shenevermisses | 13th Throw - [ action / written ]

Written:

I want a specific scenario in the Battle Dome. Can someone help me program it? I'll repay you. Terms can be discussed before the programming.

Action:

[Clove will be waiting outside a room in the Battle Dome. She hasn't been sleeping, and it shows. She's also been skipping meals.

She has her Journal with her, and she's dressed for a fight. Tribute from head to toe, knives in her vest.]

Written:

[The next short message appears a few hours later.]

It gets so quiet here. Between missions and drafts, there's just nothing. That's the one thing I hate about this place. It gets too quiet.

Action:

[For most of the evening, Clove will be at her camp. She's turned up a little game to cook, and she's ignoring the cold as best she can. She considers, as she starts to really feel the nipping of winter, knocking on Katniss's door. She could probably sleep there to escape the cold and not go back to the apartment.

She's not sure she's ready to go back and face Cato yet.]

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[Clove opens the package and regards the biscuits carefully. She takes a small bite.

Suitable.]

Thanks.

You're welcome. Have you been unwell recently?

[She doesn't want to pry too much, but Clove isn't looking healthy and she likes Clove well enough to care about her general well being.]

[Clove considers it for a few moments. There's no reason to tell anyone... but Konan's not too bad.]

Haven't been to my place in a couple days. Sort of... awkward. With my... [boyfriend? roommate? friend?] the guy I live with.

[Konan listens calmly, wondering if this means Clove has been wandering on her own since then.]

Did the two of you argue about something?

[She'll try not to pry too much, and keep it to things that Clove can mostly answer with yes or no if she chooses.]

I...

[Clove frowns.]

I don't think so. I don't know.

[Konan... isn't quite like Katniss, but she's close. So she can get some of the details. Just some. Other secrets, Clove will guard much more closely.]

We're not very good at this kind of thing.

[She's curious as to what Clove means, but she notes the choice of words. She doesn't want to tell much. Instead of pressing for more information, she offers a little of her own.]

I spent most of my life living with my two best male friends. Giving one another space is important, but so is communicating with each other.

Last part isn't our best area. We never needed it in Panem.

[Things had been easier then. Here, everything was different.]

So. I'm giving him space.

Have you been staying with anyone in the meantime?

[She's kind of doubting it, given how tired Clove looks, but it's worth asking about.]

Sort of.

[It's hard to explain the unspoken agreement she and Katniss have.]

If you do need somewhere else to stay for a night or two, you are welcome to sleep on my couch.

[Konan isn't one to be overly social, but she doesn't like the idea of anyone she knows and gets along with doing without shelter.]

[Clove looks at her, genuinely surprised. It doesn't register as shock, but her expression reveals how unexpected such an offer is.

And, after a moment, she manages to quietly say:]

Thanks.

[Konan simply nods. She understands the value of little kindnesses and she doesn't want to make it a bigger thing than it needs to be.]

Would you prefer that I give you my address, or should I meet you after some training and walk with you?

Just your address. I... might not need it, but. [But maybe it would do her good to get away from everything. From Cato and Katniss.

If not this time, then later.]

[One of Konan's papers flutters out and stiffens itself as Konan reaches for a pen and writes her address down.]

If you need to, you are welcome to visit.

[Clove nods and takes the paper. She folds it before pocketing it.]

Thank you.

[It's never easy to say.]

[Konan nods.]

Until then, I'll leave you to your training.

[Pause.]

If you would like to talk some more afterward, I will be doing some training myself.

Sure. I'll... talk to you later. [Maybe not right away, but it's something she'll remember.]

Until then.

[Konan inclines her head and heads off to her own training program.]

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