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Exit Strategies, Monday, Period 2

For a change, today Aphra had her class meet her on the front lawn of the school.

"Sometimes, when you need out of a situation, you need resources that you don't have ready to hand. Which means you need to get creative and find those resources." Points to anyone who could guess where this was going, especially today. "Accordingly, I have placed resources that you need around this lawn, and once you fill up your bucket you're free to leave. Happy belated zombie bunny ritual weekend!"

Yep, enjoy your half-price chocolate kids.

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Are you actually going to turn down free chocolate?

Even if she didn't have that much of a sweet tooth, Vi was never going to turn down free food, so she took her bucket and started looking for hints of foil in amongst the greenery.

Libby knew she was sheltered from how a lot of other Christians usually celebrated the Resurrection of their Lord and Savior, on account of so much of it actually being deeply rooted in pagan rituals and whatnot, but 'zombie bunny ritual' was definitely still going to catch her for a moment of confusion and more curiosity than it should have.

But that aside, the assignment was direct enough, it was nice to be outside, and it had been a while since she'd gotten to do a scavenger hunt like this as a participant and not just as a moderator to keep Littles from wandering off into the woods and settling disputes about claims to objects found, so she was going to get into it and enjoy it, and maybe, just a little, end up pretending she was on some great quest to collect magical artifacts or something like that.

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"You want to team up?" Vi, whose bucket was maybe a quarter full already, asked. "Probably more fun that way."

"Unless we made it a competition," Libby pointed out with a laugh, "but I wouldn't want to put any bad blood between us. Teaming up sounds like a much better idea."

Her own bucket....was getting there.

Honestly, she just kept getting distracted by wildlife and gentle breezes through the grass and forgetting what she was actually there for.

"Yeah, fighting over food's not my thing," Vi said, far too lightly. She ducked down to pick up an egg and toss it over to Libby. "More used to sharing anyway."

Libby almost caught the tossed egg, a little too slow and having it slip right past her fingers to tumble right back into the grass from whence it came, but she swept down to rescue it and settle it gently in her basket with a faintly sheepish smile.

"Sharing is definitely better," she agreed. "Thanks, Vi. You found any good tricks for finding them yet? I'm torn between figuring out if Dr. Aphra's more likely to have tried to make it challenging or if she just sort of scattered them all to the wind and let the candy lie where they may."

Not that torn. She definitely leaned hard in one direction there.

"Nothing's been that well hidden, so my guess is she just tossed them around."

Aphra had in fact spent several hours modding a mouse droid to launch the chocolates around the lawn for her, despite the fact it would've easier and quicker to do it herself.

"Look up," she said, pointing towards the trees. "There's more on the ground but everyone's looking down there so they're missing any up there."

Libby looked up.

"Oh! I wouldn't have even thought to check the trees!"

But now that she did, she spotted a few of them, even in just this one.

"Do you think we can reach them from here?" she asked, looking back at Vi. "Or do you think one of us will have to climb up?"

Vi shugged. "It's surprising how many people only look at what's on their level. Or maybe they just don't think it's necessary."

She considered the tree. "I can climb," she said. "Unless you want to."

Libby smile went a little softer at that bit of wisdom from Vi, because, really, she should probably remember something like that. Especially when she'd grown up basically being expected to never look beyond where she was told to.

But the answer to the question was easy, and she shook her head. "You're probably much better at it than I am," she said.

Sure, she'd started wearing jeans to this class regularly by now, so her skirts wouldn't be an issue. But the fact that the last time she climbed a tree, she was probably a Little herself, and it had come with a big speech about unladylike conduct and a punishment to match.

"You'd be surprised," Vi said, backing up a step or two before shimmying up the trunk. "First time I climbed a tree was here."

"The last time I climbed one," Libby said, watching her move, "I was maybe five or six."

And she couldn't sit comfortably for the better part of a week afterwards, and never thought she'd hear the end of it from Just and Patience, even at that age. Or that breaking a headstrong girl couldn't be any harder than breaking a headstrong horse, when you got right down to it.

"So I'm a bit rusty. You seemed to manage well enough, anyway, Vi!"

"I've climbed plenty of other things before this," Vi said, blissfully unaware of Libby's narrative and the rage it would have induced as she hooked her knees over a branch and swung down to pass the chocolates to her. "Just not trees."

"Then my point stands," Libby said with a small laugh az she took the candies to add go her basket. "That's still more climbing experience than me."

She considered the tree thoughtfully.

"Maybe you can just give the branches a good shake while you're up there," she suggested. "See what falls out."

"Sounds like a plan," Vi said, swinging back up to do exactly that.

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