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[knifewithnoname]

Who| Pruna and you!
What| Pruna is back in the capitol, cheers for her favourite tributes and goes on a research mission.
Where| District 12 suites, common room, library and out and about around the city.
When| In the days following Pruna's (as of yet unwritten) death.
Notes| Standard fare, might be some language. Oh and very awkward discussions about where babies come from for anyone tagging into part 3

[District 12 suites] This time Pruna was expecting to wake up, so she wasn't confused and she didn't struggle. She just sat still and did as she was told as the checked her over and even remembered to say thank you when they let her go.

Effie would have been proud. Pruna wasn't pleased that she had died, but if her count was correct she had lasted longer than last time, it had been a stupid mistake that had killed her though. And she had only killed two people again.

Once she got back to her room she pulled on what had became her favourite dress, a simple yellow cotton one with white frills on the sleeves and orange flowers near the bottom. Then she went to the lounge, to see who was there, before heading over to Sandy's room and knocked on the door. "Sandy do you be being in there?"

[Common room] Later that day Pruna headed down to the common room, her cuff was still round her wrist but she ignored it and the stares she got. She found a seat near a TV and watched as they went through the remaining tributes.

Howard was still alive, Pruna grinned, he was doing well and even though it was stupid that she hadn't outlived him. If she wanted anyone to win it would be Howard. Well maybe Shepard too even if Pruna didn't really trust her. She was alive too, so was that man she had stolen off; annoyingly.

The woman that hurt Sandy as well, she was still alive. Pruna bared her teeth. She should have killed her too. She would kill her. She was also glad to see the Grand Highblood was still alive, and Tim. They might win too.

The man who helped her learn spears, Maximus was next on the list of those still alive and he had killed a few people, and apparently dating the man who had showed her carving. At least Pruna thought that was what the television was saying, and she watched the footage for tips, if she was to make everyone believe she was dating Sandy.

[Library and around town] The library was always a good place to start when you needed to know things. Sandy and Pruna had come a few times before this arena but today Pruna came alone. She smiled at the librarian, who was always nice to her despite her cuff. "I do be needing to be knowing where children do be coming from."

At the woman's blush and flustering Pruna frowned, not understanding. Maybe the librarian didn't know either.

"I did be thinking about it. And sometimes people do be being married and then they do be getting kids. But sometimes they do no be married and do still be getting kids. And then there do be being the kids like me who do no be having parents at all. So I did be thinking maybe parents do no actually be having anything to do with it. Because there do be being people who do be being married and no be having children and I did then be thinking it did be magic. But there do no be any magic here and still kids."

At that the librarian just looked shocked and disappeared, a moment later bringing back a book and telling her that the answer was in there. Pruna nodded and took the book out, going to sit on the edge of a fountain in the city and read it. It was a baby book, at least it seemed so to Pruna. Colourful pictures and not much writing at all, she did sometimes get the feeling the librarian thought she was stupid.

It showed a man and a woman smiling, and said that when they wanted children there was an egg, and a seed and it made a baby. There were some pictures of the baby turning from a dot to a baby and then the couple smiling with the baby in their arms. The woman also seemed to get very big and there was something called a hospital involved. Pruna sighed.

"This do be being stupid." She picked up the book and wandered a bit, seeing a woman with a pram and a second child walking beside her she followed stalking them for a while, as if this would solve her mystery.

It just opened more though, she had seen parents with their children in markets in Gauig before, but had never really paid attention. Hadn't thought them important. But she wrinkled her nose as she watched the mother and the children, she didn't seem angry at them, not even though the baby cried a lot.

She continued to follow them silently.

Comments

[knifewithnoname]

"It do be being a person who do be having powers, like the teleporting." She told him, "They do be being very important."

[gruesome]

He smiled, rearranging the shawl. "A Some is only very important when they're needed. And I've never been - our caves are safe and old and in a peaceful part of the mother. The rest of the time, it is the hunters I would say are important."

[knifewithnoname]

"Everyone do only be being important when they do be being needed." She pointed out, but it was sad that Some had never been needed. "Of course the hunters do be being important. Everyone do be getting hungry and they do be liking the one who do be bringing the food."

[gruesome]

"As they should. It's always the most dangerous role." And how very badly he'd wanted to be a hunter when he was her age. In years, at any rate. "It is good, though, that my tribe never needed a Some. That meant our caves never collapsed."

[knifewithnoname]

"Well that do be being good, I bet it would be being hard work to be making new caves." She said with a nod. "What other jobs do grue be having?"

[gruesome]

"Oh, we didn't make them." He held up his hands, the long fingers thin as sticks. "We are no diggers. The Earth makes them for us.

"There are few... jobs for grues. Hunters, Somes, story-tellers... healers, of course... Ice-breakers, but that is an icing job only, not the rest of the year."

[knifewithnoname]

"Oh so you would be having to be finding ones that did be already be being made..." That was even more difficult she thought.

"Story telling do be being a job?"

[gruesome]

"Yes! Like... ah, like teacher, among humans. Story-tellers keep our past for us, and the stories have all of the... the answers, if life brings a strange question."

[knifewithnoname]

Pruna nodded, she didn't really know of a job of being a teacher either. But she could see how it could be a job, more than storytelling anyways. "So they do be telling true stories like history and you do be learning from them."

[gruesome]

"Yes. History and the gods." Though Some felt less and less as if those were true stories, the longer he lived with the humans.

[knifewithnoname]

She nodded, "They do be being important things to be learning about." She thought the storytellers were very important, if that's what they taught people about.

[gruesome]

"I am making a... a storyteller's project, here in the Capitol..." If he ever got back into Mister Tims' basement, that was. "We call them Storywalks, and they are... well, a little like a picture book? But in sand and stones, on the floor. This one tells the story of the first Some. Would you like to see it, when it's done?"

[knifewithnoname]

Picture books were for babies, but a picture book made of sand and stones on the floor... that sounded interesting. She nodded, "I would be, do it be being an exciting story?"

[gruesome]

"It is an adventure story, about the days when the Earth was still vital and reshaping herself, and Noll and his little siblings have to go in search of the gods to rescue their family from the Light, and how Void gave him the name Some so that he could."

[knifewithnoname]

Her face lit up, that sounded like a very exciting story indeed. Rescuing their family from the light, meeting gods. "So he did be becoming a teleporter then to be saving his family?"