Clove (
shenevermisses) wrote2014-01-24 11:58 am
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22nd Throw - [ voice ]
There are some things you just can't teach. Not after a certain point.
[She doesn't sound frustrated or upset. Just... interested, in a way.]
It's weird, in a way. Trying to teach someone to be like me and finding out that's not possible. I mean, we're doing good. Great student.
[For Rue's sake more than anything, she's not going to name her over the journals, not going to divulge what they're doing.]
But there's just something different. How we were brought up. You can't teach that.
Which I guess is why they start us young. Start training us when we're five, where I'm from. Parents who think their kids have potential agree to send them off to the Academy, where they'll only see them maybe every weekend.
Usually less than that.
From there, they weed out the undesirable. The weak, the emotional, the nervous. Every year, there are fewer students your age. By the time we're sixteen or seventeen, there's only the best left.
At that point, only the girls who are stupid enough to get pregnant get sent away.
I guess I never really thought about it, but trying to teach someone else what I grew up with? You realize that some things just can't be taught. Not after a certain point.
[She doesn't sound frustrated or upset. Just... interested, in a way.]
It's weird, in a way. Trying to teach someone to be like me and finding out that's not possible. I mean, we're doing good. Great student.
[For Rue's sake more than anything, she's not going to name her over the journals, not going to divulge what they're doing.]
But there's just something different. How we were brought up. You can't teach that.
Which I guess is why they start us young. Start training us when we're five, where I'm from. Parents who think their kids have potential agree to send them off to the Academy, where they'll only see them maybe every weekend.
Usually less than that.
From there, they weed out the undesirable. The weak, the emotional, the nervous. Every year, there are fewer students your age. By the time we're sixteen or seventeen, there's only the best left.
At that point, only the girls who are stupid enough to get pregnant get sent away.
I guess I never really thought about it, but trying to teach someone else what I grew up with? You realize that some things just can't be taught. Not after a certain point.
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[Maybe she did have all that. But considering how competitive it all sounded, he doubts that.]
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[More than a few things, but he doesn't even stop to consider it.]
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...Do you think there's anything special about it?
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But I still don't see why you'd be okay going without family. Didn't you miss 'em?
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Even when I'd go home on weekends, I usually missed the Academy. Not the other way around.
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They paid? What exactly were you there for, anyway?
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We become strong, learn to use weapons and also do non-armed combat.
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Deadly? What the hell was that, hitman school?
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Are you fucking kidding me?
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