A-Z Challenge Day 20

Posted Saturday April 23

Tacent adj. silent

Torvous adj. stern

Transillient adj. passing abruptly from one state to another

Tranducted v. Transmitted

Tanquam n. someone sufficiently educated to enter university

Twenty chattering teens filed into the laboratory. They stood before of a row of high-backed black chairs. A bell sounded. They fell tacent then sat as one.

A torvous technician entered the room and walked from child to child applying electrodes to their temples. He then sat before a monitor.

Again the bell sounded and the children’s eyes snapped closed as they became transillient. From the electrode on the left questions, problems and conundrums were tranducted into their minds. Mathematics, scientific computation, interplanetary culture, lunar geography. The right-hand electrode recorded their answers, solutions and explanations.

The bell rang. Their eyes sprung open. They stood. The tanquam students filed through the outlet on the right to be greeted by their ecstatic parents. The remainder walked to the doorway on the left and returned to their learning pods to continue with their educative programming.

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