Appointment Post!

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For any interaction that you want to happen with Katniss, anytime and anyplace within the luceti world that do not fit into a given post, please use this!

Just give a date and place, and whether this will be via journal or in-person!

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[shenevermisses]

[Clove nods. It will be a good lesson, she thinks. Gathering enough little creatures to make a meal. The patience and planning. It leads naturally enough into another question...

...but it's a question that she fears is too telling in itself, and too weak.]

If we catch enough, can I eat with you tonight?

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[That question might be the most surprising thing she's heard from Clove all day. More surprising than the other girl's silence, more surprising than her appearance in front of Katniss' door that morning.

Can I eat with you tonight?

Sharing a meal was something friends did. Something that further belayed a trust and understanding between them. It's... not as awful a proposition as she would have once thought.

But still, she has to ask:] Would Cato be joining us, too?

[shenevermisses]

[It takes a moment for an answer to come, and Clove's eyes are fixed straight ahead. She could be watching for movement of brush, for either prey or predator that might be out. It would be easy enough to assume that was her intention, certainly.

Or she might be just be honing in on nothing to not look at Katniss.]

No.

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[Being married. Having a child. Even more than that, being still alive. The hijacks here can leave someone with terrible repercussions, much like the hijackings from home. She can understand, then, Clove wanting to be away. Needing that time to sort out her thoughts.]

Okay.

[shenevermisses]

[It was bad enough when it was just her. Seeing a vision of what her life could have been. No more nightmares, no bitterness she can't quite admit or accept, no questions she doesn't know the answer to. Sure, she'd been bitter still, but, then, she could define it. The memory of a dream that never happened? Only made things chaotic.

And Clove likes her life in order.]

Okay.

[Thanks.]

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Even if we don't catch anything, [The sentence is paused as she turns to look at Clove again. Catches the silent thanks in the other girl's response and offers a 'you're welcome' in her own.] I have stock saved for the winter.

[There's another pause. A pause as she thinks, really, just how much she can trust the girl who killed her. But there's no one else here, no one else who understands all they've been through. Who can comprehend how difficult these hijackings can be.

Trust doesn't come easy. But she's trying.] You can still come back with me and eat.

[shenevermisses]

[That trust. Those words.

Clove takes awhile to respond, swallows hard as she makes herself speak. Her eyes close briefly, but they open again as she follows Katniss.

When she speaks, it's very low. Her reply is difficult.]

Thanks.

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[When there's no reply right away, she looks over at the other girl. She won't pressure her for a response right away. Clove will come to her own conclusion, will decide whether or not the offer is worth accepting. Maybe it's wrong of her to be this trusting, especially to the girl who had killed her. But here in Luceti, they didn't have anyone else. There was no one else who understood.

And in that, she could understand the need to form an alliance. To make certain the other survived. Because it could be worse. They could be alone. Because no one else here will ever understand what their world is like.

When the response does come, she shrugs. Tries to play it off with indifference.]

You're welcome.