Art of Adaptation [Monday, Period Six]
Everyone got word that they were meeting inside today where it was cooler. There was no Bond in sight, but his intrepid TAs were on hand to cover for him while he was being a spy attending to important business. Rose and Kyle didn't actually know where Bond was though. Chances were he'd fallen down a hole and couldn't get out.
"Mr. Bond couldn't make it," Kyle said once it was time to start. "The syllabus says we're supposed to cover Blending In versus Standing Out." How convenient that one TA was good at blending in while the other was better at standing out. "When you're trying to adapt your surroundings, for a lot of people it's natural to want to blend in so you don't get noticed. If you lay low, you can do what you need to do without anyone even knowing you're there or that you're doing anything you're not supposed to."
Rose smirked a little at Kyle as he finished. "Or sometimes it's good to make people look at you. Especially if you're not too good at the whole sneaking around thing. But if they look at you and then just dismiss you cause you're obviously too young to be a threat or too pretty or whatever, well, then you're free to go off and do what you need to without worrying about getting caught sneaking." Or you have a friend use compulsion and then you can go about without worrying anyway. "I'm just saying. If they're staring at your tits, they probably don't think you're capable of actually doing anything important. And then you have 'em where you want 'em."
"So let's turn it over to the class. When do you think it's a good time to blend in? Or a good time to stand out?"
"Mr. Bond couldn't make it," Kyle said once it was time to start. "The syllabus says we're supposed to cover Blending In versus Standing Out." How convenient that one TA was good at blending in while the other was better at standing out. "When you're trying to adapt your surroundings, for a lot of people it's natural to want to blend in so you don't get noticed. If you lay low, you can do what you need to do without anyone even knowing you're there or that you're doing anything you're not supposed to."
Rose smirked a little at Kyle as he finished. "Or sometimes it's good to make people look at you. Especially if you're not too good at the whole sneaking around thing. But if they look at you and then just dismiss you cause you're obviously too young to be a threat or too pretty or whatever, well, then you're free to go off and do what you need to without worrying about getting caught sneaking." Or you have a friend use compulsion and then you can go about without worrying anyway. "I'm just saying. If they're staring at your tits, they probably don't think you're capable of actually doing anything important. And then you have 'em where you want 'em."
"So let's turn it over to the class. When do you think it's a good time to blend in? Or a good time to stand out?"