stillplaying | 1st Game [voice]

[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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[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.

Really? Even though you're flying through the air?

[gosh, they really need to fix that]

Yeah. Sometimes, if there are no windows, you wouldn't even know you're flying.

Like... like how the world turns, but you can't feel it...!

I learned that in school the other day!

[She laughs, remembering how Prim would greet her with the same enthusiasm.]

What else did you learn?

Oh, I learned that trees makes fruit yummy on purpose, so people and animals'll eat them and drop the seeds everywhere. I didn't know trees were so smart!

Did they teach you how to find these fruits and seeds?

N-no, not yet! I don't think I'm old enough yet, and papa says I shouldn't go into the forest 'cuz scary things could happen...

[She's new here. She doesn't know anyone but Rue. Doesn't know who she can touch.

But what harm can such a tiny girl do?]

How old are you?

O-oh, I'm six! Six-years-old!

But I'll be seven in August; that's the month I was born. Mama says it's still kinda far away, but I'm good at waiting!

Oh, I think that's plenty old enough.

[About the age she was when her father first took her into the forest. And because this little girl makes her think so much of Prim, of her little duck before any of the real hardships hit, she'll offer.

She shouldn't. But she can't help it. The girl's smiles make her want to smile, too.]

If you ever want, I can teach you.

[omg REALLY~~]

You'd show me?? How to plant a tree, or flowers, or things like that? Honest?

Honest.

[She's not going to lie to a little girl, especially a little girl currently looking at her with such wide eager eyes.]

How to plant, how to harvest. Which fruits and nuts and seeds are good for you and which aren't.

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