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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Like...police officers?

What are police officers?

They...maintain law and order? In Republic City they were mostly earth benders.

Oh, that's what Peacekeepers did. [A pause.] What are earth benders?

Oh right. Ah...they can move earth and rock with martial arts. It's like a...magic power.

[It was the easiest way to describe it.]

There are two of them here. Both around your age, actually.

What's magic? [Sorry, Asami, Rue's full of questions in a world full of new things. Though she smiles knowing there are other people her age around.]

[The older girl just blinks at that, and then laughs softly.] Really? Magic is how I usually get out of explaining things I barely understand.

[She pauses, her head tilting to the side and her gaze distant as she tries to think of the right words.]

Magic is like...doing something that's supposed to be impossible. Throwing fire from your hand, or...flying.

Doing something that's supposed to be impossible... [Rue quietly repeats the words back as she thinks on it. Throwing fire and flying certainly sound impossible.]

But people can do that here? Can you?

No, I'm just normal. [She smiles.] Not that it holds me back. But there are many people here with powers.

I'm normal too, but I'm not going to let that hold me back too! [Rue says with newfound resolve. Even if there were people with magic and powers, she had to protect Katniss and Prim. She would protect Katniss and Rue.]

Are there hand crossbows here or do you have to make one?

Good for you. [Asami said, and she meant it.] Don't need powers to win a fight, right?

[She shook her head at that.]

Not at the moment, but I'm sure I could make a few.

You just need to be smart! And fast! ['I'm very hard to catch. And if they can't catch me, they can't kill me. So don't count me out.' It was the same thing here.]

How long will it take?

Those do help. And I was lucky, my father had me trained to fight from when I was very young.

[She looks around at the weapons, considering.]

A few days?

[Someone trained to fight since they were young, just like a Career.]

Is there a lot of fighting in your world?

There is...enough.

My dad wanted to be sure that I could protect myself from it.

He must be a good father. For wanting to protect you. To make sure you could protect yourself.

[Asami looks distant for a moment.]

Yeah. He was. Most of the time.

[Most of the time. Rue's quick enough to know someone who is nice most of the time isn't nice all of the time. She quickly changes the subject.]

A few days is fine. You must be good at making weapons.

I'm actually pretty new at it. Well, weapons like crossbows. I've always been good at making things, though. And weapons are just another kind of thing.

When you come back to get it, you can see my failed first attempts before I get it right.

[She grins.]

[Rue smiles back.]

What kind of things do you usually make?

Little machines. Radios, toy cars, tiny versions of whatever my father is working on.

[She reaches onto her belt and unhooks her shock-gloves, one made at home and the other here.]

Things like this.

[Rue takes the gloves and slowly turns it around in her hands.]

What does it do?

They're weapons.

[She tugs one on and flexes her fingers, and electricity arcs from one tip to the next.]

If I hit someone with it, it knocks them unconscious. Temporarily.

[Rue gives a little jump at the arc of electricity, but smiles.]

Oh, that's a very good weapon!

I think so too. My father created them for...well, it doesn't matter. But I like them. Dangerous and effective but non-lethal.

[She pulls it off and clips it back to her belt.]

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