001 🔥strange things did happen here

[burn_with_us]

WHO: Katniss Everdeen
WHERE: 6I village
WHEN: 6 May (before Peeta arrived)
OPEN TO: all
WARNINGS: TBD

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Katniss has been here a few days and it's already long enough.

From the moment she climbed from the fountain, she's thought this place was an arena and nothing she's seen has given her the impression it isn't some sort of Capitol trick, though the arena might be a stretch. It's more like a District, given the lack of traps, but she's still not trusting anything. She doesn't want to fall victim to a trap, to lull herself into thinking she's safe when danger can be lurking around any corner.

She feels safer under the cover of trees than out in the open so she'd taken to them as soon as she'd pulled herself from the fountain a few nights before, still dripping as she scrambled up a likely redwood and perched there to get the best view of the surrounding area. There's a village where the fountain is and it looks for all the world like the town part of 12, like the little houses the merchants had before everything had been blown to smithereens.

There's people who come and go, yes, but she hasn't seen any peacekeepers. She journeys through the woods during the night and finds that there's no fence, so far as she can tell, but she'd managed to stumble into a few ant hills and get stung; it's this that drives her into the village. None of the plants here are plants that she knows and she doesn't know what will draw out this poison. The welts on her arms and legs are painful even if she doesn't feel sick and the sun is up and has been for a while. It's not terribly hot, which is a blessing, but the pain from the bites doesn't make it an easy trip.

By the time she actually makes it into town, she's more than ready to get her bites tended to so she can go back to the woods and hide a little longer. She'll have to move camp to make sure she's not followed but better this than to die.

[Find Katniss on the edge of the woods, near the hospital or anywhere else in the village.]

Comments

[burn_with_us]

Katniss frowns, trying to work that out. How is it a district without fences? How is it an arena without some sort of force field barrier and people trying to kill her? It doesn't make sense. The only thing that does are animals that attack - muttations.

"There was another village before? When did you come here? How did you get here?"

[iron_beneath_beauty]

Again, it wasn't something that would be easy to explain. "The first village looked the same as this one, but some of the houses were destroyed over time because of earth quakes and flooding." The village at least felt lived in, compared to this.

"One day, we were pulled through the fountain and found ourselves here. It's the same as when you were brought here. Only, our hair was longer, as if we had been asleep for some time."