third birdsong

[fly_little_bird]

[Friends (If you've even had ONE friendly conversation with the girl this applies to you.)]

Um... I'm sorry I haven't really been around lately. I don't know if any of you know Peeta or heard him tell people what's happening but I didn't want you to worry.

[She takes a breath] In my world there's something called The Hunger Games. Every year two kids, a boy and a girl, are picked from each District to go to an arena and fight. [She pauses] There's only one winner... another girl from the Games I was in got here, Clove. She's what we call a Career. They train for years for the Games and volunteer to go.

I don't want her to know I'm here... at least, not yet. I've been staying with friends. I miss all of you, though. How have you been?

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[Though she's not about to announce her presence she still misses talking to people. She hesitates a moment before picking up a pencil and writing a question]

What's your favorite flower?

((ooc: Open over the journal. She will be writing forever unless stated otherwise. BLAME CLOVE! /shakey fist. :P.))

Comments

[fly_little_bird]

Still, it means a lot. You and Peeta and Dr. Beckett... You all saved me.

Yeah, I've got lots of people looking out for me, now. I've been staying with different people so Clove doesn't find me.

[spiritusaequitas]

That's a good trick. [he approves, obviously.] ... F'you start runnin' out of places she can't find you ... you've a place here in th' church with us, should you need it.

[fly_little_bird]

The church? What is that?

[spiritusaequitas]

S'where me and my brother live, down in town. Y'don't have churches in your world, then?

[fly_little_bird]

No... we don't have anything like that. Your brother's here? That's good. I'm glad you have family, here.

[spiritusaequitas]

Y'don't have churches? ... Well, where d'you go for worship, then? For your God? Or Gods ...

[he's never one to disrespect another religion, after all]

[fly_little_bird]

I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean.

[Religion? What is THAT?]

[spiritusaequitas]

Y'don't ... [he thinks about this a second] Y'don't have any gods where yer from? Nobody believes in a higher power? Nobody at all?

[fly_little_bird]

A higher power? Like the government?

[spiritusaequitas]

No no. Higher still'n'at. ... A being older than th' world itself, someone or something that created it, and everythin' in it .... someone you can call on for strength in times've trial, t'guide you on th' right path...

You never heard of anythin' like that?

[fly_little_bird]

No. Nothing like that. There's someone who created the world? All of it by themselves?

[spiritusaequitas]

That's what religion is, yeah - th' belief that there's someone or somethin' who did, even if y'don't have any concrete proof they exist. That's faith.

[fly_little_bird]

You believe in something that might not have existed? But... why?