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Community Center Class: Castletopia: A Castle For You! For You? For You!!! | Monday

Despite this being a construction class, today they were in one of the community center rooms, with tables set up with plenty of graph paper, white boards, and pencils and pens (in all sorts of colours). There was also coffee, tea, and hot chocolate available to drink, should anyone want it, since it was an evening class and people had to come down to the community center for it.

Actually, the hot drinks were going to be a thing all semester because… well. They'd be building. Outside. At night.

Nina herself had an apple cider. Teacher's privilege.

An entire year ago, Nina had been anxiously staring down the barrel of her very first class and, like, now she all but bounced with anticipation. She didn't bounce too much though because she didn't want her crown to bounce right off her head. In her hand she held a wand (though she was going to call it a scepter should anyone comment on it).

She waited patiently until it looked like there wouldn't be anyone showing up and then, with a wave of her wand, shut the door. (You'd have to look super closely at the wand, but she'd added tiny silver lettering in an ancient tongue to be able to manage that feat.)

"Good evening," she said brightly. "Welcome to Castletopia!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm Queen Nina and, like, we know all of you," this was probably true, even if just from squirrels, "and we're so glad you could attend this session!!!!!!!!!!!"

Yes, yes that was the royal 'we'.

"The school board, like, was super unkeen on the idea of a coup d'état to reclaim our castle," Nina informed them all with a heavy sigh that disappeared almost the moment it showed up. "So, upon reflection, as pursuing that would lead to needless bloodshed," would it really?, "we've decided upon a new way to go forward!!!!!!!!!!!! Building our own castle!!!!!!!!!!!!

"And, of course, to build a castle we absolutely must know who will be assisting our royal person with the work!!!!!!!!!!!! Please, introduce yourselves with your proper titles------are you a Baron? An Earl?? A Marquis??? Or perchance are you a merchant???? A peasant????? Royalty from a neighbouring country??????"

What? You'd thought there wouldn't be some level of role-playing in this class? Well that was just a silly thing to expect when castles were involved.

"Once we've been informed as to who everyone is this semester, we'll begin with the very first step of the process of building our new home: designing it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[~~Wait for the~~ OCD is up, up, and away!]

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Liam Kincaid-Price

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This was not nearly as strange as her class from the year before but it was still pretty… something.

Duke was . . . not listening as closely as he could have. He was too busy looking at that wand and crown with amusement.

See, this is why he had to come back from vacation. To he didn't miss Nina's latest absurdity.

Name and title, chop chop! The queen commands you!

"Liam Kincaid-Price," he said, grinning at the sight of Nina with her crown and w- errr, scepter. "And I'm a knight." Since she'd gone and knighted him all of two days ago!

"Do you prefer Sir Liam or Sir Kincaid-Price??????????" Nina inquired, beaming at him.

She did not suggest 'Sir Dad' but, like, only because they were in class and she was teaching and in her own way, Nina was a professional.

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"Name's Duke Crocker," Duke said with a wave. "Which can get a bit confusing since my title is actually Captain. We don't really go in for lordships on the high seas, but on the ocean you don't usually have time to vote on every decision, so we do still have to go in for the occasional rank."

"There are pirate lords," she mused, tapping her cheek with her scepter thoughtfully. "I think that would satisfy both parts of this class, don't you, Captain Crocker??????????"

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"I am Enola Holmes," she said with a small curtsy. There wasn't much that she mastered at Miss Harrison's finishing school but Enola could manage that much. "And I have no title, unless I can claim the simple classification of being a Lady."

"You may most certainly become Lady Enola, should you wish," Queen Nina said, smiling. "But, as we are certainly not sticking just to the facts here, is there perhaps a more exalted title you would be interested in trying out???????"

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"M'Wayne," Wayne offered, once he was over how super soft Nina had to go and frame all of this, but he couldn't exactly say he was surprised.

"Just Wayne."

A peasant if there ever was one.

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"Mr. Wayne??????????" she tried hopefully. "Sir Wayne??????????"

Look, she was grateful he was here but, like, really....... where was his sense of joy?

"Sabine," Sabine said. "I'm definitely a knight."

They had all the fun.

She beamed.

"Do you want to be a deposed princess masquerading as a knight???????"

It... it really mattered not at all for the class. Nina just wanted someone to be a deposed member of royalty.

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"So, like, the term 'castle' can mean a lot of different things," Queen Nina said meditatively once everyone had introduced themselves. "It gets confused with palace a lot," and she was also super inclined to mix it up deliberately, as it suited her mood too, "but the basic meaning the word castle is 'fortified place'!!!!!!!!!!!! Palaces are not fortified, though the people who live in them are usually the same—lords and nobles of some stripe, the grandeur of the castle generally being an indication of how important the castle is to the governing infrastructure of the surrounding locales!!!!!!!!!!

"Typically, a castle has thick walls, battlements, towers, and, in many cases, a moat………. but that last one is out as, like, that's just not on for here, so we'll have to leave that one out!!!!!!!!!!!! Which is, like, deeply tragic but we don't want to risk any accidents on those weird weekends where none of us are ourselves or in our right minds!!!!!!!!!!!!"

So she was just declaring that off the table now. Sadly. She'd have loved a moat.

"What all do you want in this castle??????????" she asked instead of dwelling upon the lack of a moat. "If there's not at least one tower and a throne room, your queen will riot and add them in anyway!!!!!!!!!!

"You," she said, pointing her wand at someone. "What do you think this castle should have???????????"

"Couple questions," Duke said. "Where is this castle going to be? We gotta make it suit its surroundings, right? And, uh. What's it going to be for, other than a jewel in our highness's crown?"

Nina grimaced just a little.

"The school board ~~the admins~~ have yet to confirm the final location of our new domicile," she sighed dramatically. "We are hoping to have this information by next week so that we can make adjustments to our design as you're correct, good captain, that a good castle works with what is around it!!!!!!!!!!"

A beat.

"And it's going to be for whatever we wish it to be," she said, rather more brightly. "However, other than a place to offer some peace from the dorms, we are hoping that it will be of great interest on alternate weekends, where there are children about or no one is in their right mind........."

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