ninth snare

[fanstheflame]

[well. Katniss, Haymitch, AND Finnick all gone in one day. Haymitch and Finnick are no skin off his back, but Katniss, well. as complicated as things had become with her, she was still his best friend. and they'd started mending that, as of late. it had been slow, hard going - but they'd been managing. especially with Prim's arrival ...

and now it was like she'd been thrown right back into the Games. off with Haymitch, leaving him to look after Prim and make sure no harm came to her. it almost felt ... normal. Gale wasn't sure if that made him feel that much better, or ten times worse. he can't even go check his traps to take his mind off of it ... because that'll just bring Katniss even more to the front of his mind.

he needs something that's as far from Panem as he can get, as strange and foreign as possible. so he finds himself back where this all started, for him, where he arrived: in the Seasons Room.

he's got a cold drink - iced tea with a big slice of lemon - wedged into the sand next to him, as he starts building a mound that he's hoping he can figure out how to turn into a sand castle]

[Prim & Rue]

Hey, I'm up in the Seasons Room if you want to come say hi.

[/Prim & Rue]


... Does the tide even come in, here, or does the water stay in the same place all day? [tick, tock ... no. he's not even going to think about that.]

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[fanstheflame]

I did, yeah. I thought it was ... well. Never mind what I thought it was, I know it isn't, now. [he sighs, then decides he should probably ask her what he called her up here for, before he gets caught up in talking about everything else]

... You doing okay?

[fly_little_bird]

[That puts a damper on her mood, thanks. She looks down, moving closer and sitting next to him. Shrugging]

I guess. I don't know... [She sighs, hugging her knees to her chest and resting her chin on them] Everyone's leaving all at once.

[fanstheflame]

Yeah. [he sighs, reaching out to put a hand on her shoulder] I know. And .... I know we aren't all that close, but ... I'm still here. And if Katniss cared so much about you ... I'm gonna do everything I can to keep you safe, so that if she comes back, you're still in one piece.

... But only if you'll let me.

[fly_little_bird]

[She sniffs softly, nodding. She won't cry. She won't. She won't give this place more tears for her lost friend. She nods again, not quite trusting her voice, yet. Gale's right. They aren't that close, but yet they are. They were connected by Katniss, after all. And that's more important than anything else to her.]