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Shell Bell doesn't get off the train immediately when they hit District Three. Tony has one last miserable speech to deliver, and the train will then stick around long enough for everything to be unloaded. Bell sits tight in Sherlock's compartment with the TV on, keeps her wits about her, and awaits cues from either Stark twin.
she_sells_seashells
Bell rolls over and looks at the ceiling. "If Lynnis and all the other Careers in line had defected, my main accomplishment would be the same as yours. As it is I have none. Are accomplishments relevant to what you're trying to get at or do you not know why you brought that up either?" Pause. "Let me know if I'm being intrusive. My curiosity sometimes puppets my mouth and my tact is narcoleptic."
sicaria
"You are being intrusive, but I don't mind that," she says.
"I don't like being the kind of person I am. You apparently do. I think that may be causing some of the confusion here."
"I don't like being the kind of person I am. You apparently do. I think that may be causing some of the confusion here."
sicaria
"Well, that is part of the problem," she says. "The consequences of not being this good at killing people would be worse."
sicaria
"The pool of people I am attracted to," she says, "is mostly people I think could beat me in a fight. Perhaps that is why it's so small."
she_sells_seashells
"That doesn't sound like many people, no," Bell says. "Is it any? That you've met?"
she_sells_seashells
"I'm surprised you've figured out what determines who makes it into the pool, then," Bell says. "How'd you do that?"
she_sells_seashells
"Did I guess one correctly? I saw her Games and she certainly killed people effectively but I don't know how you evaluate people's skills."
she_sells_seashells
Bell giggles for no good reason. "Is that the primary reason that you'd like to feel differently about being good at killing people?"
she_sells_seashells
"If it weren't, and there were something else too, what would it be?"
Pause. "Also, tangent, do you think we should tell Tony about the holiday darts? If only to warn him to flee the bar if he sees it with lacy pink and red decorations and that funny -" She forms her hands into the double-wave shape. "This thing?"
Pause. "Also, tangent, do you think we should tell Tony about the holiday darts? If only to warn him to flee the bar if he sees it with lacy pink and red decorations and that funny -" She forms her hands into the double-wave shape. "This thing?"
she_sells_seashells
"That sounds awkward. 'Hi, Tony, how are you doing with the generator and the gun collection, by the way I recently fell into drug-induced love with your sister and vice-versa because Fucking Milliways'."
she_sells_seashells
"Maybe it'll work better if you tell him. Do you have a way to tell him that's less awful than that?"