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Who: Cory Matthews and whomever!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Huntress
When: Backdated to the day of the Shuffle!

[Cory had arrived not long before the Shuffle, and so it's all just clicking in for him as he's beamed onto the Huntress. He thinks he has it figured out.

And so, one might pick up on a family resemblance as he shouts.]

SHAAAWWWWWN!!

Where are ya, buddy? Come one out. You finally did it. Prank of the century. I really thought I was in outer space for a minute. But I got you now!

[He lingers for a moment, looking out one of the windows into space.]

Whatever you did? It's really convincing. I'm impressed! I hope you didn't spend too much money on this...

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Well, Riley. Daughter of mine. What if...

...someone already left the door to this room open!

[HE'S LEARNING]

But that's only one door. There's still a bunch of doors, right?

[That's a horrifying concept. He needs a new defense, a new defense, what...

...Ah, of course.]

You know, in the 1880s, a guy named Frank Stockton wrote a short story about doors. Once I tell it to you, I'm sure that we'll all learn a little something.

Can you teach english if we're not in class? And aren't you supposed to teach history?

[ ARE YOU TRYING TO TEACH HER WHEN SHE'S NOT IN SCHOOL.

THIS IS NOT ALLOWED, DAD. ]

It's historical English, so it counts. Plus, life is a classroom. And even more plus, I say so. And did I mention there's a princess?

[ SHE CAN FIGHT THIS. She can do her own thing. She can be her own person. She can sneakily be the one doing good things without saying a word-- Wait a minute.
]

What's this about a princess?

Edited 2015-06-17 05:17 (UTC)

And there we go. [He claps his hands together confidently.]

So, this story starts out in some very lovely kingdom. The king there, he has a very... unique way of judging people. He puts them in the area, and the guy's got to choose between two doors. One has a lady whom he hand-picked to be a good match for the accused... and the other door has a very hungry tiger. In that way, the person's innocence and guilt is decided entirely by chance.

[He's not even sure where he's going with this lesson

but pretending they're back in the classroom feels comforting.]

...That doesn't make any sense. And sounds very unfair. And like you proved my point and should never leave the room you're in again.

Edited 2015-06-20 05:51 (UTC)

...

...Hey, I didn't get to the princess yet!

[Everyone's a critic.]

--Is the princess going to save him from being eaten?

If I go on, maybe you'll find out.

Okay. Fine. Go on.

[ BUT IT'S NOT BECAUSE SHE CARES OR ANYTHING. ]

Okay. So, the king's daughter, the princess... she started to see a boy without her father's permission. He was from a different class and everything! They don't let that fly in their kingdom.

So, the guy was put up to that same trial. Two doors, two choices. One door had a very hungry tiger, and the other had a woman who was not the princess, whom the guy would have to marry.

[ Is this about her and Lucas??? Is he threatening to feed Lucas to a lion??? No. He can't be. But she doesn't look very comfortable as he goes on. ]

I don't know which one's worse.

[Of course it's not.

...But at the same time, if she happens to come out of this story a bit discouraged from Lucas-related ideas, that may be a very happy coincidence for him!]

You don't, huh? Well I think that our princess had a similar thought in mind.

But you know? She knew which door was which. And when the time came... she passed a message to her lover, telling him which door to pick.

But then they wouldn't be together. That's not a very happy ending.

That depends on how you look at it. If he got to keep on living, even if they couldn't be together, wouldn't that be happy in a way?

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