On another beautiful, sunny winter day, with not a cloud in the sky, did Robert Jones arise from his bed to prepare for school, Mogouth City Sector 7 Public Middle School. It was currently exactly 8:00 A.M.
He put on his clothes, brushed his teeth, ate breakfast, and picked up his backpack and face-mask.
Why did he need a face-mask to go to school? It was what the Board Of Directors decreed was mandatory. The Board Of Directors, fully known as the Mogouth City School District Board Of Education Directors, composed of some unknown individuals elected by some unknown government-elite, resided within a very large building with possibly hundreds of windows in an obscure area downtown where various other government offices were located. The "official reason" for the face-mask decree was to prevent evil spirits from exiting students' mouths, and thereby preventing them from possessing other students. As of yet, there still has never been any study which proved the existence of any evil spirits.
Robert did not believe in evil spirits. He was seen as "brainwashed" an/or an idiot by most others for this belief (or rather lack thereof). When he asked his teachers to prove the existence of evil spirits, Robert was usually shot down by the cry of "I am merely following orders!" It was quite obvious: orders need not have any reason or basis in truth whatsoever; they merely must be followed! The same rule applied, even more strictly in fact, to Robert and his fellow students.
The first period, of which there were six each school-day, for Robert, was "Critical Thinking Skills Class" (commonly abbreviated "CTS Class"). In the room for this class, which was room 70, on the wall by the door, there was a large poster that read, "THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CLAIM AND AN ORDER! A CLAIM MIGHT NOT BE TRUE, BUT AN ORDER MUST BE FOLLOWED NO MATTER WHAT!"
At school, students were never allowed to socialize except during the fifteen-minute and twenty-five-minute breaks. If someone was caught talking, they were commonly sent to the Master, who was to be called "Ms. Johnsen," except while she was interrogating someone, during which time the person under interrogation must refer to her as "Master Johnsen." If the offense for which one was sent to her was talking, there was