Eleventh Drink

[wastheexample]

[Maysilee]
[He'd been trying since he got here, and he'd continue trying. She couldn't have just VANISHED, and maybe she was trapped somewhere. Or...lost or...late. He shouldn't care as much as he did, he knew that, but he did. She'd become important, however much he'd like to deny it]

Me again. Look, I know we broke it off, but the Games have changed. Or...we're not in the Games any more, or whatever's happened. Just let me know if you get here, okay? There's all this talk about the future and it's just weird. I'm starting to wonder if everyone around here is crazy, so having a sane person to regroup with would be great.

Just let me know, yeah?[/Maysilee]

[That done, Haymitch has escaped to the roof, staring out at the wide expanse of Paradisa before him. Beside him is a map he'd found in the room with his name on. The filthy room that stank of booze (he didn't understand what the deal was with THAT, either). There had been something marked on the map. A way out, maybe. An edge. He looks at his journal again, unsure, before dictating into it]

So. Do you people just chose to stay here when you can walk out into the big wide world? I don't get why you say you're trapped when there seems to be so many possible escape routes from this place.

Comments

forever!

[wastheexample]

Peaceful? It feels like a lie.

naaah, Konzen makes a habit of meeting people on and off

[fatherandsun]

I suppose, considering my friends and I were under the very real threat of losing our lives and painfully at that, I prefer a temporary lie to the reality that I may be returning only to die and to let those friends down.

What say you to that?

[wastheexample]

Then I say I feel sorry for you.

[fatherandsun]

I suppose that answer makes sense.

Why do you want to return?

[wastheexample]

I have a family. They need me to help them or they'll starve. [Assuming he even survives the Games. It's something he doubts, regardless of what the other people of Panem tell him]

[fatherandsun]

Then I would think in your case it would be best to return. That is simply not the case for everyone. It does seem unfair in that light.

[wastheexample]

People are happier here?

[fatherandsun]

Perhaps some. I, myself, am. I am not being hunted to death nor am I constantly living in fear of the one I'm caring for being slaughtered or killed. Here, I am able to truly live, albeit not permanently. I have been told eventually everyone leaves.

[wastheexample]

Then you're the luckiest person I have ever met.

[fatherandsun]

I do not believe in luck. Nor do I believe in fate.

Only karma.

[wastheexample]

...Karma?

[fatherandsun]

Yes. The law of consequence.

Have you not heard of it?

[wastheexample]

We don't really get taught all that much in school.

[fatherandsun]

Your actions all have consequences, from the very small, to the very large. If, for example, you are one to raise your hand against another, you must then prepare for one to raise their hand against you. Such is the law of consequence.

[wastheexample]

That's just the law of fighting, you moron.

[fatherandsun]

...when you're ready to speak with maturity, I'll speak with you further.

[He closes his journal.]