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Edarial is nine, and he's avoiding his mother again.
Exploring the palace gets old after a while, but the library's even worse, and he suspects that if he spent any more time in his room, he'd scream. So, exploring the palace it is. Berathyme's with him, anyway, so the palace won't be so boring. She tends to make observations he didn't notice himself, and that's always interesting, if not always useful. Corridor, corridor, guest rooms, oh yes that is the closet with all of the uncomfortably looking coats, he'd forgotten about that one. Berathyme observes that they've been used relatively recently, some poor souls must have suffered - and then he opens a door and there's something he doesn't recognize.
He stares at the bar in confusion, consults briefly with Berathyme, and then wanders in.
What exactly is going on here?
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Berathyme starts laughing, soft and low.
"I like you," declares Edarial. "If I get omnipotence, you can have some too."
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"What are the Hunger Games? And - the bad mutts, what are they, and why is the president bad?" wonders Edarial.
(Berathyme is still laughing.)
(Berathyme is still laughing.)
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"The Hunger Games are when they get two dozen teenagers to go on TV and die until there's only one left and that one wins, and the mutts are like the tracker jackers and squids and stuff, and the president could stop the Hunger Games and the mutts and all the other bad stuff but he won't."
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"That," says Edarial, "is not a good game."
(And Berathyme has stopped laughing.)
she_sells_seashells
"Yeah. I won't have to play because I live in a Career district so somebody who's been training to do it will go for me even if I get picked but it's still not good and if I was omnipotent I would make it stop."
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"I'm glad, that should stop. Why does that exist?"
"There are many things in the world that should stop. And yet, they exist anyway," observes Berathyme.
"Those should stop too."
"There are many things in the world that should stop. And yet, they exist anyway," observes Berathyme.
"Those should stop too."
she_sells_seashells
"It's to punish the Districts for trying to rebel against the Capitol."
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"That doesn't make sense. Did the teenagers have anything to do with the rebellion?"
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"Why don't they, has anyone told them that doesn't make any sense?"
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That is his cue for horrified staring.
"But you'd be - that doesn't, that's not what you - are they just set upon not making sense?!"
"But you'd be - that doesn't, that's not what you - are they just set upon not making sense?!"
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"Sorry," winces Edarial. "It's not your fault. I'm just. That is wrong and it needs to stop."
she_sells_seashells
"That's why I stay here as long as I can, whenever I get a door, in case someone can give me magic to take home."
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"... How often do doors show up, do your parents miss you while you're gone?"
she_sells_seashells
"Oh, while you're in here nothing happens where you came from until you go back. That's not the problem, the problem is I run out of shells to buy food with and get hungry and have to go home. I get doors once or twice a year, ish, some people get more."
she_sells_seashells
"I do. You don't have to, but I don't have any normal money, and some places, shells are money. I have shells, so that's what I use. Bar will take any kind of money."
she_sells_seashells
"She'll give you one drink for free and that's it, everything else costs money. I clean enough to have a room, but not enough to get money on top of that."
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He nods. "That makes sense. Um. Is there some other way I can help?"