Fandom High School

It had taken Anakin three tries to get through the causeway to get to work today, which, combined with the voicemail message he received from Isabel, was enough to put a worried frown on Anakin's face.

"Since we're right before a holiday," he began, sweeping into class five minutes late, "I don't want to do anything that will overly tax your brains."

Not that he believed they were spending much time talking about Thanksgiving these days.

He gestured to Lex and Toby if they were there to pass out the short story "The Lady or the Tiger."

"Short version of this is that there was a fictional king with his own sense of justice: instead of a court system, he had an arena with two doors. Behind one door was a beautiful woman, handpicked by the king. Behind the other was a tiger. If you chose the tiger, you were eaten and declared guilty. If you chose the lady, you were considered innocent and immediately married to the lady. The king didn't care about your previous marital status or sexual orientation, apparently."

He leaned back against his desk, though the posture of his back showed that he wasn't very comfortable with the idea of relaxing. "One day the king discovered that his daughter had been having an affair with someone far below her station, so the man was arrested and tossed into the arena. Now the princess knew which door had what behind it, and her lover looked up to her for advice. She had two choices: watch her love die, or watch him marry another woman. The story ends with the princess telling him which door to open, but leaves us hanging as to what waited behind it."

Anakin smiled. "Your task today is two-fold. First, pair up with a classmate and decide what the princess did. Then tell me what you would have done in the princess's place."