I move like a cat, talk like a rat, sting like a bee

[pineneedles]

WHO johanna mason + finnick odair
WHEN right now!
WHERE at the beginning!
WHAT johanna arrives!
WARNING hunger games is focused on children fighting to the death.

(In Panem, Johanna closes her eyes and wrestles with sleep for hours. When she finally loses consciousness, she awakes, standing. She nearly falls over. Looking around, she's at a crossroad. It looks like a poor, rural area, maybe she's in 12? Is she dreaming?

The sign at the crossroads indicates that there's a tavern in the direction Johanna starts to walk in. It's nice out, which is good, because she's without shoes and is in soft pants and a tank top. She has her axes at her side, which makes her feel slightly better.

The further in she gets, the more people and buildings she sees. This is not like the Capitol at all, nor is it 12...

She arrives at the tavern-- if not for the fact that she looked heavily armed, she also starts demanding answers.)

Where am I? Whose side are you on?

(It's enough to get the attention of someone upstairs.)

Comments

[fishermansweater]

[ He pretends that it hurts more than it does, reeling from her punch, but he's grinning, grinning in a way he doesn't do around most people: genuine rather than sarcastic, without the arrogant sarcasm he adopts so often around the people in the Capitol.

She seems to really actually be pleased to see him so the least he can do is show that he's pleased to see her too. ]

How is the thing nobody seems to have an answer to. Or if they do, they're not sharing.

[ He shrugs, affecting greater indifference than he truly feels. ]

[pineneedles]

Is anyone else here? The Girl on Fire?

(She hasn't heard from Katniss in a long time, it would be kind of weird to see her again.

She reaches out and grabs Finnick's bicep, like he's a teddy bear to grip onto. Like he might float away.)

Tell me about this place!

[fishermansweater]

You, me, and Annie. Haven't seen Katniss since the arena.

[ Annie answers a question that not many people know to ask him.

Or knew to ask him, before he screamed for Annie in the arena and undid years' worth of attempts at secrecy. ]

Come on. Annie and I have a room, upstairs. I can fill you in on what I know.

[ He gestures towards the stairs, then turns for the door. ]

It's not a lot. Either people don't really know why we're here or they're not telling.

sorry for the delay!

[pineneedles]

Annie's here...

(She's thankful. She doesn't say anything about a pregnancy, because if Finnick is still alive, then time is fucky here. But thankful that Annie doesn't have to cry over Finnick all the time.)

Yeah, yeah, let's go. (she waves at the bartender she was just accosting.) Later, man!

no worries and sorry in return - vacation turned out to be much busier than expected!

[fishermansweater]

[ Of all the people who could have been here with him and Annie, he's glad it's Johanna.

Finnick knows what to make of her. He trusts her -- more than he does Katniss, who'd looked ready to kill him more than once in the Quell.

So he grins, gesturing for Johanna to follow him, and heads up the stairs, strides quick, then down the corridor to his and Annie's room. It's a small room for two people, made smaller by the fish trap that's on the chair and the pile of rope in the corner.

Finnick moves the fish trap to the bed and sits down next to it, gesturing to the chair to say Johanna can sit if she wants.]

You just suddenly find yourself here? Far as I can work out, nobody seems to know why, but the same thing happened to me and Annie and some of the other people here. A lot of people say they're not from Panem, too. Never heard of it. Never heard of me.

we'll just slowly pick at this~

[pineneedles]

(Johanna follows Finnick and goes to sit in the chair near the bed. She does feel a little cramped, but she was never the type for claustrophobia. She's all grins, but it's kind of a mischievous smile, like she might bite you and start laughing.)

Yeah, I woke up and I was standing. I had my axes on me, but I was still in the clothes that I fell asleep in. I was just... here.

(When he tells her know one knows of Panem, she feels a small swell of hope.)

So there's no war here, or a war to recover from?