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Katniss Everdeen ([personal profile] stillplaying) wrote2014-02-10 05:00 pm

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[How long has it been since she last opened the journal not to peer at the other entries but to make one herself? It feels much longer than the couple of months that somehow managed to move by so quickly. Forever, perhaps. And yet, in that short time, so much has changed. People have left. More importantly, people have arrived. Rue, Johanna, Peeta... And none of them have yet disappeared.

Two months of knowing Peeta's so close. A trip across town to his apartment. Walking by the bakery. His memory is no longer a ghost that haunts her. Instead, he's something real. Something entirely too real. Two months and she hasn't yet figured out if she's relieved to have him back. Or if she's more frightened of losing him. There's limits to the filial magic, as she's starting to discover. And those limits worry her. Will she lose him all over again? Lose Prim or Rue or Richard or Teddy?

If there's one thing that hasn't changed in these two months, it's her growing weariness of the disappearances in Luceti. Even Sokka, Sokka who had been here for four or more years, was now gone.

Who was next?

It's a nightmare that wakes her. A nightmare of losing everyone she loves. Watching them die at the hands of lizard mutts, necks ripped out by wild dog-like creatures with the eyes of lost children, others murdered in drafts against the Third Party. She wakes with a start, skin covered in a sheen of sweat, eyes wide and frantic. Her throat is soar from screaming in her sleep and she gasps. When her senses return, she turns on a lamp and reaches for her journal.

She can't lose anyone. Not even to something like returning home. But she takes the coward's way out and she pens her thoughts rather than admit to them aloud:]


There was someone here once who asked if it was possible to bring people here from home. Has anyone ever tried the opposite? Tried to keep people here instead?


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[That done, she throws on a leather jacket and boots over her sleeping clothing. She can't go back to sleep. Not right now. And she can't be in here either, not wanting to disturb her housemates any more than she already might have. Her bow is slung over a shoulder with her quiver, just in case.

It's cold out there but she doesn't care. There's something comforting about being alone in the night, no longer surrounded by oppressing walls. The nightmares don't seem so bad now, away from her bed. She can almost pretend things will be okay, regardless of whatever responses she might have to her inquiry when she gets back.]
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[personal profile] savedtheworld 2014-02-11 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
If it were possible to affect things like that... I don't know.

I can see the positive things that can come from it for certain people. [All those people who are dead back home.

And other special cases... including his own; neither he nor Ikki are near death, but they know that Aang's lifespan at home means that Luceti is the only time they may ever have to know each other.]


But at the same time, it seems like the kind of thing that can be... really dangerous.
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[personal profile] complicatedliar 2014-02-11 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
It all returns to the question of finding a way to control the method of transmission. I doubt anyone's done so successfully as of yet. But it's an area I am still slowly chewing over.
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[personal profile] complicatedliar 2014-02-17 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
I do not think anything impossible.

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[personal profile] axed 2014-02-11 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know, miss Mockingjay, sounds an awful lot like something people should get to decide for themselves. Even if we weren't all apparently trapped here like rats in a cage anyway. Just saying.
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[personal profile] axed 2014-02-19 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you telling me you think YOU should be able to keep people here if you want? I don't think that's how freedom works.

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[personal profile] ahappylie 2014-02-11 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Late nights were always spent at the Welcome Center. Souji had been manning it for nearly five years now, sitting down at the counter while others slept, listening to the journals for anyone unfortunate enough to come in during the dead of night. Usually, he was left with very little to do but clean while New Feathers who hadn't yet found homes slept in the back rooms. Other times, he read the journals and this time he read a question that shot through his heart in a way that left a burning hole.

It's the sort of question that gets a person out of bed, out of the house, away from the lights of the village and the quiet hum of people who might disappear. There aren't so many people in the Center tonight, so Souji puts on a heavy haori and heads out, looking for someone who looks like they don't want to be found.
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[It was the shadow moving on shadow and the glint of the bow that caught his attention. He knew how to spot people in darkness, and Katniss knew how to move in it. He followed her for a short distance, and then paused, knowing he shouldn't frighten her. When she was a good distance ahead, he reached over and snapped a small branch off a tree, letting it fall from his hands - that should serve to draw her attention.]

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[personal profile] rutagraveolens 2014-02-11 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Katniss isn't the only person in the house plagued with nightmares. Rue wakes with a muffled gasp, the blankets once more tangled around her tiny body. She extracts herself, shakily, and curls up, willing images of the arena from her mind.

Once she can breath again, remind herself she's alive - again - and safe, Rue quietly leaves her bed. She tiptoes out of her room, silent as ever, and toward the kitchen. She catches a glimpse of Katniss as she leaves the house. Rue heads to the window, watches her head off, then quickly hurries back to her room. She puts on a coat and her shoes, makes sure her knife is secure against her wrist as Clove showed her, and runs back out.

Katniss is gone, but Rue has her ways. She takes to the trees and whistles four familiar notes.]
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[personal profile] rutagraveolens 2014-02-19 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[The whistle echoes through the still forest two more times as Rue moves closer in, dropping into view once she's caught up with Katniss.]

Couldn't sleep?

['too' is the unspoken word. She's young, but not too young to escape her own nightmares from the arena, of her fear of dying and disappearing from the world.]

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[personal profile] etherion 2014-02-11 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
[The question is abrupt to Elie while she's flipping through her journal. It causes her to pause, to think on that one. A couple of people come to mind, though for her a couple of important people have already left.]

I haven't tried it, but I know people I don't want to leave. If they did, they'd be leaving me behind. I dunno if I could deal with that, being alone again. They're really important to me, and just thinking about it makes my heart heavy.
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[personal profile] etherion 2014-02-22 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Has it happened to you? Losing someone from here, I mean.
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[personal profile] readytobe 2014-02-12 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Would you really wish to do such a thing? To keep someone here in this prison, where our memories and bodies are tampered with?

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[ Whenever Katniss does get back, Prim will be awake, perhaps startled out of sleep by the screaming nightmare her sister had had earlier - or perhaps just by the open and shut of the door outside. Either way, she sits in the front room, a medical text open on her lap and a pot of tea on the table. There's a mug at her side, and a second one for whenever Katniss wanders back.

And Buttercup, of course, curled on the armrest and leaning into Prim's arm, ugly face smoothed in contentment. ]

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[personal profile] endgames 2014-02-16 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[This comes a week late - Shikamaru was on a mission when Katniss voiced her question, but he sees it when he gets back.]

Yes.

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[personal profile] universal_charm 2014-02-17 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ever since the incident with the nightmares, he was more and more afraid to sleep. He took to walking, to wear himself out. If he was so tired that he basically collapsed, well, the dreams came less and less.

So he wandered out on late night, pre-sleep walks, his breath misting in the air as his boots crunched over the ground. He found himself walking past houses, keeping close for when he got tired... and that's when he spied her. Katniss. ]


Hey, long time no see.

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