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10th retro gm | paxton hayes
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starting again {d3 train - 94th} Jun 2, 2023 0:42:10 GMT -5

Post by 10th retro gm | paxton hayes on Jun 2, 2023 0:42:10 GMT -5

Vallen Watkins
They came to say goodbye, his parents and siblings, and all of them cried except him. Being a puppet in a game is undesirable, yet he choice is gone. Freedom went out the door like a leave blowing carelessly in the wind the moment his name was called and nobody stepped forward to save him. Why would they? Life is selfish, and so many people live only caring about themselves, and now that he's venturing into the unknown, Vallen realizes how selfish he is. His entire life has been spent building robots and practically ignoring his family. This short period to say goodbye will never undo the time he's lost with them by staying in his room creating tiny robots.

But if I win, I'll do what I can to make it up to them.

Watching them leave was more difficult than he imagined. The heartbroken sobs echo through his mind as his mom is dragged out of the room. The words from earlier that day set heavily on his chest.

So much time wasted, and now I'm probably just going to die.

Even as they lead him from the justice building to the train, Vallen can't take his mind off anything. A horrible hand has been given to him, and bluffing isn't his strong suit. Every heartbeat feels like a complete lifetime.

I don't know what to do.

A heavy sigh leaves his chest as he boards the train. Wide eyes take it all in. The furniture is beautiful and fancy, and he's absolutely terrified he's going to break something. The views from the window are breathtakingly gorgeous. This is his home for the next few hours until it arrives at the prison holding cell of the Capitol. Walking around through the train, Vallen snags a glass of water from the table as well as a couple of cookies before taking a seat next to the window where he will enjoy watching the world go by as he journeys to his next location.

lest we forget [the characters]

credit to Zoe

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starting again {d3 train - 94th} Jun 23, 2023 23:05:54 GMT -5

Post by marguerite harvard d2a (zori) on Jun 23, 2023 23:05:54 GMT -5

Magi Karp

He had been able to say goodbye to the world he’d once known, and now, as the train pulled away from the station, the grim reality that Magi’s life would change forever settled in his bones.

Magi didn’t move from the window for some time, watching as district three became a distant speck on the horizon. He wished that somehow that’s how it all felt, that he could push back all the memories of home just as fast as they sped away toward the capitol. Yet the longer he stood watching the concrete and chain link fences change to forests of pine the more he longed for another moment with his mother or father.

Would his friends mourn him? Would there be heartache for him, an empty space at the edge of the table, even if he hadn’t been one to add much to anything?

As he walked along the hall of the train, he steadied himself to finally meet the one that had come along with him.

He didn’t know Vallen, which was lucky. Better to start from scratch and open the possibility of friendship. Or, they could remain strangers to one another, with few words and even fewer slights.

As he stood at the edge of the room between the doorframe and his first step, Magi tried his best to give a grin.

“I’m sorry.” He apologized, as though he could take away what had been done to both of them. “It’s not quite what I imagined. Is it?”