Who| Roland and Venus, Roland and you?
What| Roland delivers a message, then wanders around
Where| District 5 common room and the city in general
When| soon after the d13 post, although feel free to make a prompt at any point between that and the arena if later works better
Warnings/Notes| none yet

( closed to Venus )
 
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Of course, that conversation leads him to thoughts of Susannah. Whether his message will get to her, wherever she is in district 13. Wherever she might be in district 13, because he knows as well as anyone here that there can be no guarantees. He tilts his head back to study the tops of the tall, beautiful buildings littering this place, and thinks of his first clear, safe memory of her. Remembers kneeling on the plush carpeting that covers a good deal of the tribute's tower. Remembers Susannah's arms tight around him, her voice warm and low in his ear.

He passes some distance in this way, only paying so much attention to the crowds as deeply ingrained training demands. Which means he will react to quick movement, grab the wrists of pickpockets and instinctively move to catch anything that might be thrown at or falling near him, but he will not quite realize where he is going, or pay attention to anyone's face.

Panem being itself, of course, there is only so long he will go without being jarred to wakefulness. This time, it's by a scream. It came from the building next to him, which he realizes is shaking with with a low, deep thumping that he supposes is probably music. The same voice screams again, and he pauses with the two metal fingers of his right hand hooked around the building's doorframe. There's a tone to that voice he hadn't picked up the first time - ecstasy, rather than pain. Nothing he hasn't heard before, walking the Capitol's streets. Clear as it is that nothing unusual is going on in there, he still hesitates, because going in there to check would at least give him something to think about for a few minutes.