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shenevermisses) wrote2012-10-25 07:19 pm
shenevermisses) wrote2012-10-25 07:19 pm
10th Throw - [ voice ]
[Backdated to 4:30 AM, October 25th:
A little over twelve hours have given her time to think.
With everything she knows about this place, the body might be gone by now. But it might not. It's too close to her camp to deny knowledge and be believed.
The lie she told Cato will have to do for everyone.
So, at four-thirty in the morning, after dressing for the draft she was called for, she opens her journal.]
Katniss Everdeen died yesterday.
[The announcement. Now, the lie.]
We were hunting and ran into a pack of wild dogs. We separated. I found her after, but I was too late.
[It only buys her a week. Six days, now, until District Twelve comes back and tells everyone.
But a week's a long time in the Arena. A week will help.]
I'm leaving with the others for the draft soon, but I wanted to tell everyone first.
[Back to battle and bloodshed.
Where everything will make sense.]
A little over twelve hours have given her time to think.
With everything she knows about this place, the body might be gone by now. But it might not. It's too close to her camp to deny knowledge and be believed.
The lie she told Cato will have to do for everyone.
So, at four-thirty in the morning, after dressing for the draft she was called for, she opens her journal.]
Katniss Everdeen died yesterday.
[The announcement. Now, the lie.]
We were hunting and ran into a pack of wild dogs. We separated. I found her after, but I was too late.
[It only buys her a week. Six days, now, until District Twelve comes back and tells everyone.
But a week's a long time in the Arena. A week will help.]
I'm leaving with the others for the draft soon, but I wanted to tell everyone first.
[Back to battle and bloodshed.
Where everything will make sense.]
voice
The prey population is controlled, they do not overrun the woods, and she and Twelve are not that prolific of hunters. To control that, there must be predators.]
I've heard of it, yes. Never encountered it.
voice
[ There's a distracted lilt to her voice, as if she's more than a little more in touch with her thoughts than the conversation at hand.
Of course, her own encounters with the being weren't very ... positive, but the idea of speaking to her seems more interesting now than it had before she went home briefly and became rather divine herself.... ]
voice
[And Clove, really, doesn't care.
The truth will come out when Katniss returns. She doesn't know what will happen to her then, but, for now, this lie will keep her safe.]