deadalready | 9th Swing [Video]

[The video lights up on Cato's face as he watches something off-screen with a very fixed look. Whatever it is, it grabbed his attention just before he opened his journal. It's only a few seconds before he looks back at the page and clears his throat.]

So does anyone want to tell me who's responsible for this --

[The video cuts away a moment, blurring as he shifts to stealthily show Clove hunkered down over some small piece of wood in her hands with a look of very intense concentration her face. There are little bandages peppering her fingers and she looks like she's trying to cut the little piece into something smaller. She keeps shaving away at it.

The video jerks back to Cato's very bemused face.]

I have no idea what she's doing. But it's been going on for days now and I'm a little....weirded out. Every time I tell her to stop because it's making her upset she just yells at me and she won't even show me what she's doing with it.

This is the first time she's cut herself with her knives in years. I don't think I've seen her this bad with one since we were thirteen and just starting out with our weapons.

Someone told her to do this, didn't they? It just...doesn't make sense for her.

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[He may not know Cato and Clove, but he feels that something should be said in reply to the video post. Watching the latter cutting up a piece of wood like that and getting hurt is indeed a cause for concern]

Have you ever considered putting away her knives until she has grown out of her current behavior?

Cato!

[The Tribute chaperone looks rather alarmed at Clove's behavior.]

Do you think she might require more practice?

Are her knives going blunt? Fuuko has cut Fuuko's hand before when the knife Fuuko was using was very worn out, it kept catching on the wood so Fuuko found it very hard to carve anything with it.

[On the journal, Fuuko holds up an old craft knife with a noticeably dull blade.]

....Looks like she's whittling. Carving the wood into a shape or type of miniature statue. If she's never done it before, she's probably sawing too hard on the wood, so when she slips, it goes into her fingers. She needs to work away from her hands.

I hate to diagnose a stranger over the journals, but it looks like soul-sickness.

[It's a strange feeling still to feel worry over Clove. To be able to understand the concern Cato might have for his fellow Tribute. She doesn't like him, not like she's slowly grown to enjoy Clove's company. But because of that, because of that tentative comradeship she's formed with the other girl, she doesn't ignore this post. Instead, she gives it as much attention as she would were someone she considered friend upset.

She tries to peer closer at the video feed. Clove's actions remind her a little of the whittling Richard does, the way he's carved those wooden animals now scattered throughout the house. But as far as she can see, the girl isn't making anything in particular.

Katniss frowns, brow wrinkling.] Is she making something?

Huh, maybe she picked up some kinda carving hobby or something...

Hmm...is she wood-carving, perhaps?

[ HOW NEAT. It's positively crafty, really. ]

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