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sweet tea in the summer | {jed & kieran blitz} Aug 29, 2020 10:18:11 GMT -5

Post by kait but as dars on Aug 29, 2020 10:18:11 GMT -5

kieran.

The act of door to door campaigning is. Strange.

It's an oddly lonesome task, for something so social. When you knock on the Winchester's front door, it's number you can't hardly remember at this point, and your legs are exhausted from trekking all over town. You know that you've never had as much exposure to other parts of Ten as you should have though, know that you were kept up all nice and cocooned in your little victor parent bubble.

Hell, you didn't even live here until you were a decade old.

You want more face time with the people that you've going to be trying so hard, the young faces that you know are the future of Ten. People like Jed Winchester, whose brother you can still so clearly picture being stabbed by Aeson Knight. You were too young to be watching things like that, but the kids in the Games are too young to be living through something like that, so really you don't regret your choices.

It's why, when Jed opens the door, you hope that your eyes are kind enough looking, hope that he's going to let you in, talk to you. You hope he'll tell you what he needs from Ten, what he needs from you.

"Jed," you say. "Think I could have a few minutes?"

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sweet tea in the summer | {jed & kieran blitz} Aug 29, 2020 17:11:20 GMT -5

Post by Tom on Aug 29, 2020 17:11:20 GMT -5

Today was his day off from the ranch.

Pa had told him to head back inside and help Cash with his schoolwork when he got the chance, but there was no way in hell that Jedidiah Winchester would be brought back to doing math in his free time. Instead, he lazes on the couch, breaths in the air and takes the best nap he's had in days. Wondering if Levi was thinking about him or not, he imagines the warm sun is the gentle touch of Levi smiling back at him at an ungodly time. A smile pulls at his lips for a bit until the knock rings on the door, breaking his nap and silence, quietly yawning to the open air.

Stretching for a moment as he rises up, lets his shirt rise with him as he breaths in the afternoon air. Ma would be going to make a late lunch eventually, but for now, he goes to answer the door, ignoring the lack of sound from any of his other siblings inside. All of them probably trying to avoid any sort of confrontation with whoever was at the door. Not many people come out to their little ranch home; unless they were looking for work in the blazing sun. Quietly and quickly, he opens the door, noticing the way the man before him is dressed. The man is well dressed and looks much much more put together than a half asleep Jedidiah Winchester, but through the drowsy haze, he realizes who it is.

"Jed," Mayor Candidate Kieran Emberstatt speaks, making him want to close the door and get dressed properly and not be wearing his work clothes that he had planned to wear today. "Think I could have a few minutes?" He's shocked at the idea of Kieran Emberstatt standing before him, but all major families were tied in some way. Caine had tied them to the Emberstatts, the Lowes, and any of the other District Ten families. Quickly for a moment, he closes the door, brushes a hand through his hair trying to compose himself. He checks his reflection against the metal decoration on the wall and smooths out his shirt before quickly reopening the door.

"Sure! I've got more than a few minutes for an Emberstatt."

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sweet tea in the summer | {jed & kieran blitz} Aug 29, 2020 21:30:25 GMT -5

Post by kait but as dars on Aug 29, 2020 21:30:25 GMT -5

kieran.

It had been a long time since Caine Winchester had died in the games, but Kieran remembers it as well as he remembers all of the tributes from Ten that had the unfortunate fate of going into the games and not not coming home.

Jed looks for half a second like he's going to shut the door in your face, all shock and surprise and wide eyes crusted with sleep. You wouldn't blame him, you suppose; he doesn't owe it to you to talk to you.

Still, it'd be nice.

But then the door is closed and you can feel your heart stop just for a second. This had been a home that you'd been sure would talk to you, a home that surely must have been paying attention to Ten and everything that had changed in the last decade under Reggie and Mace, a family that would want to help you keep changing it for the better still. You feel your heart skip a beat before you start to turn away from the door, ready to accept the defeat, but then Jed is opening the door again, and you're confused but you take what you can get.

"Oh!" you say, allowing yourself half a moment of surprise before collecting yourself and smiling again. "You know I'm running for mayor, I assume?" you ask, sitting down on one of the benches on the Winchester's porch. Jed hadn't invited you in, and you don't want to presume, and here is as good a place as any. "So, I've been going around some of the further out of the way farms here in Ten and talking to the families about what I might be able to do to help, what has been working for them and what hasn't."