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Wilderness Survival Redux - Week 5 | Thursday Morning, A Clearing in the Woods

Callisto looked distracted as she addressed the class. "Clothes and shoes. And we're doing today's class in the water, so if you want to wear your clothes the entire class, be my guest."

Once she'd collected clothing from those willing to give it up, she gestured to a set of spears and hand woven nets. "Last week we looked at hunting land animals, this week is fish, so take either a net or a spear, then follow me."

Callisto led the class though the preserve down to the beach, then into the water. Where she proceeded to give a lecture on basic fishing techniques.

"Now spend the rest of the class trying out spear, net and bare hand techniques, but those of you with spears, please be careful of your fellow students, as we don't want to have any accidents that might attract sharks."

"Anything you catch, you're expected to clean and cook yourself."

[ooc: OCD threads ~~coming~~ up like an upping thing that ups (not dirty)]
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"You ask it how it's doing before you eat it?" Peter said, not quite losing his balance and falling into the water while trying to duck Anders' splash.

"Yes." Anders snickered, flailed speculatively at what he thought might be a fish but turned out to be his own knee, and did fall over, thereby effectively scaring off any fish, however theoretical, that might be in the vicinity. "If they answer me, I go out for burgers."

"What if the burgers answer you too?" Peter asked, laughing at Anders' antics. "Shall you eat salad and greens?"

Anders sputtered as he got back to his feet, a maneuver that wasn't helped very much by a bit of tide pull that he happened to get caught in at the time. "Maybe. Have you heard the screams of the vegetables?" he asked, deadpan.

"Of course," Peter replied. "Especially celery."

"The celery's the worst." Anders nodded sagely ~~no pun intended~~. "I have to wear earplugs when I eat. It's awful."

"Exactly. Sometimes it's easier just to stick with potatoes. They're rather stolid," Peter said, chuckling.

"They go well with fish, too. Or pretty well by themselves, since the fish thing seems to not be happening." Anders ran one wet hand through his hair (which was also wet, so it didn't make much difference save to mess it up more) and eyed the surface of the water. "Maybe the laughing scares them away?"

"I've heard noise tends to do that," Peter replied. "And we could roast plain potatoes, sprinkle them with salt and not even miss the fish. Which, as you say, is good, as I don't see any either."

"So far I've gotten a shoe and some seaweed, but nothing with scales," Anders said resignedly. "And now a roasted potato is sounding really good."

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