thecapitol | A girl and her duck

Who: Pruna, a duck and you
What: Pruna wakes up, also she has a pet duck now. Because Effie thought that would be a good idea
Where: All around the tribute tower
When: Mid week 5
Warnings: Mentions of arena stuff, swearing, probably casual mostly unintentional animal cruelty

When Pruna woke up she was greeted by one of the cheerful minders. It was enough to make Pruna scowl but the man told her she had done well and he had been impressed by her quick successions of kills. So she decided he wasn't as stupid as he first appeared. He had given her a bag, and told her it was a present from the Capitol. Getting presents was still a strange thing and Pruna looked inside excitedly and grinned at what she found.

Later she could be found in the tribute lounge, wearing a pale blue T-shirt that read: I will be taking your motherf***ing eyes!, and a pendant that looked like an ice cream cone with a dagger stuck out of it. There had been some of the weird smelling stuff in a bottle as well, the minder had told her it was a smell that was named after her. Pruna didn't quite get it, it all smelled weird to her.

There was a figure as well, one that looked like her. She had that with her now, as well as a pair of weird eye looker out of things (the minder had called it a viewer) that showed pictures of her in the arena when you pressed a button, her kills, her deaths, some of her more heroic moments. She had liked that too.

There was also a phrase book titled Speak like Pruna and she was reading that now, reading it to the duck that was sat next to her. Effie had made good on her promise and after the gift bag the minder had introduced her to her new pet.

"This do be being a stupid book, duck." She was telling it. "It do be getting everything wrong." She poked the duck, which made a sound. At least it seemed a little bit more intelligent than tribbles. "What do ducks be eating? Worms right, we should be going and finding some."

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He glanced over to the screen and frowned. He hadn't followed that story - his attention almost entirely on Wyatt.

"Why does she wish to kill Mindy?" He asked, looking back at Pruna.

"Because Mindy did be killing me." Pruna explained, "And Sandy do be thinking it do be being a betrayal but we did no never really be being proper allies, we did no be saying it."

She shrugged.

"Ah," Maximus said, understanding instantly. He let out a heavy breath.

"It is natural for her to wish to avenge you," He said solemnly. "Especially against someone she once considered a friend. Does she know that you are safely back here?"

"No." Pruna shooked, "She do no be knowing, I do no be knowing how to be telling her."

It was natural she would try and get revenge, and Pruna was glad she was being strong at least.

"The easiest way is to have a sponsor pay for you to send a message," He said.

"That is how I send messages to Wyatt - there are many who are willing to help."

Pruna grinned and nodded, "I do be having money I can be doing that." She could send a message and tell Sandy to use her brain. Because she didn't seem to be doing so at the moment.

He smiled back at her and leaned over to ruffle her hair.

"There, no need to even involve anyone else. I'm sure she would be comforted to hear from you."

Pruna grinned and nodded thinking about that, "How can I be doing it?" She asked, it wasn't like there was some messenger service for the Arena, and no one had ever sent her a letter before, just notes that came with food.

Carefully, he explained the procedure for buying and sending gifts from the capitol, how she would have to go through one of Sandy's mentors, and how she could send a note with it. Once he finished, he smiled.

It would just be a note, of course, but a handwritten one could go a long way.

"Understand?"

"I do be understanding." She grinned, glad she could do something to help Sandy even though she was back here now.

She repeated the instructions in her head so she would remember them. She didn't want to forget and not know what to do.

"Do you be sending Wyatt letters then?"

He nodded.

"As often as I can manage them. Which, I fear, is not often enough." He offered her a small smile. "But a few words can go a long way, when one is far afield. It was the same in Rome, at war, though it was often difficult to receive messages at the front."

Pruna nodded, "It would be being difficult if there did be being lots of fighting." Proper fighting not arena fighting. Proper fighting with soldiers, where no one came back. Pruna had never been in a proper war.

"It would be being good if we could be sending messages back to our worlds..."

He smiled sadly at her. "Indeed it would, little guardian," He murmured, though he knew there wasn't a single soul he would message. That life was gone. Ashes and dust.

"Who would you sent a letter to?"

"My sister." She told him with a small smile, "She probably do be being really angry that I did be going away, I do no be wanting her to be thinking I did be running away and leaving here."

"I am sure she must be worried, but if she knows you, then she knows you will be alright." He smiled, sadly.

"How old is she?"

"She do be being the same age as me." She told him and nodded, "She will be knowing, but she might still be being mad if she did be thinking I did be leaving her."

"The same age?" Maximus asked, surprised. "Are you twins, then?"

Twins had a very special significance, in Rome, and he couldn't help but think of it.

Pruna frowned, "I do no be knowing, I do no be knowing what twins do be being." She tried to think back to think if the word had been used about her and her sister before, but she couldn't remember hearing it.

"Twins happen when a mother carries two children inside of her," Maximus explained easily.

"When two siblings are born within moments of each other. Sometimes they even look remarkably like each other."

Two children inside of her? Pruna wrinkled her nose, one had sounded painful enough. But the second thing he said made her blink and nod. "Yes, she do be looking just like me. Exactly the same."

She thought about it a bit more and then nodded, "We do be being twins then I do be guessing."

Maximus smiled warmly. "Then you are very blessed," He said gently. "Twins were the founders of Rome, and their births are very sacred."

"Do Rome be being where you do be being from?" She asked, mulling over what he had said in her head. Twins were blessed, she liked the idea of that.

"Rome was the empire I fought for," He said with a nod. "But I did not see the great city for years, and years - not until just before I was brought here. I was born in the province of Hispania."

A girl and her duck

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