Open; i'm the kinda guy who likes to roam around

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Who: Nessa Llewellyn and YOU
Where: Trailblazers gym, downtown LA and the outskirts of the city.
When: A few days after the sinkhole.
What: A day in the life of Nessa. With no immediate threats and nothing happening with the sinkhole, Nessa tries to busy herself as usual.
Warnings: Potential gore for the last one.

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Nessa looks up from the half naked bird, wholly unconvinced. She knows what Katniss is like, and straight up asking her what was wrong was probably not the best course of action. So she'd mention her own stuff, in the hope Katniss would open up a little.

"I know I needed to let off some steam," she starts, plucking some wing feathers out, stroking them carefully.

"Did you want some of these for your arrows?"

Ignoring that bit about going back.

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"May as well take a few of the best ones, just in case," Katniss concedes, though her brow has furrows since Nessa's mention of blowing off steam. She frowns.

"What's going on with you?" she asks. She hadn't really noticed.

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She pulls out some of the better wing feathers and places them carefully in a small pile next to where she's crouched before getting back to work.

When Katniss speaks again, Nessa gives a short sigh, shrugging her shoulders. "I dunno. I guess I'm feeling a little out of the loop with people. Aliens," she frowns, looking at the ground. "I mean, now he has someone else why would he hang around..." she stops herself, shaking her head. She knows him better than that.

"I just needed to stretch my muscles and clear my head."

[mockingjaded]

She creases her brow, staring at Nessa more than plucking her bird now. It occurs to her that the source of their stress is coming from the same thing...even if the angle is pretty different.

"Have you met Sollux?" she asks in disbelief, as if wondering how Sollux could be sufficient social contact for anyone at the moment.

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Nessa pauses, glancing up.

"Yeah, I met him," she pauses, giving a small smile. "He kinda reminds me of Karkat when he furrst got here, just... way more...," she scrunches up her nose.

"TRIDENT."

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"TRIDENT seems to have that effect on people..." Katniss says, with a clear edge of distaste. She finds Sollux fairly unapproachable, but at the same time, she deeply resents the idea of what's been done there.

"But I doubt that's everything Karkat needs in a friend right now, Nes'," she adds, glancing up at her.

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Nessa watches Katniss carefully, and gives a small nod, playing with one of the wing feathers between her fingers. She knows she's probably just overreacting, but the concern is still there.

"Yeah, I know. I guess because he's not really been around since Sollux got here," she pauses, worrying her bottom lip. "Now that Alternians he knows are here, why would he hang out with humans? I mean, that sounds totally stupid and junk, I guess I'm just feeling like I haven't seen him in aggges and I'm trying to figure out why."

She gives Katniss a weak smile. "Plus I totally kinda persuaded Karkat to come out to look at the sink hole and Sollux got out so he probably doesn't wanna see me now anyway."

[mockingjaded]

"Ah," she says, smiling a little back as she plucks a few more feathers from her bird. "I was wondering why he changed his mind when he'd spent the last half hour trying to keep me from going."

She shrugs a shoulder.

"Just give him some time. He's got a lot on his plate."

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She gives Katniss a sheepish smile. "What can I say, I'm too cute to say no to," she says, poking the feather she'd been playing with in her mess of hair.

"Yeah, I guess! I'm being purrty silly," she shrugs. "Coming out here helped. Thanks, 'niss."