The Day When I Will Leave // Open

[Gamemaker Lauren Kinkade]

Dont cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me
Dont cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me

It sucked being out on her own, like really, really sucked. She hadn't really planned to be just wandering aimlessly. Obviously someone else lived in the woods - she could just get their help, right? That had always worked before for Bambi, and she couldn't quite puzzle out why it wasn't working now. Luckily she'd learned a thing or two from her more clever (and better at life) sister, and had packed a backpack with mostly food. She'd taken a knife too but other than cutting up the jerky, she had no idea what to do with it. Maybe she'd carve her name into some trees.

It occurred to her later that might be a bad idea, given that people were probably looking for her. Or not. It really depended on if Glaucia had her shit together. Whatever. She didn't want to think about her twin, or the home she had left behind. She just wanted to be warm, and full, and to not have to pee of the side of a fallen log. It was just disgusting and she really, really hoped people in the woods didn't live like that all the time.

It was getting later in the afternoon. A few days in the woods and she was beginning to be able to gauge the passing of time, which was a solid victory. Turns out the sky made pretty colors when the day was drawing to close. She'd never really noticed that before, because she scavenged for brighter colors in her day to day life, anything to mask her brown eyes, her gonzo nose. Already her hair was starting to shed the purple dye, and she'd forgotten to bring any of that sort of stuff.

So Bambi began to put flowers in her hair. She'd tried rubbing their soft petals against her head, but that had only led to several fits of sneezing. So she just wove them in now, made them a prime distraction from her yawning roots. She was picking a patch of pale blue blossoms when she heard something like talking. It could just be the wind, but she really wanted to see someone, other than a Peacekeeper. A boy would be really fabulous, but Bambi would settle for whatever.

She quickly ran her fingers through the bottom of her waist-long hair, smoothed out the edges around her face, and turned in a slow circle in the middle of the flower patch. Maybe it was just her imagination, which would be so flipping disappointing, she couldn't even stand the thought. There had to be someone, a strong knight to rescue her from the quiet woods.

banner credit: kaytorade (this girl)
lyrics: pcd don't cha

[Dancin]

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome I could cry

Ocean Neil Miller

As I traipsed almost silently through the forest, I tried to justify what I had just done to myself. I had to leave Thalia in Eight, our strange relationship was just too much, for the both of us. I wasn't sure why I wasn't heading straight home to my mother, but for some reason my feet refused to turn that way. After about a day of extreme self-loathing I had given in with a sigh and let my body go where it pleased.


It had grown very cold in the last few weeks, and today especially I was thankful for Sebastian's clothes I had managed to leave with. The jacket was light, but the thick wool sweater and sloppily knit toque were enough to keep me from freezing at night. I had also cut holes in a pair of woolly socks to make gloves, that made it much easier to wield the small carving knife I had brought from Twelve.

The knife wasn't much in the ways of hunting, but it was good at cutting plants, and I didn't care much for uncooked meat anyways. I had learned fairly quickly which plants were edible from watching the animals I passed, and berries filled my stomach just as well as rabbit. Also in my satchel was a small canteen, a comb, some rope , a half finished bar of soap, and a thin blanket. These few possessions were all I had left, and it was oddly liberating. The Capitol had possessions and I had no desire to be like them.


It was late afternoon when I saw her. She was sitting in a patch of pretty light blue flowers, pruning for the prettiest and placing them in her long, purple hair. I felt a surge of several emotions choke my brain and I had to take several deep breaths to sort them out. First was suspicion, who was she? Why was she all the way out here? Next was relief, to have finally found someone. It was painful to be so alone sometimes. Then I felt the stab of pain because, though this girl looked nothing like Thalia, she reminded me of what I had lost, and what I had left behind me.

The girl stiffened, hearing- or perhaps sensing my presence. She got slowly to her feet, pulling out a much bigger knife than the one clenched in my sock-clad hand. I swallowed hard and briefly prayed that she wasn't going to stab me before I stepped out into the clearing and the dying afternoon sun.

"Um, Hi." I said, waving the knife through the air. "I'm uh- Ocean. What's your name?"

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[Gamemaker Lauren Kinkade]

Dont cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me
Dont cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me

Bambi hadn't taken much when she'd left home, but she'd been pretty smart about the few things in her pack. One of them was a boning knife, another a gutting, and both were wicked to look at. She took the latter, which had been sharpened very shortly before she absconded with it, and turned around in a circle. It was so bloody difficult to sort out anything in the forest; she was used to looking at the pattern of waves against endless blue, not sticks of brown and green.

She tried to sort through the woods anyhow, and utterly failed. It was just so hard, but she was pretty sure she'd heard something move on purpose. After only a short time outside the fences, she'd gotten good at differentiating between the sounds the wind made, and the sounds living things made. So maybe she wasn't hopeless, after all.

It was more him spotting her than the other way around, but Bambi felt a flush of pride as she finally centered her doey gaze on him. As he waved with his weapon, she brought hers up, a little tentatively at first. And then, once she saw the flash of it in the air, more enthusiastically.

"Ocean! That's rad. Like, seriously. Oh me?" She blinked, as though it was the first time she'd ever heard the question. And perhaps it was, at least out in the wild. She debated a moment about whether or not she should provide her birth name. What if he ended up in Four and told someone? But he seemed nice, and Ocean, that was just so wicked cool. "It's Bambi," she finally said, eyelashes fluttering.

banner credit: kaytorade (this girl)
lyrics: pcd don't cha

[katnissmockingjay]

"It sucks being out here alone" Katniss said as she walked around in the vast open woods holding a bow and arrow close to her body running her thumb over her fathers necklace that her father had given her only months before he died. Sticking to the shade that the trees provide, she continous her walk.
"I want so bad to find a place to rest and fill up my water bottle" she thought as she stumbled about the branches that lay strewn across the forest floor.

[Gamemaker Lauren Kinkade]

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