[Dictated - Open to Katniss or Anne] [Baby!Plot]

[the_effect_she_has]

[The journal falls open, and a faint burn marks show on the edges of the page. There are sounds - sounds like crashing and slamming, and yes. Cursing. A great deal of cursing that suddenly became words.]

Come - back ... down here you damned bird! No, stop! Stop! Not the curtains! Don't set fire to the curtains! Sit! Stay! ARGH!

[Then there is the sound where she turns and yells across the room.] ANNE! Get out here and help me! You have got to help me! This thing is setting fire to everything!

[There was another crash, and Katniss sighs as a few more burn spots appear on the page.]

...I hate this castle...

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[deadlybanker]

They do seem less than inclined to take the spoken word to heart. This one...

[Meaning his own 'child'.]

... prefers eating shoes and is reluctant to leave them even with repeated commands. There must be something he will listen to.

[ensorceler]

The year last the castle cursed the denizens with changeling human babes. I do not know which is more of an insult.

[deadlybanker]

I would think the animal. How could a child be an insult?

[ensorceler]

Because it is not mine, nor human at all, no matter the guise. Scarcely different than the monster and it's thread.

[deadlybanker]

So what did you do with the child? You abandoned it some where perhaps?

[ensorceler]

I would not do such a thing, but I did not receive one for which I am ever grateful. I only observed it happen with others.

I am not fond of treating such true pleasures of motherhood as a passing fancy.

[deadlybanker]

Well said. Even with these creatures it is not possible to simply abandon them and this is what I thought even before the castle's little reminders that we should be responsible 'parents'.

[His was a light smile now, the temporarily merriment of a certain admission from Katniss lightening his mood enough to tease.]

It is regretful that your temporary foray into the motherhood of a phoenix resulted in a soaking.

[ensorceler]

Mistress Everdeen is as loose with her tongue as she is with her grip on water, I see. But I would prefer this over being caught aflame.