A woman in her early thirties stroked back her black colored hair before continuing with her lesson planning.  Tomorrow she would be lecturing about the legendary Sailor Senshi.  It was a lesson that she looked forward to while still dreading.  Her students wouldn't have the experience that she's had so it may be more difficult for them to accept her stories.  

The Senshi, in both fact and fiction, had always fascinated her.  Myth had them has superhumans possessing powers over the elements themselves.  While they did have powers, they also had real lives, real problems, and were as human as her or any of her students.  That was going to be a sounding point for her lecture, to separate the fact from fiction and show them as the people that they are.

She set aside her notes.  Enough for tonight, she needed to get some rest.  Tomorrow would bring its own challenges.

*****

"And so the Senshi re-established our society with its ruler being Neo-Queen Serenity.  What were some of the difficulties that the refugees from the Twentieth would have faced?"  She asked her class.  

The school she taught at didn't have many students and only a handful of teachers.  Her class of a dozen ranged in age from 10 to 17.  The small class size allowed her to conduct the session as more of an open discussion than pure lecture.  She always encouraged her students to ask questions and discuss solutions amongst themselves.

"Getting a date," on of the older boys quipped.

"Follow through the idea," she encouraged instead of reprimanding as he had expected.

His brows furrowed a little.  "Well, if there weren't many cute girls to chose from that could make things uncomfortable when it came time to start a family.  I mean, if you're not interested in someone, you're not interested.  And then needed people to have children, right?"  He looked over to the boy sitting next to him, his best friend if she recalled correctly.

"I wouldn't want to..." his friend blushed. "If I didn't love the girl, I wouldn't do it with her."

She rescued him by addressing the class again.  "And so you see one of the problems with early repopulation efforts.  It would have worked out best if everyone could form into couples and have children, but that obviously wasn't going to happen."