rutagraveolens | Melody 1 : Action/Voice [Backdated to the afternoon of Wednesday, 12/4]

[Action around the village]

[With the laws of the land already explained by Katniss and the stores in the village pointed out, Rue sets out to do a bit of exploring and gathering up items. Feeling a bad over borrowing some of Prim's clothes, Rue first heads to the clothing store.

The amount of clothes and the different styles are staggering to a girl used to wearing worn, drab hand-me-downs. She takes her time going through the store, feeling all the different textures, admiring the colors. That everything is free is astounding as well; as Rue puts her selected outfits into a bag, she'll look around warily before carefully leaving the store.

Her next stop is the grocery store and the experience is also as remarkable. The rows and rows of food, it's almost too much to take. A single shelf could last a family in District 11 the whole year. Rue takes her time, reverently going through each aisle. Most of the packaged foods in bright colorful boxes and containers are things she's never seen, though the pictures and some of the names are descriptive enough.

After stocking up on food, Rue takes a final trip to the weapon shop. There she'll take her times looking over small knives and any slings that might be around.]

[Action for House 34]

[Once Rue returns to the house, she dutifully puts all the food away in the kitchen. A few things - some candy, a box of cookies, fresh apples - will be placed on the counter with a note near by ("Thank you. -Rue). From there, Rue begins to explore the wonders of the house.

She's never been in a house so nice. The soft carpet, the drapes on the windows (the windows open and close too!), running water, electricity, Rue takes her time marveling over everything. She'll open every door to peek in side. If it looks like a bedroom, she'll quickly close the door. Everything else is fair game for the curious girl.]

[Voice - early evening]

[The journal is a strange, strange thing. A book that can be written into to communicate with others, it's remarkable. Rue spends some time flipping through the pages and trying to familiarize herself with everything before making her first recording.]

Um, hello? I hope this is recording. To anyone that can hear me, my name is Rue! I just arrived. I'm from Panem, District 11. Katniss says I was here before, though I don't remember any of it, so I'm sorry if we've met before and I don't remember you!

[A brief pause as she tries to figure out what to say.]

Um... what's your favorite thing? It doesn't have to be something here, it can be anything you really like. I like music a lot, singing especially. Does anyone else like music?

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I think if anything it was in passing, maybe when she told me about the Games. It's been awhile for me, since I've been here, but I knew her my first go around which was a little over a year ago on my end. I'm kind of like you - left and then came back again. Except I remember.

Katniss told you about the games? [The rest is interesting too, but it's the games she focuses on.]

She's mentioned it. I don't really press her about it since she doesn't seem to like talking about it, which I can understand.

They're not very nice at all.

[And that's the most Rue wants to talk about the Games too. She quickly changes to a new topic.]

What's it like, leaving here but coming back?

Weird. I could remember things, and I tried to find this place again, but life sort of... swept me up. It fades, fast. And then you get thrown back in here and it's like getting dunked in a cold pool.

Do you like it here? Did you want to come back?

It's not that I don't like it here. I mean, it has it's good qualities, I guess - I've gotten to know some very good people. But... no, I can't say I wanted to. If I did, it was so I could rescue everyone here, with my ship, take you all home. But I didn't want to live here again.

Oh. I'm sorry.

[A beat.]

Do you like sailing? [Because ships.]

Ah, haha, when I say "ship" I don't mean water - I mean space. I captain a space ship.

What's a space ship?

Well, it's like a regular ship, except this ship can travel through outer space, up amongst the stars and between planets.

People can travel among the stars?

Well, on my world - or my time, I'm not sure which one is more apt here - we can. I'm part of a group called Star Fleet, which operates ships that travel between planets and other solar systems.

[For a girl who has only seen the world outside of District 11 once, for who even the ocean is something remarkable and amazing, trying to think of life among the stars is almost impossible.

Like many others, she'd looked up at the night sky and marveled over the stars. The departed watching over everyone was the common story for what they were.]

What are planets and solar systems? And what are stars like up close? Are they really people that'd died guiding from above?

Well, a planet is like what we're on now. It's usually a spherical mass in space and some support life and others don't. Solar systems are a group of planets orbiting a star - like the sun.

And stars are giant balls of burning gas in the sky - that's how they give off light that we can see, though they're very far away. But maybe some of them are people guiding us - they're just hiding amongst the real stars.

[Planets. Like all the other worlds people come from. Solar systems are groups of worlds around a sun. Stars are balls of burning gas, like lamps.]

Is it beautiful up there?

It's the most beautiful thing you'll ever see, in my opinion anyways. There are just things in space you won't see anywhere else.

Like what sort of things?

Well, you know how the sky has clouds? Think like that, but bigger - much, much bigger out in space. Or giant rings made of ice and rock circling planets.

Oh, that sounds so beautiful! I wish I could see them.

Well, maybe I can take you to the library sometime. I'm sure they have some books on space, which might have some photos you can look at.

I'd like that.

Have you been to other worlds like this one?

Like Luceti? No, but I have been to other worlds. They're all different, which is what makes them all so interesting.

What's the most interesting one you've been to?

Oh, that's kind of a big question. You'll have to give me a minute here!

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