15th Throw - [ written ]

[shenevermisses]

[It's a question that's been on Clove's mind.

Okay, she's had a lot of questions lately. Valentine's Day and that whole week... It wasn't unkind, but it made her think too much. There were too many uncertainies. The ones with Cato... She didn't feel like thinking about.

But Katniss. She can talk about some of that.]

What do you all do for a living, where you're from? Or what were you going to do? Does everyone in your area do it?

In Panem... your district says a lot about what your job will be. Not always, but probably. Like me... If I hadn't gone to the Games? I'd probably have been the foreman in a factory. Or an overseer of a quarry.

And what you do... When did you learn to do it? And from who?

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[written]

[entwiningfate]

I worked as a park administrator back home. I operated and maintained the robots that cleaned and patrolled the park with my co-worker Yamase. He's the one who taught me how to maintain them. [Talking about Yamase makes him think back on his final, unpleasant memories with the man but he tries to push them aside for now]

Not many people were employed there are the office since not many people were needed for it and not many people needed the job. [He only needed it to pay for his tuition for the school he was going to not graduate from.]

[written]

[shenevermisses]

[A place where there are more jobs than workers. That isn't something Clove can imagine, really.]

Was it difficult?

[She remembers the boy from Three. How he programmed the bomb like a child skipping rope. She'd felt like an idiot when he'd talked about it. So easily, as if he expected the pack he'd been picked up by to understand every word he was saying.]

[written]

[entwiningfate]

It was at first. I'm an ecology major so at the time I didn't know the first thing when it came to the mechanics of robots and technology. Once Yamase taught me, it was easy for me to understand.

[But he probably caught on faster since he's a quick learner]

[written]

[shenevermisses]

[Parts of that make sense. Not understanding robots and technology. That's District Three, after all. But...]

What's an ecology major?

[written]

[entwiningfate]

It's a field of study chosen by students when they attend school to represent their particular interest. It focuses specifically on the principles of ecology, which is the study of the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment.