina admitted, "though, like, you've really got to be careful—half the things they claim are tea just aren't at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I tried their idea of iced tea once……….."

She shuddered.

"There should never be that much sugar in tea………….."

After class, when Tisarwat was about to leave, Seivarden whispered to Tisarwat:

"Did you say you liked those gloves Nina was wearing?"

Mae Borowski

Mae hunted through the gloves on offer for the most badass pair.

She'd be at this for awhile.

Why did all of them have full fingers?!

To that, Tisarwat just had to smile a little. "Of course I did," she said quietly back. "You have to admit, they are very distinctly Nina, aren't they?"

Which, of course, was not answering what she knew Seivarden was really asking.

"I'm Mae Borowski," Mae said, waving. (The fingers on her gloves were too long, wobbling like wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube men.) "Um. My mom likes the bed time tea with the sleepy bear on the box?"

That's right, she meant Celestial Seasonings. Not only was it in bags, it was herbal tea. . . .

Lana hadn't been wearing her gloves, but she did have them with her, so she pulled them on. They were sensible, grey, and partly armoured.

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