I've Got the Darkness, Baby [Open]

[vissernone]

Who| Eva, open
What| The 9th District Mentor hits the town.
Where| Throughout the Capitol
When| After the most recent death announcements
Warnings| Baron Bartlett in one of the subthreads, and everything he entails.

Only one Tribute down from her District: the blonde man, she hasn't met him yet. Some Mentors would take this as a positive sign, but Eva finds it hard to feel very enthused by this. At the very best, she's still going to lose two more before this awful Arena's over.

She'd like to throttle whomever decided that a giant ice rink was a good idea. Back in her day, they were in a canyon. The resources were, of course, at the bottom, which only encouraged the people who took higher ground - like her - to pick people off faster. An entertainingly bloody bonanza of falling bodies and flying arrows, and most importantly, it was quick.

To get away from the images of people huddled up in indistinguishable, shivering balls, Eva goes out for the evening. If anyone asks, she'll claim boredom with the proceedings. She visits a the Training Center, then a restaurant and the performing arts district. All the while she taps her lower lip thoughtfully, as if considering something complex and far-off that requires some metronomic habit to keep straight.

[OOC: Come meet her at one of the subthreads below or just run into her in the street.]

Comments

Re: Training Center

[pursuitofcappiness]

"They put you in the games because of your son?" He asks. "If you don't mind me asking, what happened to him?" She seems to talk about him with anger, or frustration, but no sadness, so he takes that as a good sign that he, at least, isn't dead.

Re: Training Center

[vissernone]

"Oh, no, I was in the arena when he was an infant. Young mother, honestly. I'm not ashamed." There's something detached in her voice, though she stares Steve in the eyes. "He's gone now. He was stupid enough to challenge the system and they took him away, and put me through all sorts of hell in his absence. If I wanted a family, I got a rebel instead. Lucky me."

Re: Training Center

[pursuitofcappiness]

He frowns, because freedom is a basic right and this is all sorts of bullshit. She should be punished for his "crimes" and he shouldn't be punished for not wanting people to aimlessly kill each other. "I'm sorry, and I... I appreciate your help," he says, because it's hard being wronged and wanting to teach people so they don't meet the same fate.

Re: Training Center

[vissernone]

Eva shrugs. "It's in the past now. Anyway. Let my misfortune serve as a warning to you." She mouths 'watch your back' and flicks her eye to the corner of the room.

Re: Training Center

[pursuitofcappiness]

Very carefully and slowly, he backs away to go get them some refreshments so he can see who exactly he's supposed to look out for, and of course, they definitely need a refill on those drinks.

Re: Training Center

[vissernone]

There's nothing, at least, nothing evident. But Eva wants to let her Tributes know that there's always the chance they're being watched. She can express displeasure, frustration - but not a shred of resistance. That would get her killed, or worse, get her Tributes killed as punishment for her own impudence.

So she takes another drink and thanks him for it. "So, Steve, tell me about yourself, aside from your upstanding moral values."

Re: Training Center

[pursuitofcappiness]

"I'm uh," okay, that one shouldn't catch him off-guard but it does. "I used to be an artist." He smiles, because apparently the soldier part is obvious, so maybe he can go for something a little... less so.