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==== An ethical difficulty ==== | ==== An ethical difficulty ==== | ||
A school [[Coach Haggard|PE teacher]] unhappy about the rampant hormones of junior high school kids, and knowing Eric to be a mad scientist, cornered him and badgered him into doing something about the situation. Eric's refusals to do anything being themselves refused, he eventually capitulated and created a "[[Heteronormalizer]]" that would provide blinking lights and the illusion that something was happening. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fragment: Professional Ethics (short story)|Professional Ethics]]'') | A school [[Coach Haggard|PE teacher]] unhappy about the rampant hormones of junior high school kids, and knowing Eric to be a mad scientist, cornered him and badgered him into doing something about the situation. Eric's refusals to do anything being themselves refused, he eventually capitulated and created a "[[Heteronormalizer]]" that would provide blinking lights and the illusion that something was happening. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fragment: Professional Ethics (short story)|Professional Ethics]]'') | ||
==== Watching the sky ==== | |||
At past one in the morning on the night between [[Christmas Eve]] and [[Christmas Day]], a sleeping Eric was woken up by [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny]], who talked him into joining her on the roof. Quickly getting dressed in his day clothes — complete with labcoat and “essential gadgetry” including “both [[robo-spider]]s and the [[stochastic photon homogenizer]]” — he followed her to the said roof, where she explained that she wanted to watch “the flyover”. The Professor slowly realised that she meant “[[Santa Claus#In Kim and Professor Awesome's world|the bringer of presents… the lurker at chimneys… the eater of a billion cookies]]”; Jenny, appearing to treat him as incontrovertibly real, advised Eric not to say the name out loud, though she told him that she had borrowed an “[[Amulet of Unheeding]]” from [[Steven Lucas|Steve]] and [[Thoth (Morning After)|Thoth]] just in case. | |||
Before they could see anything, however, Jenny was hit in the face by a large snowball coming from nowhere in particular, and they were then knocked down by a sudden gust of wind. When they got up again, there were contrails suddenly criss-crossing the sky, as though hundreds of aircrafts — ''or just one, moving extremely fast'' — had passed over the city in the blink of an eye. Melodramatically angry, Jenny started waving a fist in the air and shouting up at the sky: “You just wait! I know [[Jenny Cornelius|who’s]] driving the fat man this year!” — but she got no reply, and Eric calmed her down by calling her attention to the two large, scarlet-wraped presents with their name on them that were suddenly lying on a parapet. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Watch the Skies (short story)|Watch the Skies]]'') | |||
=== Wreaking havoc === | === Wreaking havoc === | ||
