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Do you really think this is a good idea?

No?

I didn't think so. The Games are over, the war is over. Leave me in whatever relative peace is left for someone like me.

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Funny. I said the exact same thing.

And yet here you are. I'm shocked.

Don't worry too much about me, I'm sure I can be little more convincing than you are.

I'll take notes.

Sure, then you could write a book about me, it'd be a bestseller.

Maybe we could also have you do all those stupid propaganda commercials for me.

They think it's funny. If you threaten to break their faces.

Nah, you're the pretty one with the sob story. I'm just the brains of the operation.

It'll be a laugh riot.

Is there any peace left? Because I don't seem to be getting any of it, either. Perhaps I got in line too late.

I find the liberal application of morphling and smashing inanimate objects with axes helps, but it might not be for everyone.

Smashing things is very soothing, yes. I'm more of a swords girl, myself, so it tends to be more of the stabbing.

[...a lot of the stabbing, er. IT WAS JUSTIFIED, OKAY]

Nothing wrong with a good stabbing. It's a lot more subtle than an axe to the face, which you know, sometimes that's necessary.

Takes all kinds. Of weapons, that is. You a soldier, then?

[a bitter laugh] Yeah, let's go with soldier. We can make it even more dramatic and add a "child" before it.

And you?

A soldier as a child—I knew times were hard, but not that hard. No child should ever have to fight for their life.

Well, as for me—soldier by vocation, if not entirely by choice. Though when your choice is between probable execution and soldiering, I'm inclined to take the latter.

You must come from a lovely world, if you can say that with a straight face. Children always have to fight for their lives.

Depends who you're soldiering for, really.

Even if they do, they shouldn't. I had to fight for mine, too, in a way, if one counts fighting hunger and poverty. It's because of that that I don't want to see any others need to do the same. But even so, in besieged villages hereabouts, the children are kept away from the fighting. Where do you come from, that even the young fight wars?

Well, I'd say joining a force that fights against evil wasn't too bad of an option, although I wouldn't have minded skipping the demon blood-drinking, the nightmares, and ending a battle with just me and one other guy left. Good times, that.

Shouldn't doesn't mean anything. I come from Panem, where children fought to death for the entertainment of the Capitol, and now they'll fight to the death to show the Capitol what pain really is.

I'm sure you're a rarity there, wanting to skip the bad parts. [sarcasm is Johanna's best friend]

[... D: ....... D:< what the fuck even is this lady's world]

Elgar'nan be with you then, in your vengeance. Would that there was more justice in every world, but where it's lacking, there are, at least, those of us who can take it into our own hands.

[also, she understands. sarcasm: excellent coping mechanism]

I dunno who Elgar'nan is supposed to be, but I don't need any help with my vengeance.

As you said, some of us can take it into our own hands.

[Wry:]

It was more of a well-wishing than anything else, but you can take it or leave it if you please.

<It's never really over.>

"It's" is a pretty broad category. Plenty of things end.

It's over when you're dead, for example.

<...Yeah. I guess that's something.>

Yup, unfortunately not all of us get that lucky.

It helps if you realize that the ones who die are the ones who don't deserve to.

Then it's never a surprise.

Guess it's supposed to be the big mystery of life or something, you gotta figure it out on your own.

<I'm really starting to hate those. The answers always suck.>

Don't worry, a few more revelations and you'll start getting too bitter to give a shit.

You sound like Katniss. Fat lot of good meadows ever did her.

Oh no, she probably deserves to die. She just didn't. She had to survive like me.

<You're pretty hard on yourself.>

I murdered a bunch of kids, I voted to let more murder each other. What the fuck else am I supposed to be, except hard on myself?

Everyone was a kid at some point. [most evasive answer ever]

This war's over. There will always be more to be fought. Before you retire in complacency, are you certain that there will be others to take your place?

Well shit, no.

Of course I didn't. After everything I've been through, I'm not looking for my own damn replacement as well. They can figure it out themselves. Or nor. I don't care either way.

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