>"I'm gonna have to give you a swirly if you keep up that kinda crazy talk, Romana."
>Warm smile, pat on the back.
>Finish getting ready for class.
>Romana involuntarily shudders (more than usual, anyway).
>You finish getting ready for class before filing out with the others to the gymnasium.
>You line up with the rest of your class and-
>"ALRIGHT MAGGOTS LISTEN UP! TODAY WE WILL BE PARTAKING IN THAT DEADLIEST OF ALL SPORTS, THAT MOST BLOODTHIRSTY OF ALL CONTESTS..."
>The PE teacher tosses a ball at you, and as the red sphere hurtles towards your chest you're pretty sure you hear a sonic boom.
>"...DOOOOOOOOOODGEBAAAAAAAAALL! TEAM UP, MAGGOTS!"
> Do some mind readin' while we get ready.
>Respect peoples' mental privacy. =[
>Keep an eye out for anyone acting strange enough to warrant mind-reading. With all of Paprika's animal-people lurking around, it wouldn't be too surprising if our gym partner was a monkey.
>No-one
seems all that suspicious. There's a couple of guys who look like monkey-people, but on closer inspection that's just the jocks. And you'd probably end up dumber if you tried to read them.
> Or a snake. Or an ocelot.
> Mentally go off on a tangent about a snake that was water-elemental or metal-elemental.
> The snake was obviously located on an imaginary point on a binary phase diagram that marked the temperature at which the second of two phases, the first of which had already solidified, started to solidify as well.
>I need scissors! 61!
