fandomhigh | ACTUAL Ancient Food Crimes; Friday, First Period [07/22].

"Morning, everyone!" said Summer, perhaps a bit too cheerfully, but that was starting to be par for the course for her classes these days, wasn't it? She stood at the front of the classroom with several little disposable cups scattered around in front of mysterious unlabeled pitchers of various different beverages. So already, you knew this was going to be...fun.

"I have very recently fallen into a bit of a wealth of beverages that prove that food crimes are not just a thing of the past: there are many of them alive and well and happening today, even outside my own kitchen. A lot of these come from the synthesis of artificial flavors and chemicals that allow food scientist to do things like make a soda taste like grass or bacon or s'mores. Which begs the question: just because you can, does it mean you should?

"Odd pops, however, are indeed thoroughly modern, but, as we learned last week, ancient people could sometimes do some weird stuff to beverages, too. Granted, their reasons typically had a lot more to do with the fact that easy access to clean and uncontaminated water was a rarity and adding things like vinegar to you drink was a good way to kill off bacteria that would make you sick, where there are arguably absolutely no benefits to consuming a ranch-flavored soda, but I digress.

"I thought, since I have all these modern weird sodas from a mysterious benefactor," who she will happily blame for all of this should anyone complain...and she expected at least someone to complain, "I thought we'd do something a little different today. Blind taste tests, on a variety of different different drinks, and the goal is for you to figure out: Ancient Beverage Crime? Or An Abomination from This Day and Age, Happening Right Under Our Very Noses? And we'll just see where that takes us."

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Anakin came into the classroom after the class was over ~~and no one could yell at him about the sodas~~ with a koala that had been artistically dyed with vegan, animal safe hair dye to look like an extremely rainbow-y version of himself.

"Stark isn't really safe in my house," Anakin admitted. "My daughter got adventurous."

Some of those sodas had been a surprising hit, actually, you might have had some people who would have liked to have shaken your hand, Anakin.

Whether or not you wanted people who genuinely liked those sodas shaking your hand was an other issue, but that was neither here nor there because Summer was sort of hoping that was an entirely different koala with him, but....alas.

"Ohhh, nooo," said Summer, who was not laughing right now, absolutely not, how dare you even suggest....

Okay, no. No, she was definitely laughing.

We'll see how long that lasted though.

"It's a good look!" she added, for good measure.

"I took out the scrunchies," Anakin said, looking deeply annoyed for even knowing what scrunchies were.

"Did you at least take pictures first?" asked Summer, who really felt that was a gross misjudgment on your part if you hadn't, Anakin.

That said, she was absolutely taking pictures of this now. She was sure everyone involved would thank her for it later!

"I teach ethics," Anakin said. "So I made Juliet do it."

Summer snorted at that, blissfully ignorant of her fate whole snapping away on her phone.

"I'm not even going to begin picking part the ethics of that, my dude."

She was going to take a moment, though, to admire the last photo of rainbowed-koala Stark and even turn it toward him so he could see and approve and hopefully not just the to grab and cling to her phone.

Stark was definitely taking the option of anyone but Anakin and clinging to whatever part of Summer he could reach.

"Watch the claws," Anakin warned.

"Hey," Summer, failing to keep her phone out of Stark's reach now and realizing that her phone was, indeed, all but connected to her hand, which was connected to her arm, and therefore her, said, "wait. Hold on. Stark! Don't--!"

It was like you could hear the moment, in her voice, when she realized she'd made a grave mistake and it was much too late, and before she knew it, there had suddenly been...a transfer.

A sneaky, clingy, raindow koala transfer.

"Anakin!" she protested, leaning back as if that would do anything. "I can't take him, take him back!"

Summer, that was only going to make the koala cling harder, and, deep down, you knew that, too.

"Got to go!" Anakin called from the doorway and how had he even gotten over there so fast? "Thank you for your assistance!"

And then he fled like a fleeing thing. Much ethics. Very professional.

"Anakin!" Summer called out again, the shout being slightly muffled by a koala in her face as he tried to find the most comfortable position to gratefully cling to her, but of course it was too late, and she had to make her own adjustments to compensate that she suddenly had a koala in her arms that had not been there but mere seconds ago.

She glared after the specter of Anakin and the doorway for a moment before murmuring, "Doesn't seem like a very Jedi-like thing to do," although she would admit that she still didn't really get Jedi, no matter how hard she tried. She sighed, turning slightly, and now looking at Stark, who just looked back and seemed very contented and please dot be away from Anakin, and now with someone who surely wouldn't do anything nearly as bad as anything Anakin would subject him to! Right?

She made a face.

"God," she admitted, with another sigh and a shake of her head, "you are pretty cute, though...."

Here was to hoping she could figure out what to do about this before Stark decided to turn back...

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