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[hellofist]

Halloween is... for candy and costumes, right? Scary movie marathons, haunted houses. [There's a short, thoughtful pause here.] Or haunted castles, I guess.

This is first Halloween, for me. Not really sure... how it works. What do you do, where you're from?

Will need a costume...

[For anyone who happens to be out on a walk today, Cass can be found sitting on the grass outside the castle with a rather large pumpkin, a set of plastic carving tools, and an electric carving knife that's been kind of tossed off to the side. Apparently, the castle decided to get cute with her when she asked for something to carve her pumpkin with.]

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[the_effect_she_has]

Reaping Day. It's when the 24 Tributes are chosen from across Panem to play in The Hunger Games. We get the day off from school, and no one has to work.

[No one really wants to, to be honest.]

[hellofist]

[Something called Hunger Games doesn't exactly sound so fun, so she's guessing it must not be a good thing.]

Well, you're here now. No Hunger Games, just the castle.

[Which hasn't exactly been all that fun lately either but let's just ignore that. Try to find the bright side, Katniss!]

[the_effect_she_has]

Agreed. Something of an improvement. So ...tell me about this 'Halloween'.

[hellofist]

Can't tell much, just what... they show on TV. Kids in costumes, getting candy, carving pumpkins.

[Which she's trying to do now, if you listen closely you might hear the sound of her plastic knife attempting to cut through the pumpkin she's procured.]

[the_effect_she_has]

So ... why do people dress up? Why do they give out candy? And what have the pumpkins have to do with it?

[Because what is this stuff with this crazy holiday? Although she can see the pumpkin pulp on the edge of the page.] You okay?

[hellofist]

[Your guess is as good as hers, Katniss, she's trying to figure all this out too.]

Not sure. It's fun, I guess. Maybe we'll... find out, here.