first quack [ dictated ]

[asaraindrop]

[ Katniss had told her about the journal. Katniss had also told Prim not to use the journal. Except that Katniss had gone out, just to the kitchen to get them some food. Except that Katniss was taking longer than she'd promised, and Prim was a little worried. She didn't like Paradisa, or the chance that something could happen, or had happened to her sister.

What if she'd left? Or something even worse had happened?

That's why when you hear the voice (she at first thinks she's just talking to Katniss) it's very panicked ]

Katniss? [ Pause ] Katniss? Where are you?

[ And then Prim notices that her words are all over the journal, which isn't quite as private as she'd thought ]

Hello? [ Pause ] This isn't just to Katniss, is it?

[ Oops ]

Comments

[dictated]

[not_like_the_rest]

No, it's not. [she pauses for a moment. Hmmmm.]

Who is this? I'm Johanna Mason.

[asaraindrop]

[ Oh no! Katniss would not be happy with this, not when she's been trying to hide Prim (which Prim knows). Quick! Lie time. The 'don't tell people who you are, Prim!' kind ]

I'm... a friend. [ The innocent lie badly ]

[not_like_the_rest]

[She can hear the lying in your voice, Prim. Johanna is very good like that.]

A friend from Panem? [Also KATNISS HAS NO FRIENDS. Everyone can see that from the way she acts.]

Dictated forever

[imalwaysright]

Uh, no. Sorry. You just broadcasted that to everybody who's got a journal.

[asaraindrop]

Yes. [ That one she's not lying about since where else would her friend be? AND KATNISS HAS FRIENDS. Some ]

[dictated]

[gumthief]

What's the matter, ya new?

[asaraindrop]

I didn't mean to. [ Clearly ]

[not_like_the_rest]

Well, I'm a Victor from District 7 and I know Katniss too. You don't have to worry about me. I'm on her side.

ACTION B|

[accidentalrebellion]

[Katniss has been trying to hide Prim. That much is a fact. Because Paradisa is not a friendly place. Because any number of horrible things can happen in the blink of an eye. Because it's already taken Prim away from her once, and no matter what she remembers or doesn't remember, she'll be damned if she's going to let Paradisa take her away again.

(Excessive? Maybe. But in Katniss's mind, it's completely justified.)

She only just happens to see this over the journal. And when she does? Whatever she may be in the middle of doing at the moment is unceremoniously dropped (... she may or may not have gone out beyond the kitchen).

By the time she arrives back at the room, she's completely out of breath, having taken the whole journey at the fastest possible flat-out run she could.]

Prim! [Breath.] What....--?

[asaraindrop]

No. [ Yes. Ish ]

[imalwaysright]

Kinda figured. What with the name repetition.

You might want to close the journal next time.

[gumthief]

Then you can go find this Katniss yourself, can't ya?

Is that a boy's name or a girl's name?

[asaraindrop]

[ When Katniss enters Prim turns around from where she's sat, alert, afraid and now relieved. Seeing her Prim rises, running to her and wrapping her arms tightly around her, hugging her tight. The relief that Prim now feels should be obvious in her grip, but she's no less afraid - not of the castle ]

Katniss. I was worried.

[asaraindrop]

I can't. [ She could but that would be even worse at hiding Prim than this is ]

She's- [ My sister ] a girl.

[asaraindrop]

She's not here, I needed it open.

[gumthief]

You can't?

-- Did someone besides the magic castle kidnap you?

[imalwaysright]

There's this thing called filtering.

[Insert filtering instructions]

In case you only want to talk to one person.

[asaraindrop]

[ A victor from District 7? Prim obviously knows there are some but as for her being on Katniss's side and being able to trust her? Prim doesn't know that ]

I'm- [ Quick, Katniss friend fake name time ] Madge. [ At least she's a friend? ]

[asaraindrop]

No, but I can't leave. [ it's kind of honest? ]

[gumthief]

Kidnapped.

Kick the bastard who did it between the legs.

[asaraindrop]

She didn't tell me. [ Or maybe she did and Prim just forgot in her panic

But hold the phone someone... helped. This is so far from District 12, tho those people helped their own ]

Uh. Thanks.

[asaraindrop]

No one kidnapped me. [ There's a longer pause here ] Shes keeping me safe.

[imalwaysright]

[That's what he does best. Helping people, researching things.]

Yeah, no problem. Remember that the next time you need her.

[akito]

Hello.

If Katniss is around they will definitely hear you..!

[gumthief]

And she's not letting you leave the house?

[or the room; the castle; whatever]

Ya grounded?