Calm Like a Bomb

[hit_girl_mindy]

WHO| Mindy, Open
WHAT| General hope for CR interaction, basically
WHERE| I'm going to have her in the training center/tribute tower
WHEN| This week
WARNINGS| Swearing and likely dialogue of the adult situations. Mindy just rolls like that.

1. The training room was becoming her home away from home.

Which, honestly, it HAD to be. Home was where dad trained her, home was making herself ready, finding the tired, aching in her bones welcome after the drudgery of the games forcing her to be alert almost constantly. That had happened too soon after her attempt to conform to real life. Even in her "roll with it" personality demanded the switch, it still left her in a hard place, untrained for fucking wilderness and traps.

She knew better now. She'd eaten more, even allowed herself to get dolled up every so often (two random days) so she could regain a little bit of herself. It just helped her regain a foothold back to what she did best: training her body to shatter some bones. A run n the gymnasium cleared her head. A few choice weapons of the stabbing variety kept her senses sharp. A rundown on long ranged weapons told her how much more she had to go. Everything she did, she recorded on a notepad for herself.

There was no more dad here to keep tabs on her: kill or be killed. Mindy wasn't going to go into the latter category easily.

Right at the moment, she was suspended from a rope, her eyes closed. One of the exercises she had set for herself was sensing everything around her. She had lost the previous games because she blundered into a set trap. That had been reckless, and made her feel even dumber for falling for it. She'd make sure that didn't happen again. This meant sensing everything around her, disciplining her body in the case someone or something had to be detected. This, she knew, would be harder to do suspended like this.


2. It was hard to get to sleep sometimes. Between nightmares of her father and her leg getting torn up, her head was becoming a space of unpleasant imagery and that was not something she needed. She was in a faux lap of luxury suite, she didn't need her mind reminding her how desperate everything was: all of this was wrong. So she regressed back to her over sized shirt and walked out of her suite, trying to gather her thoughts.

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[hit_girl_mindy]

She grinned. "Good. Because you're totally the kind of girl that would stab someone in their sleep. At least you're smart too. I saw tat killer instinct that day in Cornecopia."

[knifewithnoname]

Pruna just shrugged with a small smile, of course she would stab someone in their sleep, easier than stabbing them awake. Got the job done quicker.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Yeah, she could see Pruna doing that. Mindy made a mental note to sleep in the trees when she was in the Arenas again.

"Too bad he took your eye. Did you at least get a little head start?"

[knifewithnoname]

"I did be getting some stuff." She wrinkled her nose, "But he do be being a mentor so unless they do be being in the arena again I can no be getting him back."

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Believe me, I know all about that," Mindy said, grimacing. "The person that got me is a mentor too. now if only she would stop appearing wherever I am."

[knifewithnoname]

Pruna tilted her head, "Who did it be being?" She leaned forward, wondering. She wasn't supposed to start any fights, but she had never gotten caught in her life, there had to be some way for her to get rid of these people. Like the man who took her eye and whoever got Mindy.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Her name is Azula," Mindy said, gritting her teeth. "She's a mentor too, which means the only way I get revenge is if they force them into the arena again. So basically, there's really only one other way to get revenge."

[knifewithnoname]

"I can be thinking of several ways." She shrugged, "You do just be having to be being clever."

[hit_girl_mindy]

She looked at Pruna, obviously intrigued. "Do you? What would YOU do?"

[knifewithnoname]

Pruna smirked at her, "You would want to be knowing." She shrugged, "But there do be being cameras everywhere."

[hit_girl_mindy]

Mindy grinned. "Hey, all that means is that we gotta find a way to be smart about what we say. I've already been thinking about that. Once I find out how, I'll let you know. Hell, there's gotta be a place small little girls like us can talk innocently, right?"

Wink wink.

[knifewithnoname]

"You do be letting me know." She grinned, "I will be looking as well." Thinking of something clever. Then again she had thought Sandy's idea of using the showers and the steam to hide was a good one, but they had ended up in cuffs anyways.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"I will," she said. "There's still a bunch of shit I have to figure out about this place. Don't like the idea of constantly being bugged when I'm having a simple conversation. Takes all of the fun out of living."

[knifewithnoname]

"You do just be having to be being more careful." She told her, "And be getting more information, it do be being important."

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Oh trust me, I am definitely doing that. Usually I'm blowing things up by now. This is actually playing by the book."

[knifewithnoname]

Pruna smiled at her, deciding she definitely liked her.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Yeah, there was a lot she was going to have to find out. Mindy was not a girl for sitting on sidelines waiting for something to happen without doing something herself.

"And what about you? Gonna do your best to help your girlfriend?"

[knifewithnoname]

"We do be going to be winning." She said casually, "And then we will be finding a way to be going home." It would happen, though it would take a lot of hard work and planning.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"That' a pretty tall order," Mindy said. "Especially with all the people tat failed. Gonna probably need help."

[knifewithnoname]

"I will no be failing." But she might need help. She was still learning who to trust.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Yeah well, I'm looking forward to not failing myself. But I'm gonna have to see who I can collaborate with. The only thing that really leaves is...the games."

[knifewithnoname]

"Well I do be wishing you luck." She wrinkled her nose, "Be working hard."

[hit_girl_mindy]

"You know I will," Mindy replied, winking. "I don't disappoint!"

[knifewithnoname]

Pruna just grinned and looked around, so she could sneak back to her room.