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STAFF claire LYNCH

hae-joo YOON

samalya THENUWARA

eman ELSHEIKH

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MAY 2016 CONTENTS 3

4 EVERY ROMANCE EVER WRITTEN

6 FASHION PROFILE: JANAYA BUNS’18

7 OPINION: (NON)AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

8 RESTAURANT REVIEW: CACTUS

9 CHANGE$ TO YOUR CHANGE

12 HUMAN INTEREST: BRANDON HU’18

16 CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE: ALIEN VISITOR

14 RECIPES: AROUND THE WORLD IN 3 BITES

age to ask her out. And now he forever missed his chance since the childhood friend always loses. Poor guy.

Ciara (Age 17)- In love with Joziah. A rich girl who flirts with him way too much and has a following of boys, but ap-parently none of them are good enough for her. Just a character to get that love triangle going. Hates Korin and tries to ruin her social life. You get the gist.

Maddie (Age 16)- Korin’s nice new friend in school. Helps Korin adjust to life at the dorm setting private school and fight of Ciara. Basically does nothing else and is about as interesting as a doormat.

HUMOR

Korin (Age 16)- A courageous, headstrong girl with a strong sense of right and wrong. Has never ‘fit in with society’ or whatever. Apparently different from other girls or something.

Joziah (Age 17)- A mysterious, black haired and sarcastic boy with captivating eyes. Due to his dark and sad past that he needs to maintain his myste-rious aura, he denies his true feelings and remains closed up. Can anyone work their way into his innermost feelings?

Landon (Age 16)- An intelli-gent and awkward young man. Korin’s rich childhood friend who has had a crush on her for the past 10 years, although ob-viously he never had the cour-

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The cast of absolutely unique and original characters:

Cameron (17)- Joziah’s jock friend who’s also rather point-less but hey, Joziah needs one friend at least. Maybe he’ll find romance with Maddie.

Setting: An elaborate and im-mense castle-like private school in the countryside of someplace in England that is filled with the offspring of the wealthy (save our protagonist, of course). It’s a boarding school so that eliminates parental supervision which is good for fostering ro-mances (the teachers supervise but honestly they are busy with other things...lol).

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EVERY RomanceEVER WRITTENTotally not satire.

Headmaster: We are very fortunate to have such a talented young lady like you in school! Korin: Thank you, but the pleasure is mine.Headmaster: I’ll show you around the school now, come.They walk down the long hallway and down the grand staircase that’s just casually...there. Downstairs are a series of lounges with libraries where the students can spend their evenings doing homework or socializing.Headmaster: Here you can spend your downtime studying or relaxing. The cafe is located in the hallway over there and it’s open 24/7 Because you main characters need somewhere to have a date in the middle of the night.Korin: Of course. Thank you so much.Her eyes land on a figure in the room who is sitting in an armchair and reading a newspaper while eating buttered toast. His feet are on the coffee table in front of him. Gasp, could he possibly be the male lead???Headmaster: Noticing the aforementioned figure Joziah! Get your feet off the table! Joziah: Raising his head over the newspaper Yes ma’am! He gets up and walks over to the awkwardly standing Korin. New student?Korin:......YesJoziah: While smirking like a true male lead Good luck surviving here. No offense ma’am.Headmaster: You would do your mother shame, she loved this school!Joziah’s eyes cloud over and he frowns. Joziah:...Well, I’m not herI honestly have no idea why they always go for the

bad boys but okay...the childhood friend seems so much less of a hassle.

Some Romantic Moment a month or so later after the dude asks girl to some danceKorin: Blushing profusely while wearing a minidress thing her friend gave her Oh no, I look awful, he will probably laugh at me. Has perfectly styled hair and a nicely fitting dress on...but okay.

She walks down another long carpeted hallway to descend down the stairs where Joziah waited, dashing (like a prince!) in a formal suit and his customary smirk (note to self: Main characters smirk often)Joziah: Insert awed and surprised voice after he notices her Wow….You look great! Korin: Red faced, stuttering...like she totally wasn’t expecting that because the main character must be humble and unaware of her charms T-thank you.Scene concludes with both of them heading off to the dance whilst looking extremely awkward. The girl does anyway because she’s unused to dances and all that.

JOZIAH AND KORIN’S FIRST ENCOUNTER...

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Prologue: On a fateful sunny day, a glimpse of calm and peace before the storm, Korin meets her fated One. A humorous, mysterious, and handsome young man with them good looks (otherwise, you know, it wouldn’t sell in case it was made into a movie). Will the fated have a happy ending? Or will both of their secrets tear them apart?!

FASHION PROFILEJANAYA BUNS’18

BY HAE-JOO YOON

DESIGN BY SAMALYA THENUWARA

Above: “I felt drawn to the spring

like colors, I don’t really have bright and calming pastel colors like this in my closet so I thought

I’d go for something new.”

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Above: “I didn’t actually pick

this dress out, my mom did, and I honestly wasn’t a big fan of it until I tried it on and well, fell in

love with it.”

Left: “This one is a combo of a skirt

and shirt that I got from Aeropostale, I combined the

two since I felt they really bal-anced each other out and gave a spunky happy kind of feel

that still let off a sense of getting down to

business.”

Above: “This dress was originally go-

ing to be in case I needed to go to a funeral, ahem, but I had man-

aged to talk my mom into letting me wear it to school. I love the whole loose yet formal feel of the dress with the dark navy blue dotted with small white polka dots allowing for the

dress to be worn at more for-mal outings or a day at

school.”

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OPINION

MAY 2016 OPINION 7

(NON)AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONAs sophomore year draws

to a close, one thing that I’ve started to think about more seriously is college. It seems crazy to me that in just two years I’ll be practically done with high school and on my way to college. One thing that many of my peers won’t have to think about, but that I’ve recently been putting a lot of thought into, is how affirmative action will affect my admission into college. The more I think about it, the more I dislike it.

Statistically speaking, affirmative action as a whole hasn’t really made that much of a difference since the end of the civil rights era. According

to the Pew Research center, in 2012, Hispanic students made up only 19% of those in college, and black students made up 14%. I really don’t see much of a benefit, and I think it’s actually been doing more harm than good. If we think of affirmative action as a sort of way to right the wrongs done to people of color by the systemic racism in the country, that’s great. But in doing so, affirmative action has actually caused a lot of social problems. You don’t have to look too far to find someone who feels that affirmative action is unfair to white people. Whether or not that’s true, the fact that many white people feel that is concerning. As affirmative action is working to reverse the issues that people of color have faced, it’s creating a whole new set of issues, only contributing to present ones.

I get that at one point affirmative action was really needed, as institutions had clear racial biases. I’d like to believe that, as a country, we’ve come past that. As evidenced by the stagnation of admission rates of people of color in the past couple of years, the problem of getting students of color into higher education lies elsewhere. Not to mention that affirmative action totally ignores the problems that lie under the surface of this issue. Really, what is letting a few more black and hispanic students into elite universities going to do to the disparate rate of poverty and unemployment present in communities of color?

Personally speaking as a female and a person of color, I don’t want either of those factors to affect whether or not I get into the college I want to get into. I’m sorry, but lowering the bar so that I can step over it is really not helpful. Are you saying that

my abilities alone wouldn’t have gotten me into this college? That’s totally demeaning. Oh, I can’t get into a college because,, obviously, I’m a woman and not white, so that means I need help. Thanks, college. I were to get accepted into my dream college (Harvard, by the way), I get the feeling that I’d never be able to shake off the idea that my admission was a result of my race and gender, not my merit. I want to think that I’d be good enough to get into Harvard on my own, not because they needed X number of black females entering the freshman class.

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DESIGN AND PHOTO BY SAMALYA THENUWARA

Why I think race-based affirmative action in college admissions hurts me more than it helps.

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Entering the downtown loca-tion of Cactus I was hit with

strong smells of delicious Mexican food and alcohol. I got so hun-gry when I smelled all the chick-en, cilantro and tomatoes. Once I stepped in the crowded restaurant I was offered the choice of indoor or outdoor seating, and I chose to sit on the patio outside. I sat down with my group of friends and be-gan to look at the menu which had a huge amount of options that all looked amazing.

Right when we got seated we were given salsa and chips, which were really good. The salsa wasn’t spicy but it was seasoned really well and the chips were served warm. They weren’t too salty but were really thin and crisp and they paired well with the salsa. We continued to look through the menu. I ordered the dish called chicken rice, which is chicken with cheese sauce over spanish rice served with tortillas. Although many of the options contain meat, there are vegetar-ian options. My sister got a veg-gie quesadilla, and her boyfriend got cheese enchiladas. They both smelled amazing and looked like something you would see on The

Food Network. As we waited patiently for the

food we were surprised when a man holding a liquor bottle came up and started talking to the cus-tomers. An employee eventually had to come and tell him to leave, and it was pretty scary. But when you’re downtown at seven o’clock on a Saturday night sometimes these kinds of things happen.

Then our food came, and I fell in love. The chicken rice was amazing. I had a similar dish at the Mexican restaurant Casa Azul, which is one of my favorite Mexican spots, but the food from Cactus was better. The chicken was really what set it apart. It was super tender, and fla-vored amazingly. The service was really good, and everyone was very friendly.

I would definitely recommend Cactus if you’re in the mood for some awesome Mexican food, and I’ll definitely go back soon. Before this I had always avoided going to Cactus because I thought it couldn’t live up to the expectations I had from my other favorite Mexican places. But it did and it surpassed my expectations.

MEXICAN NOT MEXICAN’T

CACTUSmexican grill and cantina

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BY CLAIRE LYNCH

Chicken Rice

Chicken Chimichanga

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Senor Burro Burrito

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OVERVIEW

Compiled by Claire Lynch

Location: 245 S Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA 52240

Price: Many items under $10 bigger items ranging from $10- $20

Rating:

Service: Food took around 15-20 minutes after ordering

Fun fact: Cactus has a second restaurant called Cactus 2

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BY EMAN ELSHEIKH

10 NEWS FEATURE MAY 2016

Andrew Jackson’s days of dominating the $20 dollar

bill are numbered. By 2030, after over 100 years of being the sole face of the $20 bill, Harriet Tubman will be replacing him on the face and sending him to the back. Originally, people had a problem with Andrew Jackson being on the $20 dollar bill. For one thing, he had a distrust of paper money, and he also passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 which led to the infamous and tragic Trail of Tears. Many did not want someone with that kind of a history on the front of the 2nd most used denomination. But who would replace him?

The campaign Women on 20s has been trying to get women on national currency for quite a while, and this was the perfect opportunity for the change. After allowing supporters to vote between fifteen women replacements for Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, Harriet Tubman won by about 7,000 votes. This was a slim victory considering that over 350,000 people voted in the final round. They presented their petition to the Treasury Department, and it was accepted. It is estimated that by 2030, Harriet Tubman faced $20 bills will be in circulation.

This announcement has been met with overwhelming support, with many stating how long overdue this change is. “I think it’s really great...it’s finally time that we got a woman on paper money, and money that’s used in circulation a lot,” said Maggie Terry ‘17. One reason people seem to be in favor of this change is the fact that they feel it better reflects

the changes that have happened in our country since the time of the founding fathers. “I think it was necessary there was a change...having Harriet Tubman...shows that we have, as a country, we have changed and we have different views now,” said Raneem Hamad ‘17. Social studies teacher Brady Shutt has a similar feeling

towards the change. “It’s exciting. I think it’s important and it’s a better ref lec t ion o f . . . t h e realit ies. . .of our history.”

M a n y feel that having such a strong figure on something so commonly used will elicit meaningful conversation and lead to progress for underrepresented groups. “Connecting...Harriet Tubman and color and race and all that in America’s history to something that we deal with on a daily basis...is a really powerful message,”

said Tyler Carlson ‘18. The campaign, understandably, has been met with some criticism from both sides of the political spectrum. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called the change a move for

“pure political correctness.” The other main criticism this has

been faced with doesn’t concern who will grace the front of the bill, but instead who will be on the back of it. Some feel that it takes away from the symbolism and the power of this change if Harriet

Tubman will have to share the bill with Andrew Jackson instead of replacing him completely. “[Andrew Jackson] was...a big symbol of...racism against Native Americans.” said Danetta Dobre ‘17. “Why would

you put a racist person on the same bill as somebody who fought against racism?” Still, others feel that keeping

A n d r e w Jackson on the back isn’t a huge problem. “You have to compromise...some people want it, some people don’t so I feel at the same time the fact that she’s still

on the front is still a big change,” said Hamad. Some even go as far as to say that there are possible benefits to letting Jackson stay. “I can understand, though, in some ways the value of having him on there as well,” said Shutt. “I hope that that maybe forces us to have uncomfortable conversations.”

T h i s c h a n g e has the p ote nt i a l to greatly a f f e c t w o m e n and people of color. Now people who were previously underrepresented will have someone to look at and look up to in a way that hasn’t been available to them before. “If you don’t see someone who looks like

Maggie Terry ’17

Danetta Dobre ’17

Meldia Sharpe’17

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I don't think this is a huge step for women...The fight

does not end with this.-Maggie Terry ’17

Raneem Hamad’17

Tyler Carlson'18

Brady Shuttsocial studies teacher

you…[in] a position of power...You have a hard time picturing yourself being able to rise up into that position.” said Terry. This switching of the bill is exactly what could change that.

But not everyone agrees that this will have a profound impact

on women and people of color. “I think it’s a really big... step forward for the government…[but] I’m not sure if it will change the general population’s emotions about anything,” said Meldi Sharpe ‘17. Terry echoes her sentiment.

“I don’t think this is a huge step for women...The fight does not end with this,” said Terry. Others are a bit more optimistic. “My hope would be that young women

or students of color...feel more included in the story of American history,” said Shutt. Harriet Tubman could be a breath of fresh air from a white-male dominant history.

Whether or not this change will significantly

impact minorities, there is no doubt that it will cause much controversy when it’s finally implemented. As a final note, Shutt said “I think it’ll

p r o b a b l y be in there [the h i s t o r y b o o k s ] in terms of not only the p r o g r e s s

and the expansion of rights, but also then the reactions against that.”

The twenty dollar bill will be getting a fresh face. Staff of the LYTE take to the halls of West High School to see what people had to say about this big change.

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12 PROFILE MAY 2016

HUMAN INTERESTBRANDON HU’18Hu doesn’t get caught up in technique or formality - he is freelance all the way.

With so much emphasis poured upon technique

and formality in art, the freelancers take a backseat. Self-proclaimed freelance artist Brandon Hu ’18 shares his story with the LYTE.

“I am a freelance...I don’t do that official and fancy stuff,” Hu said. Hu prefers to distance himself from formal art. “You know that episode in Spongebob where he’s like TECHNIQUEEEE? Yeah that’s not me.” Hu said.

Hu started drawing from a young age. “I started drawing just like any other kid, in grade school, where they force you to draw,” Hu said. After that humble beginning, Hu has been drawing ever since. Hu draws in almost every one of his classes and blames it on his boredom. “I draw in basically every class except AP Euro,” Hu said.

When it comes to medium, “I feel like I draw the best just using pencil and paper but I generally draw using a fountain pen for some reason. I find that it flows better,” Hu said. Whether it be pencil or fountain pen, Hu will continue drawing into the future. “I definitely do think I will do art in the future, not as a profession but I definitely will do it as a hobby for fun,” Hu said.

BY SAMALYA THENUWARA

PHOTOS AND DESIGN BY SAMALYA THENUWARA

IN A NUTSHELL

Compiled by Samalya Thenuwara

tL: What do you do in your free time? BH: Bum around my house

tL: Hummus or guacamole?BH: Guacamole. I prefer avocados over chickpeas

the LYTE: What is your life goal?Brandon Hu: I don’t have any life goals.

tL: What is your favourite meme?BH: Pepe.

tL: What is your favourite animal?BH: Squid.

tL: What is your favourite class?BH: AP Bio because I don’t really do anything in there so I can just play Pokemon

tL: T-shirts or PolosBH: T-shirts. [I] wear them everyday.

Below: Sonic the Hedgehog

Below: A squid

Below: Dr. Eggman

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Daifuku MochiJAPAN¾ cup shiratamako Mochiko/sweet rice flour¾ cup water¼ cup granulated sugar½ cup potato starch/corn starch1½ cup Anko (red bean paste)

1. Combine shiratamako and sugar in a medium bowl and whisk all together. Add water and mix well until combined.2. Cover a bowl loosely with plastic wrap. Put the bowl in the microwave and heat it on high heat (1100w) for 1 minute. Take it out and stir with wet rubber spatula. Cover again and cook for 1 minute. Stir again, cover, and cook for 30 seconds to finish cooking. The color of mochi should change from white to almost translucent.3. Cover the work surface with parchment paper and dust it generously with potato starch. Then transfer the cooked mochi on top. Sprinkle more starch on top of the mochi. Once it’s cooled down a bit, spread the mochi into a thin layer with your hands or with a rolling pin. Make sure to apply potato starch on your hands and the rolling pin.4. Transfer the mochi with parchment paper onto a large baking sheet. Refrigerate for 15 minutes until the mochi is set.5. Cut out even circles from the mochi.6. Dust off the excess starch and scoop anko into the center of the circles, then pinch the four corners of the mochi layer together to wrap the anko. Then pinch the remaining corners together.

VermicelliMiddle EastWaterVermicelliSugarSaltMilkButter

1. Pour about two cups of dry vermicelli into a saucepan and add enough water to cover it. Sprinkle in a pinch of salt.2. Bring the saucepan to a boil; continue boiling until the vermicelli is partially cooked (not very limp).3. Add about two tbsp of butter to the saucepan and continue cooking until it’s melted.4. Add sugar to taste. 5. Add about one cup of milk; continue boiling until vermicelli is fully cooked.

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Raspberry Macarons FRANCECOOKIE1 cup almond flour1 1/2 cups powdered sugar3 extra-large “aged” egg whites, at room temperature*1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar2 1/2 tablespoons superfine white sugar**a few drops of pink gel paste food coloring*Age egg whites by separating them beforehand and placing them, cov-ered, in the fridge for at least 24 hours.**Throw sugar into a food processor and process until it’s fine, but not powdered.

1.Place the ground almonds and confectioners sugar in your food processor and process until finely ground (about 1 to 2 minutes). Sift the mixture to remove any lumps.2. In the bowl of anelectric mixer, fitted with the whisk attachment (or a hand mixer), beat the egg whites and cream of tartar, on medium low speed, until soft peaks form. 3. Gradually add the superfine sugar, and continue to beat, on high speed, until the meringue just holds glossy and stiff peaks (when you slowly raise the whisk the meringue is straight up, no drooping, called a ‘beak’). Whisk in a few drops of the pink gel paste food coloring. 4.In three additions, sift the ground almond/sugar mixture over the me-ringue. Fold the almond/sugar mixture, using a large spatula, into the me-ringue by cutting through the meringue and then fold up and over, making sure to scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl. Do this until the almond mixture is completely folded into the meringue.5. Pipe rounds of batter onto the parchment paper. Then, tap the baking sheet on the counter to break any air bubbles. 6.Let the Macarons sit at room temperature until the tops of the Macarons are no longer tacky (about 30-60 minutes).7. Preheat your oven to 300 degree F with the oven racks in the top and bottom third of the oven. Bake the cookies (two sheets at a time) for about 16-20minutes, rotating the pans top to bottom, front to back, about halfway through baking.The Macarons are done when you can just barely separate the cookies from the parchment paper. If you find that the bottoms of the cookies brown too much, double sheet your baking pans.

RASPBERRY CURD FILLING1 cup sugar1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest1/4 cup fresh lemon juice8 large egg yolks 1/4 teaspoon coarse salt1 1/4 sticks unsalted butter (10 tablespoons), cut into pieces1 cup raspberries

1. In a medium saucepan, off heat, whisk together sugar, zest, and egg yolks, lemon juice and salt.2. Add butter and place pan over medium-high heat. Cook, whisking constantly, until butter has melted, mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon, and small bubbles form around the edge of pan, about 5 minutes DON’T BOIL.3. Remove pan from heat while continuing to whisk. In a blender, puree 1 cup raspberries. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, discarding solids. Fold raspberry puree into cooled curd. Press plastic wrap against the surface of curd and refrigerate until cool.6. Once both the cookies and the filling are cooled, proceed to fill the cookies by sandwiching the filling between two cookies of similar size.

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Crash. A loud noise wakes you

up in the middle of the night. You look out your bedroom window to see a glowing sphere in your

backyard. Investigate or go back to sleep?

STARTCHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE:

ALIEN VISITOR

You decide to snooze away. Some adventurer you

are…

Sleep. Gotta

get that beauty rest.

(Not that I

need it)

You approach the glowing sphere.

Just as you come upon it the top splits open and a little creature comes out. It’s small alien-boy-creature!

“It seems I have crashed my ship!” said the

a l i e n - b o y.

Investigate

Make fun

of his flying

skills.

Offer to help the alien-boy

The alien boy thanks you profusely.

“How do you plan get me back to my home

planet of Trojagon?”

Try

to b

uild

you

r ow

n ro

cket

You run and grab a boy and attach

some upside-down unopened soda bottles to it’s corners. Then you

grab a package of mentos. (Because mentos in soda = FIZZ). You get ready to put in the mentos when the alien-boy stops you. “Wait! I want to give you something.”

He takes out a gold medallion. “Thank you kind earthling”

You smile and accept the present.

You watch as your alien friend

boards gears up and gets ready to leave.

You wave as he gets smaller and smaller and deeper and deeper into the vast universe.

You think to yourself: I hope he gets to Trojagon

ok…

You suggest hi-jacking a rocket to the

alien. The alien looks at you for a little bit…

“I really don’t think that’s a good idea,” said the alien-boy. After thinking about it and coming to your senses you agree. You de-

cide to pick a different idea.(go back to previous

bubble)

Hijack a rocket

from NASATry to fix the rocket

You decide to fix the rocket. You move closer to the sphere. The

alien-boy follows close behind. You see a towards the bottom there is huge

crack and out of the crack oil is spilling out! You know what to do. You run and get the al-mighty DUCKTAPE. You patch up the crack and the glowing sphere glows even brighter. The alien gets in his ship and turns to look at you.

“Here – this is for you kind earthling” He pulls out a gold medallion. You

smile and accept the present.

The alien-boy angrily pulls put a lazer gun

and pulls the trigger but… nothing comes out!

“Drats! I didn’t charge this cosmic blunder!” said the alien.

The alien gives up and begs for your help. He offers either his alien gadgets or all his money. You decide to help.... Where he dropped his gun you noticed a puddle of oil forming. You see that there is a leak! You run inside and get

some duct tape. You patch up the leak and look expectantly at the alien-boy.

“Alright you did help me. What do you want? Gadgets or

Cash?”

You pick the cash. The alien digs through his newly

fixed ship. He digs out a large sack and hands it to you.

You open it and look inside. It’s a bag full of sea shells!“What? Wait! Alien-boy! This is not cash!!”

“Oh did I forget to mention? We use seashells for cash

in Trojagon…”You pick the

gadgets. The alien digs through his newly fixed ship.

He pulls out a few fancy looking electronics. He hands them to you. “Trojagon also has an abundance of volcanoes. These her gismos are not charged – we use volcano lava to charge them. I don’t know if your

geographic location has a lot of volcanoes…corn fields

won’t do…Oh well!”

The brat-ty little alien-boy

gears up his ship and you watch, with your worthless gifts in hand, as his ship becomes

smaller and s m a l l e r .

Gad

gets

Cash

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