Witching 3

[atent_dead]

[Action: 1446 Mitchell]

[Any of the resident children will find Granny in the kitchen in the morning. Speaking to their drone daddy in no uncertain terms.]

Porridge is what I made. Ye can eat it or not, yer decision. Didn't make it fer you.

[Action: Mayfield Elementary]

[Granny glances down at the lesson plan someone handed her on her way in. And promptly tosses it in the rubbish bin]

Well we won't be talking about that. Apparently I'm expected to teach you lot, so we might as well learn something of use. Like what reality ought to look like.

[Action: Park]

[When class lets out, Granny can be found in the park cataloguing everything for future class purposes.]

Comments

[Action: Elementary School]

[waiting4prince.livejournal.com]

[Sue raises her hand.]

Excuse me, ma'am... what do you mean by 'what reality ought to look like'?

Re: [Action: Elementary School]

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

Well it ain't like this town. Seems more useful to teach you lot to spot all the shenanigans than...

[Picks up the lesson plan]

Spotting commune-ists.

[waiting4prince.livejournal.com]

..."shenanigans"?

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

All the business in this town that ain't right and proper. Whole town's too tidy.

[waiting4prince.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be more useful to see what really is here instead of what should be?

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

Exactly. What's really going on rather than what the town wants you seeing. All that tidiness is hiding plenty.

[waiting4prince.livejournal.com]

[Alright, now that that's been cleared up, Sue's excited to learn!]

So how do you do it? See through the shenanigans, I mean.

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

You start by asking questions. Like whether things should be so alike.

[waiting4prince.livejournal.com]

Okay... so you question what you see in front of you.

Then what?

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

THat's when you start looking closer, make sure it's not just the surface distractin' you.

[waiting4prince.livejournal.com]

Like trying to find something that sticks out from everything?

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Nothing is ever that tidy unless it's hiding something.

[waiting4prince.livejournal.com]

So if it is hiding something, you need to find exactly what that something is, right? And then figure out what to do with it?

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

Not bad, yer catchin' on here.

[waiting4prince.livejournal.com]

It's probably a lot easier to say then do though. Do you have anything we could use to practice it? So we can have some experience for when we really need it?

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

The park is a good place to start from. Not much to learn just sittin' in here.

park

[uranophobe.livejournal.com]

[YEAH JUST WALKING THROUGH THE PARK it's what people do here. hay fellow old person haaaaay.]

What are you doing?

Re: park

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

Figurin' out everything that ain't right here.

[uranophobe.livejournal.com]

You must be quite busy, then. Wouldn't it be easier to make a list of everything that is right here?

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

That ain't going to get the children anywhere.

[uranophobe.livejournal.com]

The children? You're a teacher, then. And what, exactly, do you plan on teaching them?

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

Not the nonsense the town assigned. They need to learn about seeing through that.

[uranophobe.livejournal.com]

Anyone who can't see through the smoke and mirrors of this place on their own doesn't deserve consideration. [He has a low respect for students; after all, he was once a college professor.]

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

No fixing foolish, but some of 'em might just be ignorant.

[park]

[plantenough.livejournal.com]

[She's always chillin' in the park, and now she's watching Granny with curiosity.]

You missed a leaf.

Re: [park]

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

Got that the leaves all match up.

Re: [park]

[plantenough.livejournal.com]

Until they all change colors, of course.

Re: [park]

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

To exactly the same shade of red, orange or yellow, right?

Re: [park]

[plantenough.livejournal.com]

Only if you don't look close enough. Why all the note-taking, anyway?

Re: [park]

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

For teaching the children to look close enough.

Re: [park]

[plantenough.livejournal.com]

A very good lesson to teach, indeed. I know of many adults who could use such tutoring.

Re: [park]

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

Better lesson than the nonsense the town expects me to teach 'em.

/late action for elementary school~!

[withavividheart.livejournal.com]

What reality ought to look like? I don't really know much about the 1950s or America... is this wrong, do you mean?

Re: /late action for elementary school~!

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

Reality ain't ever so tidy with every blade of grass the same height.

[withavividheart.livejournal.com]

You've got a point there... The people who run Mayfield really do pay attention to detail...

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

And they still can't get it right.

[withavividheart.livejournal.com]

From what I understand, it sounds like the people in power here are pretty disorganized, though. At least enough that they don't get along all of the time.

[atent-dead.livejournal.com]

They squabble?