"He made it seem so. I mean, waking up before dawn means that she can see the beauty of the sunrise!"
'But I don't want to see the sunrise!' thought Nabiki with a whimper.
"And then they get to take a nice run up mountains, over rocks and make their own trails! They even get to wade through some cool brooks and streams."
'Two miles of mud, bugs and sore feet?'
"Then comes a nice communal meals of ready made, nutritionally balanced foods..."
'Institutional slop.'
"They have a day ready for her with plenty of intense eduactional lessons combined with a strict execise regimen to make her nice and healthy."
'Torture sessions...'
"And they give plenty of assignments to help each of the students occupied for a lot of time."
'Busy work?'
"It sounds rather nice..," commented Hotaru.
"From what Mr. Saneda tells me, it is," Kasumi told her, "They even try to have their instructors give each of their students very personal attention. They are mostly retired military officers and such, you know. They are even some former American Marines on staff."
'Drill sergeants?' ran through Nabiki's head.
"They even give the students haircuts and nice uniforms when they get there."
One of the middle Tendo daughter's hands reached up and felt the locks that she had spent so much time caring for, as she imagined them falling to the floor in clumps as they were shaved off.
"But what if someone does something bad anyway?" asked Hotaru.
"Mister Saneda said that they have ways of making sure they don't. But if they do manage it, he said that those students start off with things like having having to cleaning the latrines, to a special program intensive program that has the teachers watching them from waking up to going to sleep."
"That's tough..."
"He said that it would be... Now, let me see... Where did I put Nabiki's medical papers..."
"I'll help you look!"
"Thank you."
"No problem."
Slumping against the wall as they left, Nabiki thought about this place that her family was planning on sending her. They were going to send her somewhere that the most exiting thing to do would be to run some insane obstacle course. She exercised her brain, not her muscles and wasn't one to run around the ward all day. That was for others, like Akane, and she was not a morning person.
There was no other choice. She just had to find some way of getting out of this mess. In no way was she at all ready to be sent off to some glorified boot camp. She'd just figure out some angle and not only keep herself from getting shipped off, but to regain the comfortable position that she'd had before all this mess.
As far as she was concerned, there was no way that she could fail.
Thus perked up, she went and started to look for some way of accomplishing her goal, while:
(Posted Wed, 21 May 2003 04:17)
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