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Appointment Post

This post here is for personal conversations which should happen but one or both of us doesn't want to put up a new post/log and thus we will just thread it out here. This can be used to thread with Saleh anytime and anywhere. This can either be in person (with action), or via the journal's call feature (voice and/or written).

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[It's become something of a regular thing for them. The girl coming over every now and then for cooking lessons, sometimes staying for meals, sometimes not. She's found it fun, reminiscent of when she first taught Prim how to cook all those years ago. Sometimes, their mother could be counted on to actually prepare a meal. Most of the time though? It had been them. Only them.

Today is no different from the other days they've met. The kitchen has food spread out on the table - a mix of root vegetables, cabbage, and a skinned rabbit Katniss had killed earlier in the day. She's ready to start the stew whenever Eleanor arrives.

Hopefully, she'll be okay with the butchering of the animal Katniss still needs to do.]

[Eleanor rather enjoyed cooking, even if she wasn't exactly very good at it. Years of living on processed food and fish and whatever they could scrounge from the bottom of the sea had left her with something of an undeveloped palette. But she was getting better!]

[She knocks before she comes inside, and offers Katniss a somewhat tentative smile as she looks around.]

Hello Katniss. I hope I'm not late.

[She had heard the knock on the door, the sound traveling through the living room to where she stood by the small table in the kitchen. She turns her head quickly, relaxing when she recognizes Eleanor's thin stature enter the room. But then again, someone out to harm her wouldn't knock. And within the kitchen, she wasn't exactly defenseless.

Life had been too peaceful lately, too easy. It only seemed like a matter of time before the odds turned away from her favor. Before life became bleak again.]

You're not late. [She holds up the skinned rabbit and offers a tentative smile of her own.] Have you ever had rabbit?

[Eleanor takes a half-step back in surprise at the...skinned...bunny corpse, her dark eyes quite wide.]

I...ah.

[A breath.]

I've only ever even seen a bun...rabbit once before. And it was alive. And...fluffy.

[Food has to come from somewhere. Meat especially. She never really understood people who were squeamish about meat. Even Prim, for all she can be so peaceful and tenderhearted, understands where the meat she eats come from.

But she looks a little embarrassed by the girl's reaction. Maybe she should have butchered the animal already. At least the head was already off.]

It tastes good.

I'm sure.

[She hesitates again before approaching tentatively, eying the skinned animal.]

Sorry, I...we didn't have animals in Rapture. Well, besides Fish. There had been cats when I was small but. [A beat.] I'm still adjusting to all of this.

[Katniss grimaces and carefully places the rabbit back on the table. She probably should have butchered it before Eleanor came over. Made the animal unrecognizable as anything but meat. It might have been easier for the girl that way.]

Oh. [She pauses and shrugs sheepishly.] If you want, you could come back when it's butchered.

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[Eleanor almost takes her up on that before she shakes her head.]

No, that's...that's fine. I have to get over this eventually, I imagine.

[And...she walks over. Tentatively. And eyes the poor dead animal.]

Meat comes packaged in the store. [She doesn't really like buying that meat even if she has on occasion. Back home in District 12, meat always came from either the butcher shop or the woods. It still amazes her how plentiful the shelves in the market here always seem to be.

They lack for practically nothing. Maybe it's better this way. Keep the people occupied with breads and circuses. It had worked for the Capitol for nearly 75 years.] You can get yours there.

Oh. [Well that made sense. And explained where Doctor Tenenbaum had gotten it.]

Ah... I'll still stay. [She did so want to impress Katniss, for some reason.]

[Her lips flickered into a brief grin. She could respect that sort of bravery in a person. The carcass clearly made the girl uncomfortable. And yet, she doesn't accept the out that Katniss offers. Most people would. People like Effie.

That sort of quality can be far too rare. No wonder Panem ended up like it did.

She nods in the direction of the vegetables on the table, picking up her knife and rabbit and moving closer to the sink.]

You can cut the vegetables.

Right.

[Eleanor picks up a knife as well and moves to the vegetables. This part she has actually gotten pretty good at, apparently any task that involves breaking or cutting something she can manage well enough. At least until-]

Ow!

[Aaaand now there is blood on the cutting board and she is sucking on one of her fingers. Whoops.]

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