Just like she asked, several students get up and do what she asked. Surprisingly, the majority of them seem to be second or even third years, none of them look like new students. Not only that, everyone and I mean everyone, was as quiet as the night in the field in the middle of nowhere, as if they were too focused on Taniah speech to even say a word. This also applies to those that got up, they sure were silent while doing so. I think this extremely rare phenomenon might be because of the massive respect they have for the student council. It shows just how important they are in the Academy. Enough of this nonsense, just as said, a few students got up, ten of them to be exact. However, it seems our cute Kiana is a little too focused on Taniah that she didn’t notice her current stance and position. Yep, even though she’s at the back, she still is standing up and without even noticing it, she’s volunteering to participate. Oh boy, a misunderstanding ready to happen, and you know damn well it will happen.
“Go on missy! I know you can do it! I believe in you!”
Who would’ve guessed? Not us, that's for sure. With a quiet and soft tone of voice, a soft woman's voice whispers to Kiana right ear.
Kiana- Eh? Wait, no I don’t want-
And a misunderstanding has occurred. How will Kiana act? How will she get out of here? Or, will she become a new member of the student council!? Found out in the next few very moments!
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“Us girls, we have to support each other! I know you’re nervous but I believe you can do it! Believe in yourself!”
The same woman keeps on motivating Kiana to take action and to make things worse for Kiana, she starts to push her towards the front, as carefully as she can but still with a bit of force behind it. Kiana is confused and does not know how to handle this situation; she does not want to seem rude and at the same time, she does not want to draw attention to her. Without much of a choice it seems, reluctantly she goes to the front, it seems she has accepted her fate, her demise. A few seconds later she’s at the front with the other ten students, they all stand next to each other forming an almost perfect line, a sideways line.
“Good luck!”
Still in complete disbelief of what happened, Kiana nods back at the woman's last encouragement. Although this nod seems a bit out of habit rather than anything else, seriously, she has quite the look on her face. Her golden eyes are wide open filled with shock, her mouth is doing the same but not to the same extreme, this one shows disbelief and the rest of her beautiful pale face shows despair. Silly Kiana, you could’ve said no and this wouldn’t happen! Oh well, you reap what you saw.
Taniah- Let me explain how this will work first. As I said before, I will give out a riddle, your objective is to solve it, however there are several answers for it. What I want to see and understand is your point of view, even if the answer is completely wrong, if you can justify it properly you will pass. In this world there are several different realities, ones that will change from person to person, perspective to perspective and culture to culture. Even with that fact, only one truth can stand at the top, so you better have a good explanation for your truth. To make things easier or harder, depending on your perspective, there will be three of my fellow student council members here with you. They will have tips for the riddle, each one of them will have different tips from one and another. They might be telling the truth or they might be lying. Half of it might be true while the rest is a lie.
“Not everyone in society is here to help you out, but the opposite is also true. Use your own rational thought to reach what you think to be the better conclusion, the better answer for this riddle.”
Taniah- This is the basics for the test, in case you have any doubts, feel free to ask me. You will have 30 minutes to give out an answer or not if you don’t find any. To make this more interactive, the crowd can also participate if they want, they can write their answer in the papers that we gave out earlier. Just be aware that, we will not count said answers, just a way for you to participate if you want. Here we don’t force anyone to do something they are not prepared nor do not want to do. Alright, the riddle is the following then;
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“A noble father filled with riches told his two sons and one daughter that he, unfortunately, will die soon. With this undisputed fact set in stone, he needs to decide which one of them to give his riches to.”
As you can imagine, everyone is paying attention with everything they have to what she’s saying. Some are writing what she’s saying on the sheet they have, while others are patiently waiting for what’s next. Although Kiana was quite confused to what just happened, right now she is paying attention to what Taniah is saying, since she is participating in this, she might as well do her best.
“He said to them: “Go to the market and buy me something that is large enough to fill my bedroom, but small enough to fit in your pocket. From this, I will decide which of you is the wisest and worthiest enough to inherit all of my riches.””
Taniah- Keep in mind that his bedroom is roughly 100 square meters, not small by any means. With this small fact in mind, they all went to the market, and each came back with a different item. One by one they come to the father's bedroom and try to fill the room with the item they bought.
“The eldest one is the first one to try his luck. He took out some pieces of cloth that he bought in the story from his pocket and lays them across the room. It barely covers half of the floor, failing in the process.”
“His daughter comes in second, so that she can show off to her father her intellect. Since he never mentioned that it has to be from a single pocket nor he mentioned their size, from 4 big pockets she takes out some hay, laying all of it in the floor, covering ? of the room with it. It was better than the previous son, however she still failed.”
“For last, the youngest one comes in, showing off to his father what he bought from the store. He wound up getting all the riches and some more. Please tell me, what did the third son show his father? What was the item that gave him everything?”
Taniah- This is the riddle, however since it’s quite long, take these papers, on them there will be the riddle written so that you can use it as a guide.
As she is saying this, two members of the student council give out to the participants said papers. She quiets down for roughly 2 minutes as she gives them an opportunity to properly read the riddle and to even think about it if they are fast enough to read it in that timespan.
“Let the test begin! You have 30 minutes! Time is ticking!”
With her firm tone of voice, she officially begins the test. At that precise moment, some of the students stay in place thinking about the answer, they read and re-read the riddle, ponder the possibilities and so on. Others walk up to the three members of the student council, the ones with the supposed tips. Our cute Kiana, she stays in place as she’s beyond confused about all of this. However, with all of her brain power available, she gathers all of her brain cells into one place so that she can think of the answer. If this was a problem about a battle for example, then she would probably know the answer by now, but since it’s something that has nothing to do with it, it will prove to be a bit harder. Don’t get it wrong, she’s not dumb by any means, but this might be a little too much for her, it seems she’s not used to this type of thinking.
“(Erm, now what? I have no clue what she wants me to say. Something that can fit on my pocket and yet, something that can cover an entire room at the same time…)”
Indeed, the problem seems simple at first but the more you think about it, the more complex it gets. To be honest even I have no clue what the answer might be. How can you fit something in a simple pocket and when you take it out it can also somehow cover a room as big as the one in the riddle?
“(One of his sons, daughter in this case, she used several pockets to basically bring the same item four times. I could use that, but is it even allowed? Wait, what about the skill Pocket Dimension? Argh, the problem ends up being the same, am I allowed to use it? If so, I could easily use this skill to bring something big enough for the room.)”
She’s in a good track, the skill Pocket Dimension as the name suggests, it allows the user to create or use depending on the situation, a simple dimension that he can easily access at will. The problem with this skill, or limitations should be a better way to describe it, is that the size and properties of the dimension itself will vary from user to user. It can have different sizes, maybe gravity does not work in there for example, maybe it’s a cold area or straight up hell itself and so on. In the case of Kiana her skill seems to have a dimension as big as the depth of the ocean, but the normal Pocket Dimension is something akin to the size of a normal chest. Either way, while I was describing how the skill works, Kiana was also thinking about it, wasting 10 whole minutes. She would keep on thinking about it if someone didn’t bring her back to the real world, it seems said person has found an answer.
“(Ah! I got distracted with the Pocket Dimension! Oh no, how much time do I have!?)”
The moment her mind returns to current time, panic quickly fills it up. The first thought that crosses her panicked mind is “What time is it?”, making her look around for a clock, but luckily for her not only the clock is quite visible she also has 20 minutes left.
