This is Jason Compson. If you're calling for business, press one and you'll go through to my work phone. If this is something else, leave a message and I'll get to it eventually. If this is my mother, I'm going through a tunnel.
[He takes his time before he goes and investigates, unsure if he should feel guilty or not for completely disregarding getting anyone else a holiday gift. When he does, he's actually pleasantly surprised that it's something he'll use, when he's smoking for pleasure instead of to stave off a headache.]
That's all right. It's mostly to say thank you. For taking care of me when my nightmares were bad.
[He didn't understand or sympathise, necessarily, but neither had he laughed at her or belittled her for carrying the weight of something most Capitolites assumed she must be proud of, and treated as entertainment themselves.]
[He's worked too long around Tributes for that, become too jaded about the Games for that. Maybe if they still held that aura of entertainment for him, he would be sucked into the mystique of being a Mentor. But cumulatively, he's been Escorting for over a decade; he's seen Mentors pissing their sheets and binge-eating themselves sick. There's no magic, there never was.]
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[He takes his time before he goes and investigates, unsure if he should feel guilty or not for completely disregarding getting anyone else a holiday gift. When he does, he's actually pleasantly surprised that it's something he'll use, when he's smoking for pleasure instead of to stave off a headache.]
i'm allergic to the d4 one
but thank you. i appreciate i.
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[He didn't understand or sympathise, necessarily, but neither had he laughed at her or belittled her for carrying the weight of something most Capitolites assumed she must be proud of, and treated as entertainment themselves.]
I'm sure I can swap it out for another one.
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[He's worked too long around Tributes for that, become too jaded about the Games for that. Maybe if they still held that aura of entertainment for him, he would be sucked into the mystique of being a Mentor. But cumulatively, he's been Escorting for over a decade; he's seen Mentors pissing their sheets and binge-eating themselves sick. There's no magic, there never was.]
well i wasn't going to let you keep screaming
it's fine, i'll find some use for it
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get it, because he's useless.
i'll use it to poison him
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[She's only half joking.]
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[Jason had been working District Ten at the time, and the memory still gives him a second-hand cringe.]
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