Thanksgiving in more ways then one

[det_aiden_burn]

Who: Lady Heather, Open

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[lady_h_csi]

"It's just bones." Heather answered. "When you said biology I thought it might be something interesting... like sex."

[det_aiden_burn]

"Well, forgive me for thinking its fascinating that you can dig up a skeleton that's been dead a couple hundred years and be able to tell their sex,..." Aiden snatches down one of the diagrams and starts to hastily roll it back up, "age, ethnicity, nutritional deficiencies,"....she shoves it into her briefcase and starts to do the same to the other one. obviously her feelings have been hurt. "if they gave birth, injuries, surgeries, diseases, environmental conditions, where they came from, what their life and death were like," She forgets herself, her accent getting heavier without even noticing it

[lady_h_csi]

"No... wait!" Heather says, realising her mistake. "You... you can really tell all those things from a skeleton?"

[det_aiden_burn]

Aiden pauses, her one leg stuck out, opposite hand resting defiantly on her hip. She tuns her head around then brings the rest of her body to follow.

"Well, I can." She says defiantly. "And I wasn't born knowing it I'll tell you that."

[lady_h_csi]

"But.... they never told us that at school..... we had to learn which bone was which but they never made it interesting..... that's why I find bones boring....." Heather said, unwittingly finding herself starting to fall in line.

[det_aiden_burn]

"Bad teachers make interesting things boring and good ones make boring things interesting. Science, all science, stems from curiosity." Aiden let her demeanor soften and came closer to Heather by a few steps.

"What if your neighbor called the cops and said you were burying a body in the back yard? They could dig up bones and you could swear up and down that they're the bones of your late dog Fifi, but someone has to be able to prove or disprove that theory. DNA is all the rage now but it's not always there."

"Hell," she scoffed, "I'm thankful if a grave turns up and entire body."

[lady_h_csi]

"You're not a real teacher... are you?" Heather asked.

[det_aiden_burn]

"Think of me as a cheap substitute." Aiden quipped in response. "So long as you pass the homeschooling tests you graduate just like any other high schooler."