Anakin's office [early Monday morning, before classes]

[sith_happened]

Anakin, who had been running on the power of coffee for the last week, hadn't stopped watching the Games since the last shipment of bread had been delivered. There had been interviews with the survivors' families: Anakin was looking only to see Katniss's sister and to check that she still had all of her fingers attached.

He rubbed at his eyes blearily as the games began again, steeling himself for another day of devious, horrifying death. They were down to eight. Things were going to get even uglier.

[OOC: Up suuuuper early for the Hunger Games crew. NFB for character death.]

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Re: Leave Taking

[solo_sword]

There was a ridiculous sort of awkwardness to the fact that Jaina was here from so far away, that she hadn't known Katniss for very long at all, having only met her when she was a bubbly six-year-old with an owl talking about this very event and how she was named after a flower. And there wasn't anything she could do from here. She couldn't even offer hugs to anyone who needed it.

Which would be why when she did speak, it was a quiet, "I'm finishing up this assignment and I'll be there as soon as I can."

That would be for Anakin's benefit. She didn't think anyone else would really take comfort in it. At least she could do that.

Re: Leave Taking

[sith_happened]

Anakin nodded, looking as unaffected as he was able to. He knew Jaina wouldn't buy it but was hoping the rest of the room might.

"Stay safe."

Re: Leave Taking

[solo_sword]

"I will." She wanted to talk to him more in-depth, to check on how he was, but she wouldn't do that in front of anyone else, especially the kids. They were going to be looking to him and the other adults, and she wasn't about to push things. She'd get there, and there would most definitely be hugs, and they could talk as much as they needed to, and that would have to do.

"May the Force be with you." Somehow that seemed important right now.

Re: Leave Taking

[sith_happened]

Anakin bit back a dozen bitter responses about how the Force should have been with Katniss where it might have done some good, but he'd known that this was going to be the end result of the Games for some time and at least she'd gone out on her own terms.

It didn't make her a less dead teenager, though.

"And with you, my Jaina," he murmured.