first; voice (when useless dreaming comes to an end, who will carry all your fears?)

[bekommen]

... Jesus. All right, since it looks like we're all gonna die anyway, I may as well do this now. I'm taking a vote - who agrees that Fear asshole is a complete dick?

Also, not that it really matters, but was anyone else in Vancouver before you ended up here? Humor me.

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voice

[64th]

[ actually she's not sure if Hope or Fear is a bigger asshole. ]

What the hell is Vancouver?

voice

[bekommen]

It's a city.

[Duh. Obviously.]

Actually, there's two of 'em, I shoulda specified.

[64th]

Well there's zero Vancouvers where I'm from.

[bekommen]

So I guess your answer's no, then, isn't it?

[64th]

My answer's no.

[bekommen]

Fine, noted. What about the other part?

[64th]

Sure, he's a dick. Hardly the biggest bastard I've had the displeasure of meeting, though. He just kind of plays at it.

[bekommen]

But would you say he's a complete dick?

[This is an Important distinction, obviously.]

[64th]

Absolutely.

[bekommen]

Good. That's one for the yes column.

[If she had, you know, a pen and paper to keep track.]

So where were you before? Besides not Vancouver.

[64th]

Technically a hotel, in reality something more like a prison. Kind of like this place but with housekeeping. [ creepy housekeeping. ]

[bekommen]

Do they not have cities at all where you're from?

[64th]

You asked me where I was before, not where I'm from. I'm from Panem, and yes, we have cities. You can't leave them except for official Capitol business, but we do have cities.

[bekommen]

Jesus, fine, if you wanna get technical about it. This hotel, where you were before was it - what, floating around in space or something?

[64th]

[ yeah, she's being difficult. sorry not sorry. ] Don't know. It was locked down and it's hard to say where it was. It rained a lot.

[bekommen]

[Drily:] Maybe you were in Seattle.

[64th]

[ whatever that means. she's quiet a moment. ] Well, wherever it was I'm here now and no one else from there is here.

[bekommen]

Yeah, well. [Nick too goes quiet for a moment, only her breathing audible.] That's probably better anyway, right? If the people you know aren't here, that means they're not stuck in this frozen shithole waiting to die.

[64th]

I wish I knew where they were. Could be some place better, could be some place worse.

[bekommen]

Anywhere's gotta be better than this.

[64th]

That's debatable.

[bekommen]

Hell, I'd take the shithole town I grew up in over freezing to death here, and I swore I'd never foot in that place again, once I left. At least there was electricity. And cigarettes.

[64th]

I wouldn't. I'm never going back home.

[bekommen]

Well, it's not my first choice, that's for damn sure. I'm just saying, compared to freezing to death in this shithole, I'd re-evaluate my options.

[64th]

I'm dead in my world so I don't have much of a choice.