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[rocked]

Yeah, you're right; I don't have much of a voice to go on. Just a few lines here and there, and you have to work on making up more from that. Boo hoo; do you expect me to feel sorry for you? You did it once before, and you weren't completely dissatisfied with the result, even if it didn't last long. So figure it out quick, because you already put in the application, and I'm not going anywhere.

And while I'm waiting, I'm going to give you something else to think about. You like playing kids, because you like playing people who are growing up. But you also like playing people who die at this game in particular, and then leaving them dead instead of saving them. You've killed three kids like that so far.

So what does that make you, compared to me?

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[not_like_the_rest]

Mouthy as always.

[rocked]

... District 7, right? I've seen your Games.

[not_like_the_rest]

Yep. [She grins.] Johanna Mason.

[rocked]

Right.

You weren't bad.

[not_like_the_rest]

Good enough to live, for what that's worth.

[rocked]

I know, that's how I knew who you were.

[not_like_the_rest]

Not worth remembering the ones who died.

[rocked]

It depends on what they did. Some of them had good ideas that just didn't pan out. Things we can use pieces of.

[not_like_the_rest]

[Johanna just laughs.] Sure, kid. Those teachers of you can drill that all they want into your skull, train you, whatever, but it all amounts to shit in the arena. You saw.

[rocked]

You were prepared. It was just in a different way.

[not_like_the_rest]

Wasn't worth it.

[rocked]

What do you mean? You won.

[not_like_the_rest]

And then I lost everyone.

[rocked]

That couldn't have been the Games' fault.

[not_like_the_rest]

It was. I refused to be the Capital's whore, so they punished me.

[rocked]

... You're lying. That doesn't make any sense.

[not_like_the_rest]

Why would i lie to the dead?

[rocked]

I'm not dead, and your loved ones probably aren't either. This is a head game, and it's not going to work.

[not_like_the_rest]

[Laughs.] Right. Whatever.

[rocked]

It's going to take a lot more than that for someone from District 7 to win against me.

[distichs]

An amateur.

[rocked]

Hmm. That's true.

[distichs]

Then again, would expect you to be the better of any two. [ Except him, of course, but. Not the point he wants to make. ]

[rocked]

What about you and me?

[yep, she's going there]

[distichs]

I don't usually rate myself against ticks.

[ It's as close to joking as he gets - gold stars for trying, though. ]

[rocked]

I could make you pay for that, you know.

[she's also joking, though; there's no real anger here]