Hunting or Roaming? (Open)

[Katniss Everdeen]

Katniss was bored, and she was debating on whether she should go past the fences and go hunting for game, or just go and roam the district. Maybe go to the black market. She stopped in her tracks outside of her house. She just did not know what to do. She did not want to leave the district today, but if she could not find anyone to talk to, or even find someone to hunt with, she might just go and walk around. Katniss sat down outside of her house and looked at her sister's goat. She smiles as she went to the flash back on how that goat came to be into the Everdeen household.

Katniss smiled again and it disapeared as she got up and walked toward the richer part of the district. She knew only her clientele who were over here and she looks around to see how everyone was doing. She was going to try and hit some of the up tonight when she does hunt for trades. She knows that she can get some good deals, even from the Peacekeepers.

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[Nichole Keene]

She didn't exactly know what she was doing here today, all she knew for sure that was the needed a break from her home. Cole loved her mother deeply, but sometimes taking care of the woman twenty-four hours a day got to her, and she just needed some time alone. There wasn't anything for her to do here today. She had no means to take anything home with her, and she had no one to confide in. Perhaps that's exactly why she was here- She was totally alone. These were the times when Cole enjoyed being a sponge. She knew almost everyone, but no one knew her.

Cole kept her eyes on her feet. Her mind had wandered a million miles away. She could have stayed that way, locked in her own little world, as a thousand ideas danced inside her head.. But the impact of her body crashing into someone else brought her back to reality. "I'm so sorry-" She looked up. The face was familiar. "Katniss?"

[Katniss Everdeen]

Katniss was walking and she was not paying attention to much, until she was ran into. She jumped back then and she looked a the person who ran into her. She sighs and she shakes her head before looking at the girl. Smiles just was not this girl's thing. She listens to her though then heard the questions. She smirks then and she smiles a little.

"Yep, and it is ok Nicole." She knew most of the people in the district from trading her game with families. She knew that she traded with the Keene family many times, she only met Nicole a few times though. She looks around then and she shakes her head. "No one is out." She sighed then and looked back to Cole.

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[Nichole Keene]

Saying these two were never friends would be an understatement. It wasn't that Cole had any kind of problem with Katniss, because she didn't, it was more or less the fact that neither of them were social beings. In her years of watching, she'd only known Katniss to have one real friend, and that was one more than Cole could say she had.

"Frankly, I don't even know why I'm out today," she gave an awkward laugh. "I had no intention of ending up here." She knew how to talk to people, it was the responses that threw her off guard. She bit the inside of her lip mildly before speaking again. "Did you catch anything good today? I know my father has been wanting some fresh meat."

[Katniss Everdeen]

Katniss looks down at the ground and she shakes her head. "I have not been out yet. But I will go out tonight and get the game that is on my traps." She chuckles lightly though and shakes her head. "I am the same way when ever I go out roaming. Never intend on going anywhere particular, but I end up here or by Peeta's." Speaking of Peeta, she actually missed him right now.

She let her feelings for him slide back as she focused on the girl in front of her. She did not want to be focused on two things, that really should not be good, especially since she does not want to be rude.

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[Nichole Keene]

"I never learned how to make traps," Cole twisted her lips a little. "I don't get to go that much, what with my mother being sick. The only way I know how to hunt is with a knife."

Katniss spoke again, and this comment made a small sting of jealously dance in her heart. Of course, she was not obsessed with Peeta. She hadn't spoken to him enough to become so. He was just the only person in this district who didn't make her feel like an outcast. Shaking the thought from her head, she gave Katniss another soft smile. "Peeta? I've always seen you venturing with Gale. Did you two have a falling out?"

[Katniss Everdeen]

Katniss heard her and she shakes her head again. "Well, If you want to learn, you can come out with me. We can head out now actually. I can do with some relaxation from hunting." She offered a small smile, but she caught the small flare of jealousy in Cole's eyes when she mentioned Peeta. She shakes her head then at Cole's response.

"Actually, myself and Gale are just good friends. I trust him to take care of my family if something happens to me, and the same goes for him." She looked at her then and she smirks again. "So, can you squeeze through fence holes?" She asked the other girl quietly.

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[Nichole Keene]

Cole ignored her other comments for the time being. She was truly shocked to learn that Katniss and Gale were just friends. She raised her eyebrows as a smile formed on her lips. "No way," she gave a small laugh. "You and Gale are like the perfect couple. I just always thought it was more than that. Perhaps sneaking into the woods to steal a kiss or two."

As a laugh escaped her lips, she gave a soft shrug. "The fence isn't an issue," she commented. "It's the learning process that might serve as a road block." With that being said, she gave a nod. "Let's do it."

[Katniss Everdeen]

She noticed how Cole skipped over her last comments and focused on her and Gales relationship. There was nothing there, Gale may like her, but Katniss, just does not feel the same. She looked Cole in the eyes then and she shook her head. "Nothing but friendship and hunting partners is going on between myself and Gale." She dropped the subject then and ignored the girl's chuckle.

She heard her part about the learning though and that was her moment to chuckle. "Well then, teaching will be fun." She smiles lightly before she turns and starts toward the fence near them that had to hole. She stops at the fence and acts as if she was looking for something on the ground as she waited for Cole to catch up to her.

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[Nichole Keene]

Though Cole went along with Katniss and dropped the subject, she knew at least half of it was bluff. There was something there. Maybe it wasn't powerful, but it was there. She shook her head lightly and caught up to Katniss. She took a glance around to make sure no one was paying them any attention before she dropped to her knees, waiting on Katniss to slip through.

"I have my knife," she spoke thoughtlessly. "So at least if I suck at this, I can still catch something."

[Katniss Everdeen]

There had to be something she could do about people thinking that she and Gale were together. She would have to figure that out later. For now, she has a new hunting partner and she is about to teach her about traps as well. She watched as Cole dropped down and opened the slit and she ducked through quickly and held it from the other side. As she waited for Cole to go through she though on the knife that Cole had brought.

"You know how to throw that knife right, because that would be the only way to get any game with it." If she did not know how to throw, then by golly she would teach her that too. She lowered the fence once Cole went through. She walked a few feet into the forest and she grabs her bow out of one tree and walked a few feet more before she grabbed her arrows.

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[Nichole Keene]

Cole nodded her head as she walked behind Katniss, "My dad's been training me with a knife for years. Though it's more physical fighting, I can throw. Animals are easy to hit." She wasn't the best at everything, but the skills Cole did have were important. She could fight, she was good with a knife, and her feet were outrageously fast.

"When was the last time you saw big game out here?" She questioned, watching Katniss carefully as she equipped her bow and arrows. That was something Cole never had the patience for, which, as the she thought about it, is probably why so she was so good in a physical fight.

[Katniss Everdeen]

Katniss listened to her as she put her arrows around her back and she pulled out an arrow and studied it before she notched it on her bow. She looked at Cole then and actually smiles. "Well, that is a good thing to hear. Your father has prepared you well then, at least for hunting, and some self defense, depending on how fast people are." She would give the girl that much, her father was smart to train her how he has. I should probably start training Prim, but then, she is pro-life.

Katniss focused back int hen and she thought for a second. "Last big game was probably about three weeks ago and it was a deer. Yeah, thats right, almost got it but Gale decided to scare it away..." A scowl hit her face then and she looks back at Cole. "Does not mean we can not find something just as good." She smiles again and walks into the forest a bit.

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[Nichole Keene]

"I'm actually pretty fast," Cole gave a shrug. "I just can't imagine that fast feet and physical knife skill would keep me alive if I were reaped. At least, not against those who train to be killers."

She walked behind Katniss once more, it had been a while since she'd been on a hunt. She knew her feet were still quiet, but when it came to the best place to hunt, it'd just been so long. "I think we could do it," she gave a soft smile. "Carry a deer back, I mean. It's the not getting seen part that would be complicated."

[Katniss Everdeen]

She looks at Cole and she smirks. "We shall see how fast you are when game is coming at you or running away from you." She chuckles then and stops and looks around. She did hear something, but not animal like. She looks back at Cole and motions for her to go to the the bushes near them and Katniss silently runs over to some bushes herself.

She crouches low as she watches some peacekeepers walk by. There must be some runaways, unless we have been ratted on. Her mind reeled, but she knew that no one would tell on her for they needed the game just as much as she did, and she was their way of getting it. After a few minutes, the two peacekeepers left and she waited a few more moments before she looked around again and left the bushes.

She looks over to where Cole was hiding and she sighs in relief. "That was odd. Someone must have ran away, why they would come this way is a mystery to me." She walks over to Cole then. "All good?" She asked her.

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