fandomhigh | Stealth and Deception, Workshop #3, Wednesday Morning at Cafe Fina

The students, upon arriving at Cafe Fina, were given a nice breakfast of croissants, pastries, and muffins; then ushered off down a series of twisting corridors, down a series of stairs where a number of symbols had been neatly and cleverly covered up, and then finally pushed into what appeared to be a large dojo.

Alfred was standing there, waiting.

"Good morning, class. Today we're going to discard theory for something a little more practically fun."

He grinned. "Today I will teach you how to move stealthily and, most importantly, silently.

Alfred stepped to the side and let the class get a better view of the floor behind him. The space had been seperated into a number of square sections, all of which had been given different floor coverings. Sticks, dry leaves, hard metal, shag rug, and, in one case, a very tastful hardwood design.

"Some teachers might try to break you in by showing you on something that naturally does not make much noise. Say, the reagular floor of this dojo. However, I'm of the opinion that all the training I give you will be completely pointless if I don't show you how to use it in a real life situation. I might as well be teaching you knitting at that point. Now, class, if you'll please follow me and keep on the dojo floor."

Alfred walked over to the first prepared square (hard wood) and stepped out onto it, still in his dress shoes. There was no audible sound at all. Alfred continued to lecture as he walked around the various surfaces in otherwise complete silence, explaining the proper way to move, where to place your weight, that your footfalls should always be toe first, instead of heel first.

As he stepped off the last panel (dry twigs) he picked up a cup of tea from a nearby panel and sipped at it. "If there are no questions," he said. "Feel free to practice this all on any of the test squares I have set up. If you need help, talk to me or someone who appears to be doing well, as I'm quite sure that some of you already have this skill." He nodded to Setsuna, Briar, and Walter.

_{[[Wait for the OCD. Have fun kids! Yes, you are now technically in the butler-cave, but there is absolutely nothing there that could connect it with Batman. Alfred made quite sure of that.]]}

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Walter was feeling anything but chatty. It might have helped if Alfred were teaching something he didn't already know, but instead he stood and watched silently, standing in the middle of the group and neither moving toward or away from Nadia.

Pippi just happened to be standing next to Walter.

Funny how that just seemed to happen.

Walter glanced down at Pippi and nodded, but otherwise appeared ready to give Alfred his undivided attention. Unless said attention was ever noted to be wandering to another student. Which it wasn't. Because this is Stealth and Deception.

Nadia glanced at him once, but otherwise proceeded to ignore him.

It's entirely possible, that if she were anywhere near a certain retired pickpocket at any time during the lecture or class, that a certain necklace might be found on her person later.

If the opportunity arose.

There may, in fact, have been an opportunity for the retired pickpocket to slip something into the pocket of the trained spy. And once she found it, it's entirely possible that she gave him a deeply confused look before slipping it back into her pocket.

And if the recipient's fallback response to that look were to not change expression at all, that probably wouldn't be a surprise given the setting.

Which may or may not have earned him exactly the same blank expression right back at him. She had no idea how she was supposed to react to that.

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