Re-education

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Challenge #04626-L242: Slow to Learn

She had been so very young, so very spoiled, when she was pulled out of the rubble. She tried to act like her family taught her to act, and she'd faced scolding for it, though she was never spanked. She tried to cry and stomp her feet like she'd seen some kids to do get their way, that didn't work either.

The day she started saying please, thank you, and helping others out of her own free will, she found people were nicer. Now, with her bakery, she helped other youngsters learn what she did. And yes she did get a horse. When she saved up for it, bought it herself, and made sure she took very good care of it. -- Anon Guest

When the revolution came, she was lucky she was in her nightdress. She was even luckier that her guard and her nurse hurried her out of the palace before the bloody coup could wreak its revenge in her direction. Ironically, what made Princess even luckier was that each and every one of her servants were fully prepared to lay down their life for her.

Unlucky for them that they did.

The last to perish was Princess' nurse, who used her own body to shield Princess from falling debris. Princess screamed her throat raw, that night, and cried until exhaustion dragged her down into something passing for sleep. When she woke, someone dragged her out. A stranger who wrapped her up in an itchy blanket.

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Challenge #03450-I162: No Dessert 'Til You're Just

The CEO drifts in space in a luxury - filled lifepod, with multiple lifepods filled with the survivors from his fleet linked in a circle around his own. The AI was safe in its own contained cube floating nearby. They were NOT happy with the CEO over this incident. Heh, and their recriminations were nothing compared to what the CRC had to say to him when they rescued everyone.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-03367-i079-accomplished-as-asked -- DaniAndShali

The AI known as Target

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