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"All right, so," Kitty said, looking at her notecards not because she didn't remember the material, but because the wording was something she sometimes had to get exact. "This class is apparently going to be on the different institutions involved in justice. Namely, 'The three basic parts of Criminal Justice are the Police- and concerned citizens who fight crime in colored spandex-" Kitty raised her own hand at that. "-the Courts, and Corrections. Police capture criminals, courts throw them in prison if they're found guilty, and corrections keep them in prison until their dues to society have been paid.' Which is a little simplistic, to say the least, but keep in mind that last week the extra credit was about cute kittens and we're probably not getting a ton deeper with this particular syllabus.

"...And there's a kitten theme because for our discussion, we have a hypothetical: if you found someone juggling kittens against their will, what would you do? Since there is no law against Kitten Juggling. I'm also going to say this means those kittens are unharmed, but not unjuggled. So I guess what you would expect those three basic parts of criminal justice to do to a kitten juggler."

Kitty maybe looked like she was regretting the old kitten theme.

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Juggling kittens?

Astrid Magnussen

Shuri

Bobby Drake

Theron Shan

Okay.

So. Kitten jugglers. What should happen to them?

"I think," said Astrid, after a moment of realizing that she was giving this far more thought that kitten juggling really deserved, "that if the kittens didn't really like juggling, that they'd have the means to let the juggler know, by scratching or trying to escape."

Which was her way of saying she just might let those kitten remain juggled, without actually having to say it, but even by not saying it, she realized she felt a little bad about saying it.

So she added, "But I might also mention to him that maybe, if he was going to juggle something, kittens might not be the best way to go."

It would really depend on how she was feeling that day, truth be told.

"What if the totally unharmed kittens also can't fight back because they are small, and currently being juggled, which probably makes it hard to scratch?"

How was that a question she just asked.

Astrid had a feeling that would be the follow up. She nodded a little.

"I guess," she ventured, "that would be when I'd suggest maybe he try juggling something else."

Which she mostly just said because admitting you would probably just mind your own damn business was probably not exactly the 'right' answer, even if it was true. She was starting to believe pretty firmly that getting involved in other people's juggling was just asking for trouble.

She had her own juggling to worry about.

"If he doesn't stop, do you arrest him? Or do you just let him juggle away?" Kitty asked.

Claire would probably stop him, a small voice in Astrid's head said. She would cry and scream and beg for him to stop and probably tear out her hair and wring her hands until he did.

But Astrid wasn't Claire.

And Ingrid, the voice now supplied, would offer to go find him more kittens. And then goad him to throw knives into the mix.

But Astrid wasn't Ingrid, either.

She frowned.

"You said that the kittens weren't being harmed by this juggling, right?" she asked, as if that really even mattered. If a person had no problem with harming kittens by juggling them, they probably wouldn't have many problems harming young women indecisive about whether or not to stop them, either.

"Correct," Kitty said. "They will not feel well, though."

"And it's not illegal," Astrid noted, for the record. "So, no, I don't think I'd do much. I can't arrest him if it's not illegal. But I could give him some bad reviews. And maybe let a veterinarian know."

"Are the kittens being juggled against their will, or is the juggler being forced to juggle them against their will?" Shuri asked. "Is this an angry mob of kittens coercing perfectly harmless bystanders?"

"I was waiting for someone to ask this question, because I have no earthly idea," Kitty admitted. "What would you do in either case?"

"Is 'recording it on my phone' quite wrong?" Shuri asked.

"Are you recording distressed kittens being juggled?"

Which... all right that did sound adorable.

"Yeeeeeeeeees," Shuri said slowly, looking conflicted. "For evidence."

"I have another question that amounts to 'What questions do you have about justice?'" Kitty said. "So this could be good."

"And for extra credit, you can come up here and juggle anything that is not a kitten. I will take attempts."

Please do this. It sounded amazing.

Astrid...did not know how to juggle, so her attempts at easy extra credit (that she was pretty sure didn't really count for anything anyway) would not be as easy as her attempts last week.

But she did try, with a couple of pencils she had in her backpack.

And then decided that, since she didn't think an eyepatch would be a good look for her, she should maybe not try to juggle pencils after all.

Good thing erasers were soft.

Edited 2020-01-20 20:10 (UTC)

Who'd probably never said the word "kitten" this much and it was literally something people called her.

I take no credit/blame.

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