After he'd gotten his young charge sorted out, he returned to the classroom which was in even worse disarray than it had been when he'd left. The children who had been given an unscheduled session of unstructured play time by his assistant added to that mess. The urine appeared to have been cleaned up as the main puddle that the child had left was gone, but he could still smell it from where his student had tracked it on her way over to him in order to alert him to the issue.

Suppressing his displeasure over the fact that his assistant had allowed the children to play in such unsanitary conditions, he decided to clean up the parts of the mess that his assistant who was reading a story book about a "Stinky Cheese Man" to several students had neglected to deal with. Gathering cleaning supplies from a locked cabinet next to the small sink that had been installed in the room, including something that had apparently been formulated for removing urine, he set about to finding the extent of the mess.

Less than ten minutes later, he was in the principal's office being informed that the Emergency Biohazard Decontamination Sprinklers had not been installed for the purpose for which he'd used them.

An hour following the misunderstanding and the ensuing lecture on the proper cleaning procedure for such situations, the school day had finally ended, all of the children who'd regarded the incident as an adventure had been shipped off to their respective homes, and his assistant Paul had mysteriously vanished leaving him with the chaotic mess that had been a classroom at one point. Toys, papers, picture books, and datapads which reeked of the cleaning agent which had dried on them were strewn across every available surface, including the floor, and there was paint everywhere in bright colors and murky mixtures. This would take hours to clean, and he had no clue as to where he should start.

Such things never happened on Vulcan.

She came in while he was picking up a pile of wooden blocks which were a sort of traditional Earth toy and putting them back in their box.

"Paul ditched you then?" She said. "He did that to the last teacher. If he wasn't the principal's brother, he'd have been fired."

He raised an eyebrow as She walked over to the sink and picked up a sponge.

"I figured I may as well help you since I don't really have anything else to do at the moment." She said as she went over to one of the walls and started scrubbing off a blue hand-print.

"Thank You." he said as he placed the box of blocks back where it belonged.

"You're welcome." She replied.

With Her assistance, the room was cleaned far more quickly than it would have been had he been left to deal with it on his own. After the room was clean, they went to the teacher's lounge for tea and coffee while She graded her students' work. During the conversation they had, he learned that She was studying the most common dialect of the main Vulcan language and he offered to help her with her pronunciation. She was grateful.

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