looking...

[stillplaying]

Another game.

[The tone is flat. Upset. Disbelieving. Another game. She wants another game. As if the one that she's currently in isn't enough. As if it doesn't count to be kept in an enclosure, the subject to experiments and drafts. And while maybe life isn't as bad there as it once was - not with Peeta and her anonymity and the expansive wooded area to hunt in - that doesn't matter. That doesn't matter at all. She never asked to be there. Not once.

Nor is she asking for this. To be placed elsewhere as well. To find new allies, new patterns to keep herself sane. Hasn't she been through enough in her life? Hasn't she?]

No. I won't go. And if you make me, I'll do my best to make you regret it.

[Even if maybe, just maybe, she deserves it. She's become too complacent. Almost accepting of her time in Luceti.]

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[throwsdown]

But... how are you gonna be in two places at once?

[This kid doesn't get it, man. Then again, there's this debacle in his world with a clone and the original coexisting... But meh. Details.]

That's not gonna hurt you, is it...?

[stillplaying]

[She's not sure, not really. But it apparently works. Like she can be here right now, and still in Luceti. They're matters she'd rather not think about. Especially not now.

Still, her response is slwo and tentative. She's not sure, not at all.]

I don't think so.

[throwsdown]

That's good. People get hurt a lot, and I don't like that... [A lot of people died where he's from, but then... this place is a lot like Gantz. It brings dead people back and changes around things. It makes everything... wonky.] Um. I hope you don't have to go. I don't wanna go either.

[But if he does, he'll fight. He'll make the others proud.]