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[thechoiceisyours]

[So, it's been about a day. It felt like a lot longer, especially during the night, and by now he's not just scared but incredibly bored. Sleeping isn't really a thing that's an option for lots of reasons, so he's had a lot of time to both think and reread a lot of conversations on the network; there's something that stood out to him in that time, and it lead to this post.]

Okay, so a lot of people are here without any of their friends from home, and this whole thing going on is a pretty bad time to be on your own.

[He can't imagine what it would be like being in this situation while thinking there's no one looking for and caring about you specifically. It isn't just the actual rescue that's the issue, though--especially since who gets found when is pretty unpredictable--it's that there might be people that don't have anyone to reach out to. There might be people who are totally alone in this.

So I was thinking that anyone who doesn't have anyone to talk to can just join in conversation here? People who do already have friends to talk to can too. Meeting new people is at least distracting even if everyone's probably not feeling all that friendly.

I guess just talk about whatever. What's it like back in whatever world you're from, any cool skills (if they involve getting out of being buried that's a plus,) anyone in college before they ended up here? Whatever topic is going to be better than nothing.

I mean I dunno about you guys but I definitely don't have anything better to be doing.

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[64th]

[ it does suck, to put it mildly ]

Yeah I guess you could call it that. Snow has been president since before I was born.

The last place I was, before this, I figured out my time was more than a few years ahead of most people. Districts have stuff similar to here, though. Except for the weird alien part. :)

[thechoiceisyours]

What do you mean by the last place before this?

[If she figured out there's a technology difference, then was she not in her world before she came here?]

[64th]

It was a weird place like this. Lots of other people from different places. It was a hotel. I thought I was being punished by my government. Now that I'm here I don't know.

[thechoiceisyours]

That's really weird.

[This is the first time he's heard about someone being from another place besides their home when they came here.]

But yeah, I think there's gotta be another reason than that. Which is a good thing, right?

[64th]

It was.

[ they might have different definitions of "good." at least if this was a punishment she'd know why. mostly, anyway. ]

We're all incredibly unlucky? Or I'm dying and imagining all this? Or you're dead and I'm imaginary.

[thechoiceisyours]

I think incredibly unlucky sounds about right, yeah.

I guess being dead's a possibility too but last I knew I was alive.

[And he's still not sure about believing in any sort of afterlife. He definitely didn't before, but finding out things like wendigo spirits exist kind of threw everything he knew for a loop.]

[64th]

I died at home. I don't feel dead now, just unlucky.

Maybe a little lucky since I'm not dead anymore.

[ if this seems confusing, it's because it is. ]

[thechoiceisyours]

[He's talking to Johanna at the same time as he's texting with Cashmere, so that first comment isn't quite as jarring as it could be.]

Yeah. Johanna told me.

[He has no idea what to say, though. Talking to someone who's died shouldn't be a thing that happens, especially not when they know they died rather than just being from a point in time before it happened.

So he just goes with the usual response to a something terrible happening to someone, and hopes it's the right one.]

I'm sorry.

Yeah, I'd guess it's lucky not to be dead if you're supposed to be, but unlucky to end up in that situation in the first place?

[It's confusing but makes sense at the same time. He should've been dead too--had been expecting everything to just go black and never wake up--but the situation had been a little different than he'd thought and he survived. So although it's not exactly the same as actually dying, he can sort of understand the conflicting feelings.]

[64th]

[ oh, great. she's sure Johanna couldn't wait to share that. ]

I think that's her favorite thing about me. I was going to die anyway. She just sped up the process.

[ she'd wanted to die. Johanna did her a favor even if she'd never admit it. ]

This place is just icing on the cake. Hope you had better luck before you woke up here.

[thechoiceisyours]

She said something about a fight to the death?

[Which sounds awful, but he's also really curious about the whole situation; there's obviously a lot he's missing about this. He doesn't want to press too much though, if she doesn't want to talk about it.]

Thanks. I wasn't dead, so I guess by default that means I had better luck.

[In fact he had to have had pretty good luck--in some regards, anyway--to have survived at all. So many things could have gone wrong, and so many did, that it's incredible sometimes to think he actually made it out.]

[64th]

The Hunger Games. Two people from every district, one winner. Winner gets fame and fortune. Usually it's kids but it was a special year. All previous winners.

[ she doesn't mind talking about it. the Games were her life for a long time. ]

Johanna's friend killed my brother. Johanna killed me before I could do anything about it. No hard feelings.

ok maybe a few hard feelings. Alive isn't always lucky anywayy

[thechoiceisyours]

[That is... Wow. He doesn't know what to say to that, because that's really horrible, and he almost regrets asking.]

Geez, that's super fucked up. I'm really sorry.

[That that happened to all of them. It explains a lot about Johanna too.]

[64th]

It's

[ not okay. and she feels a little bad telling him because she knows it's fucking awful to learn about. she really should warn people. ]

yea it's pretty fucked up. I'm used to it. If you've ever got questions, ask away.