"Last time I taught this same workshop, it was mostly a focus on basic survival skills in unforgiving environments," Reno shared, his attitude sobering a little as he drummed his fingers on his desk, once, thoughtfully. "This group works a little differently. An assignment I gave 'em last week to determine their critical thinking skills in a crisis situation turned into an hour long screaming match amongst a pack of kids who couldn't make up their goddamn minds."

Reno had gone home to a lot of rum that night.

"I'm rebuilding my syllabus at this point to include things like 'how the hell to not rip one another's eyeballs out while trying to come to a friggin' consensus,' but I still want to cover stuff like keeping a cool head under stress, and finding resources to live on where there don't seem to be any. This was never intended to be a class on grade-school teamwork skills."