victory_road | [Video/Action] New Bark Town

[As the video feed switches on, there is a very timid and frightened girl on the screen. She's sitting on the bed in the house that she woke up in a day or so ago. After meeting up with a strange old man, being given a ball and this gear, she was lost, upset and ended up back at the very same house. A kind woman has taken her back in but it's quite clear that the woman was now hoping the young girl would soon set out on her journey. Like the others...

There was a skiddo on the bed next to her, her head resting on her lap and watching up at her with wide eyes. This skiddo has felt Prim's loneliness and pain. She feels it every time Prim runs her hand over her horns. And she didn't know how to make her trainer feel better.

Prim's making this Gear post out because of the suggestion of the kind woman. If there was somebody she was desperately looking for, this would be the way.

There were tears brimming on her eyes as she tries to stare into the camera of her gear.]

Katniss...? They said that...if you were here, you would see this and contact me. I don't know where I am...and last time...

[Her voice catches for a moment and she tries to clear her throat.]

Last time I saw you...they were forcing you onto that train. And...I really want to see you again.

Please come take me home....

[There is a moment that the video hangs as she tries to figure out how to turn off the recording and just before the clip ends, you could faintly hear her begin to cry, with the skiddo making soft soothing sounds towards her]

[ooc: I promise Prim won't always be so sad. She just needs some love at the moment! She will desperately pick up any messages sent to her gear in the hopes that it's her sister. Or if anybody would like to coax her out into the world, please visit her in the random house in New Bark Town that she's hiding in!]

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Everyone does. [ Which may or may not include Yang at this point. ] It can happen but... it's random. Just like getting here.

But... no one's putting you - or anyone else - on any train.

[Prim's eyes widen at the mention of a train and the panic could almost be seen on her face. This person. She knows. Quickly, she scrambles up into an upright sitting position, more alert now.]

You know about -- did you come from another district?

[She pauses, unsure of how to phrase the next question.]

Do you...know if...the Games I ...I need to know if Katniss is --

[Okay? Still alive? Every single way to end the sentence was just wrong.]

[ Yang's brows shoot up. Clearly there was some miscommunication there and, because of it, the girl seems more alarmed than distraught.

Way to go, Yang. Can't even try and cheer up a poor lost kid. Why do you even bother?

She quickly shakes her head, clearing it and also showing the girl that, no, she misspoke. ] No. No, no, god I'm sorry. I don't know anything about any of that, and I haven't heard anyone with that name... I just — you talked about a train and, well, no one's done that kind of stuff around here before.

Sorry.

[Oh. She settles back down onto the bed now, disappointed by the response. In her original video, she was rambling and couldn't quite remember what she had said. There was a moment of hope when Yang talked about the train that maybe...she would be able to at least make sure Katniss got through the games.

Her gaze now settles back down onto the bed, there is a little sigh. Her voice was very soft as she continues to talk. Truthfully, Prim wasn't sure why she was talking about this but...sometimes talking makes her feel better even though usually it's only with Katniss.]

After the reaping, you get put onto the train...and they take you to the Capitol. They start with twenty four and...only one person gets to come home...

[The gear is now propped up on a pillow, pushed into that position by Lady as she pulls her knees up to her chest and hides her face. The skiddo is staring at the monitor as if desperately trying to find a way for her trainer to cheer up. Skiiii....]

[ There are many horrible implications there, but in a combination of not wanting to freak herself or this girl out, and being absorbed in her own problems from home, Yang doesn't dwell on them. Not yet. She can still sound sure of a lot though, because this world is way too good to people in a general sense to be involved in anything like that. ]

There's definitely nothing like that happening here. It's safe. You're safe, and if anyone you know arrived here with you, they're safe too. [ Yang got all that out without pause, so she stopped to take a breath. Easy there. ]

...the only fighting here is done by Pokémon.

[She stared blankly into the gear for a moment and then shakes her head before clinging to her skiddo.]

Lady can't do any fighting...

[She is now hugging onto her skiddo as if protecting her fiercely from anything this world can throw at them. Her one friend that has been here since she has arrived. She would never let anything happen to Lady.]

She...she needs to stay here with me...where it's safe...

[ That move surprises Yang, only because she's seen what a lot of different beasts here can do. Cute or not, they cam whoop some serious butt, and it's good that they don't target people often enough to worry about. ]

She's tougher than she looks. All of them are. Just... here, lemme show you.

[ Yang turned her head to the side, and gave a quick whistle. ] Hey, Jolty. You awake...?

[ On command, a four-inch yellow fuzzy spider-tick emerges from within Yang's less-than-kempt mane. The Joltik slowly untangles itself and perches upon the left shoulder, looking curiously between her trainer and the 'gear. ] See this little gal? Jolty can shoot a web that slows the biggest, meanest Pokémon out there. She runs circles around them after that.

[ Jolty raises its head up, then angles its body downward in a display that's probably supposed to convey a sense of pride. This has to be reassuring, right? ]

[She watches the little display and hugs onto her skiddo even tighter now, shaking her head.]

If Lady gets hurt then I'll be by myself again. So...she can't do any fighting. That's when people get hurt...

[...and then they never get to go home.]

Don't you get scared when you see your friend fighting?

[ Now see, Yang had a momentary flash of memory when the girl said that. She clamped her eyes shut.

"Get away from her!!!"

No, Yang. Not that friend. ]

It... kind of weirded me out at first. A lot of things here did. But I used to get excited when it came time to battle the gym leaders. [ She shook her head. ] Lady won't leave you. Pokémon never really get hurt they just... get tired. [ Yang smirked, her tone dry. ] I know that sounds like such a line, right? Like something you tell a little kid just so they think their pets can't die but. I mean it. I've been fighting with my crew for four months and they've never so much as sprained a paw or singed a feather. I promise.

[She shook her head. She had seen what it's like when animals get hurt. When animals get shot with arrows. Prim knew that back at home, this is something that needed to be done. Otherwise, how would they eat? But it wasn't something she enjoyed in any capacity. Her entire core belief was about healing and protecting.]

How do they fight without getting hurt...?

[Her voice was really quiet, not really believing. This had to be some kind of trick. But the person she was speaking to seemed so sincere and...the pokemon earlier seemed quite happy. Even so...]

I don't think...I would be any good...

Like I said, they're tough. It ... it doesn't make sense, I know, but it works. You can ask anyone. Watch some fights. I'd show you but, uh, I'm not in a good place to do that. [ A pause. ] I'm about two weeks away from New Bark if that's where you still are. [ Nice save, Yang. ]

[Video/Action] New Bark Town - Introduction

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