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[It's not something she understands. Where she is, how she got here, why she's no longer in District 12. How she woke up in the forest that was not the familiar source of sustenance she knew so well.

Or the book she finds beside her, where she would have expected her bow. A book is of no help in the forest. But it's the book that catches her attention, especially when she flips through it and sees a face she never thought she'd see again. It makes her chest hurt and she wipes a way any tears that threaten to spill.

Maybe she's dead. She doesn't feel dead, but how would she know what death felt like?

Katniss doesn't know if she's safe. She doesn't trust anyone. Except Rue.

So she knows what she has to do. Before anything else.]

Rue? Rue, can you hear me?

[Can people find her through this journal? She doesn't know. But even if they can, she should be safe in her tree. Is she even using this right? Katniss has never seen anything like it before, something that can write and record and even takes photographs. Not even in the Capitol.]

I'm looking for a girl. She's small, with dark skin and eyes. And when she stands, you can almost see her taking flight. [Katniss closes her eyes. It's so easy to picture. Was that really her in this journal?] Her name is Rue. Tell her... [And she pauses. What if she's already said too much? But it's so important to find her.] Katniss. Tell her Katniss is here.

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[Elicia's about to reply, but she notices that this girl managed to at least find who she was looking for; that's good.]

Oh!! You found her, Miss Katniss?

I was gonna look out for her, but you sound like you did...

She found me.

[And it's probably better this way. Because the last time Katniss went looking for Rue, she never got there in time. Not in time to save her. Which makes her wonder yet again. How is this even possible?]

That's good! 'Cause sometimes it's hard to find people here, when they show up; it took me a little while to find my mama, and my papa, too!

Can't you just look in this book?

Sometimes you can, but sometimes people don't realize it's a really cool magical book! I didn't know that, 'til I made pictures in it and people talked to me.

[Magic. There's that word again. But Katniss just thought this book was some sort of technology. Like something they'd come up with in District 3.]

It's a little like a telephone. Except it records the message so you can listen to it later. [A pause.] I don't think it's magic.

[woman you need to get used to it]

No, no, it's magic! Like how you can learn how to heal cuts and make your paper airplanes fly on your own; I'm gonna learn how to move water in the air real soon!

[She will. When she realizes she has no other choice.

Until then, she'll just look at the girl as if she's crazy. And repeat what she told the boy from earlier.]

We don't have magic in Panem.

Panem? That's the place you're from?

I'm from Amestris! It doesn't have magic either, but it's got lots of alchemy!

What's alchemy?

It's science!! [Or so Ed says.] Um, they write a special circle on the ground and they use pieces of stuff and put them together to make new stuff!

... Or something like that.

[That makes absolutely no sense to Katniss. She's well aware that she's not scientifically inclined, not like Beetee. Nor does she care to be.

But she'll keep that to herself.]

Okay.

What kinda' things do you have in your world? If you don't have alchemy or magic.

We have technology.

Ooh! Like robots and airplanes!

[She's not sure what either of those things are. So she offers an example.]

We have hovercrafts.

Hovercrafts!!

...

What're those? They sound cool!

[How to describe a hovercraft. It's not something she's ever thought of needing to do before.]

It's big. Meant to transport people and cargo by flight.

So it's like a airplane??

Does it have wings? Are they like our wings?

No.

O-oh... [whelp. that's kind of a letdown. winged flying thing-a-ma-bobs sounded cool.] Then... How's it fly?

[She's not Beetee. Or from District 3. How's she supposed to know? But that look the girl is giving her. It's one she's seen before, from Prim, a long time ago.]

There are things... on the bottom of the hovercrafts. [She pauses, trying to think best how to continue her description.] I think it uses them. To hover.

Woooow...! That sounds so cool!

[She leans her chin on the back of her hands where she sits at the table, peering excitedly.]

It sounds so cool, like magic...! I bet you could really feel like you're flying with one...

No. You don't feel it at all.

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