Fourteen years old and the mouth of sailor, she was swearing under her breath as she ran, though she was getting slower and slower as she went. Whatever she was running from (spoilers, it was raptors) was long gone, but she didn't feel safe yet - trying to put as much distance between herself and those teeth as humanly possible.
She wasn't armed. Just a stick and a battered piece of wood, and she was hungry as hell despite being able to scrounge a couple supplies from well meaning tributes. She had no supplies to speak of and it was very clear that she had been sleeping in the same clothes for days - rain or shine.
She was, all things considered, a complete mess. But she'd been in bad situations before, and she'd survived those, so she was damn well going to survive this one.
She was still running (well, jogging and limping, maybe) when she heard something through the trees. A voice, singing. Who the fuck went around singing?
Her heart lurched at the sound, though, drawn to it at the same time that she thought it was idiotic, and she made for it.
"Are you stupid?" She hissed through the trees when she found him. Not Joel. She knew it couldn't be, of course, but for some reason -- Stupid. She shoved the thought from her mind. "Are you trying to get yourself killed?"
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Fourteen years old and the mouth of sailor, she was swearing under her breath as she ran, though she was getting slower and slower as she went. Whatever she was running from (spoilers, it was raptors) was long gone, but she didn't feel safe yet - trying to put as much distance between herself and those teeth as humanly possible.
She wasn't armed. Just a stick and a battered piece of wood, and she was hungry as hell despite being able to scrounge a couple supplies from well meaning tributes. She had no supplies to speak of and it was very clear that she had been sleeping in the same clothes for days - rain or shine.
She was, all things considered, a complete mess. But she'd been in bad situations before, and she'd survived those, so she was damn well going to survive this one.
She was still running (well, jogging and limping, maybe) when she heard something through the trees. A voice, singing. Who the fuck went around singing?
Her heart lurched at the sound, though, drawn to it at the same time that she thought it was idiotic, and she made for it.
"Are you stupid?" She hissed through the trees when she found him. Not Joel. She knew it couldn't be, of course, but for some reason -- Stupid. She shoved the thought from her mind. "Are you trying to get yourself killed?"