Fandom High School

It was the last class of the term and Fraser was standing up at the front of the classroom, smiling with his hands clasped behind his back.

"Good morning," he greeted with a nod. "Welcome to the last class of the term. I thank you for letting me teach you this semester and I hope you enjoyed the last. For the last activity of the semester, I'd like you all to pick one sense that you could live without and why. Please provide reasons on why you would live without this sense. Think carefully though. Each sense has important uses in the everyday world."

Fraser nodded and stepped back towards the desk. "You have the whole time but you may go when you're done. Thank you again."

Fraser was nowhere to be found when it was time for class. There was no note, no explanation, nothing. The classroom was quiet, empty, as if no one had been there since yesterday. Ordinarily, students might see this as a good thing, getting out of an early morning class.

Considering what was going on outside, staying in the classroom might almost seem like the better option.

The class was meeting in the Danger Shop today because it was extremely hot outside and Fraser thought it better for what he had planned.

( I hear you, I hear you! )

Fraser quite liked having the first class of the day. It meant he got to see the students before anyone else and he got to instill his knowledge before anyone else. He liked knowing that he'd be the first to teach them on Fridays. Today, they were meeting in a regular classroom but that probably wouldn't last.

"Good morning," Fraser said, addressing the class politely. "Welcome to The Five Sense, I'm Constable Benton Fraser. I see some familiar faces and some not so familiar faces but I welcome all of you. If you're here, you'd like to either fine tune or learn how to use each of your five senses. In most of my experience, people tend to rely too heavily on one or two of their senses. They see when they should listen, they touch when they should hear, they smell when they should see. There could be many reasons for that reliance. A past experience might have told them that using one sense is the best way to go, they might not see how using a different sense will help them, and they just might not be able to use a different sense. There are many reasons."

Fraser paused and clasped his hands behind his back. "In this class, we're going to try and break you out of the set molds of wanting to over rely on one sense. You might be a strong smeller but what happens if you touch something instead? Your eyesight might be sharp so that means we'll blindfold you and make you hear. This class is going to be about changing the way you perceive things to both aide and educate you."

At that, Fraser smiled. Even if their senses didn't become stronger, he'd known he at least helped them realize they could. "We're, of course, going to do introductions. I like knowing my students and I think you should know me as well. My name is Benton Fraser, I'm the head of school security and formerly a liaison to the Chicago police department for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. I'm getting married in August and I think my strongest sense is my sense of taste. It's very helpful in tracking criminals."

Fraser was just going to leave that there, let them wonder. "Now, it's your turn. Please tell me your name, a little bit about yourself and what you think your strongest sense is. Sound easy? Good. I'll be choosing two TA's during this exercise so be prepared. All right, let's start."