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[crazylikeavulp.insanejournal.com]

Who: Hydracula & visitors
Where: Hydracula
When: Day 178, night
What: HYDRACULA!!!

[THINGS AND OCCURRENCES OF SUPERB HYDRACULAN NATURE!! Also Lucky finally wandering home, super spacing out JUST LIKE A MIRROR CLONE!!1 or you know just like normal right now]

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[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

... Hollow?

[ambibalance.insanejournal.com]

Fang. [acknowledging gesture with her head]

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

I'd ask if you're all right...

...

Actually I'll ask it anyway.

[ambibalance.insanejournal.com]

I've been better.

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

[Sets a pot down... it is oddly enough, full of dirt.]

Do you want to come in?

[ambibalance.insanejournal.com]

If you don't mind.

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

[Shakes his head and starts towards the ladder himself.]

[ambibalance.insanejournal.com]

[we going in /o/]

Are you all okay?

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

[Setting down the pot again by a closed door.]

Ah... That's a complicated question...

[ambibalance.insanejournal.com]

How so?

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

In the "We're physically fine at this very moment but no one expects it to last long at all," way.

...

I take it the game was a bad one.

[ambibalance.insanejournal.com]

Haah. [humourlessly]


I think it was one of the worst ones I've had in a while. Too many people died.

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

...

We didn't know, if that's...

[Shakes his head.]

That Judge has mentioned she wouldn't be kind to us, and we hadn't had time to plan. That was all.

[ambibalance.insanejournal.com]

She threatened you? Why?

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

[Evaaaaaaaaades] Because we drew the King's attention to her.

Before you say it was stupid, we had our reasons, and we'll deal with the consequences. We just were off guard then.

[ambibalance.insanejournal.com]

Planning against judges isn't easy.

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

Nearly impossible without another's help.

But... the alternative is doing nothing and just waiting.

[ambibalance.insanejournal.com]

You might get killed either way. [not accusatory, just stating the facts]

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

It's a matter of when, really.

[It's a calm statement, still smiling.]

[ambibalance.insanejournal.com]

...


[a loooong pause, like she's deliberating something]


She'll notice if you keep not showing up at her games.

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

... She noticed there. We only managed to escape because of the other Judge.

... [Lets out an even breath]

I wont be going anymore to any Game... But Sparta's decided to play in the next one no matter what.

[ambibalance.insanejournal.com]

What about the rest of Hydra?

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

Those who can, will.

... What happens in there, in the future, isn't any true reflection of how Hydra feels about Delphinus... or any team.

It's worth saying now as a warning, rather than as an apology later.

[ambibalance.insanejournal.com]

[shakes her head]

Our teams are both smarter than that. Games, and what happens out of them are two very different things.

[be_my_chum.insanejournal.com]

[Nods]

Will you guys need any supplies? We should still have some reeds and berries that are good, I think.