Voice testing...a voiceless muse

[faciem_vulpes]

Of course you never saw me say a word. Do you think that was by accident? Do you think I didn't mean to go through all of it not speaking to anyone, not making friends, never letting of them know my name?

I did. None of what happened in that arena was an accident. At least, none of what happened to me. I can only be in charge of my own situation, not anyone else's. I'm not that smart.

But they were all going to die. I was going to die. What would have been the point in making friends? Especially if I could play smart enough to not have to bother. Better to choke on poison berries than what happened to that girl from District 4.

I bet the one from District 12 didn't do much better for herself, in the end. Especially dragging that boy all over the place.

Let me hide here, if you insist on keeping me. I wouldn't advise sending me to any other..."games". I'll give you a show as dull as what I gave them.

((ooc: Given that we have slightly more movie canon for Foxface to go on than book canon, I'll be mixing them up a bit. Apologies about that. Also, apologies for the crap icons. They were literally all I could scrounge.))

Comments

[bindsthedead]

Not all games are so bad, though.

[faciem_vulpes]

You must play very different games.

We don't really have the time to play games, back in Five. Not when you're older. So it's really just the Games. I'm not sure I remember any others.

What sort of games do you have?

[bindsthedead]

There are several different games in the Old Kingdom and Ancelstierre. Games for children, like hide and seek, and games of chance, played with dice and cards, and games of strategy, like chess.

I haven't had much time for them lately, though.

[faciem_vulpes]

Because you had more important situations to handle. That's just how it goes, when you grow up. You agree, right?

[bindsthedead]

Yes. The Dead won't dispose of themselves.

[faciem_vulpes]

So, they don't just throw them in the factory furnaces in your District? That seems a bit inefficient. What do you do instead?

[Foxface had done a few stints on the grave shovellers, when the bodies piled high. It had left her inured to the sight of death bodies and with a determination to avoid becoming one for as long as possible.]

[bindsthedead]

We burn them when we can. But in the Old Kingdom, the Dead walk.

[faciem_vulpes]

...interesting.

Do they do anything in particular besides walk, or are they just cluttering up the place some more?

[bindsthedead]

They prey upon the living. It's the Abhorsen's duty to stop them.

[faciem_vulpes]

...so they're hungry.

I can understand that.

So. What's an 'Abhorsen'? Is it anything like a Peacekeeper?

[bindsthedead]

I don't know what peacekeepers are, but an Abhorsen's duty is to protect the living.

[faciem_vulpes]

Oh, is that right? Then they really aren't like Peacekeepers at all.

I'm not sure what would happen if the dead were around as anything but fuel in Panem. I don't think the Peacekeepers would do so great, actually. But, well, the rest of us wouldn't do so great, either. Except Five. We have plenty of fire in Five.

[bindsthedead]

Fire and running water are the easiest ways to stop them. They fear fire, and none of them can pass over or under running water.

[faciem_vulpes]

I guess running water could be just as dangerous to them as fire. It speeds up decomposition, doesn't it? Even the dead wouldn't want to die a second time.

...there aren't many easy ways to die.