Voicetesting a possible Road of Trode AU.

[mockhero]

Once, I just kept walking. The wilderness is bigger than people think, and I kept going even when it turned into foothills. I thought it would get richer, the further out I went. Instead it just got colder.

The Teshi tribes thought I'd stolen one of their bows. I had to run.

Where are we supposed to go? There are the mountains -- the Teeth -- on one side, and Tesh on the other, and the Weaver beyond that. So Twin City is home. People don't have any other choice.

It's stupid to dream of something else. Especially something like the Hunger Games.

I don't care what advice you got. The Twin City has people starving, just like District 12. That hotel doesn't.

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[disbenefits]

Well, some of them starve and some of them watch.

[mockhero]

It's not as bad as the Capitol.

[ ...wait. ]

The... the other Capitol. The one I dreamed.

[disbenefits]

I wouldn't know. But the fact that starvation is 'not as bad' doesn't comfort me too awfully much.

[prettyknives]

Hunger Games...? [sounds familiar. Same dream?]

[mockhero]

I wasn't trying to comfort you.

[mockhero]

[ Katniss's eyes snap up, widen and she goes stiff. ]

You can't be here.

[prettyknives]

I can be anywhere I want.

[mockhero]

Not here. Not on the Ark.

[prettyknives]

Too bad.

[mockhero]

Just be careful around me. Accidents happen all the time in lower Twin City.

[prettyknives]

I can take care of myself, but thanks for the warning.

[mockhero]

I beat you once.

I ... think.

[prettyknives]

I don't know what you're talking about, but you're clearly delusional.

[mockhero]

What if it's a virus? The same virus could have hit us both.

[ Wetware viruses, the kind that infect your brain and make you crazy. ]

[prettyknives]

[psshhh she doesn't need a virus to be crazy] Then you're definitely delusional.