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Exit Strategies, Monday, Period 2

Once more, Aphra was at the head of the classroom sim and looking like she had many regrets over teaching a morning class.

The sim itself was set up with two person tables which she directed the class to sit at. "Now there's a lot of moving parts that go into creating an exit strategy, some you can control, some you can't so today we're going to talk about the one you really, really can't, which is people. Today we're looking at the buddy system!"

Aphra waited a beat then pressed a control, and everyone suddenly found themselves hand-cuffed to the person they were sitting next to. It sim itself also changed from a classroom to a crashed shuttle (not on fire, for once, Aphra was working up to that). "Oh no, the prisoner transport crashed," Aphra declared dramatically. "Can you make it to the end of class without being recaptured?"

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"No, you don't," Vi agreed, even if under normal circumstances they'd likely ignore Tahani. "Which is why we need to get out."

Work with her here.

"I'm too young to die!"

Was having a meltdown helping?

Not at all. It was in fact the opposite of helping.

Vi weighed up her options, then moved to try and hoist Tahani up over her shoulders.

Tahani wailed louder. "Why are you trying to carry me?!"

"Because you're not very good at escaping!"

Obviously.

"I'm wearing the wrong shoes!"

She was always wearing the wrong shoes for escaping. And hiking. And...most of life, but they looked so cute.

This was how a budding crush died on the vine.

"Then either take them off or let me carry you!"

Tahani looked down at the ground, wrinkling her nose. "I'll probably get some kind of foot fungus if I touch the ground."

And there was Vi trying to heave Tahani up over her shoulder again.

Edited 2022-01-12 02:11 (UTC)

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