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[Katniss is looking as cheerful as ever. Which is to say, not at all.]

Even if all these investigations find a way to fix the turtle, what's going to be done about the game? The kedan are coming to us for food, and what you can call a forest has basically been stripped clean. Unless we're just all living off vegetables until the next few breeding seasons have passed.

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[Missed him?]

People can eat plants until we find a way to get the fauna better. It's not really optimism to hope for that, there isn't a lack of scientist on the turtle working on it.

How many people are going to eat how many plants? We're on an island. We can't just relocate if we run out. [Her concern isn't with a lack of meat, it's with a lack of food in general. She definitely doesn't like the idea of food only coming from a couple of sources.]

You're really good at pointing flaws into other people's suggestions but I don't see you offering anything better.

You seem to know what you're talking about, so why don't you help us decide the better course of action?

[She bristles] Why do you think I made this post at all? [She's not exactly the most social of people] Why do you think I brought the topic up? If I knew what to do, don't you think I'd be doing it? If I'm pointing out flaws, it's because flaws in a plan of how to feed people mean that people will starve.

You don't look like someone who knows what that's like.

[There's a long pause here. It's difficult for her to even suggest this, and that shows on her face. Katniss has had a lot of bad experiences with decision making.] Set up a place for animal conservation. Give them a place to breed safely without domesticating them.

[He's not ignoring the first part, Katniss. He really isn't. He just knows pointing out he did starve once or twice won't help this discussion, not when he will never understand what it means to grow up surrounded by that.

But he still does think pointing flaws instead of suggesting better options rarely helps.]

That's a really good idea. We could set it up near the turtle's head...

[Ugh she really doesn't like this guy. But he's also being relatively helpful, so she continues talking] Not too close. Feeling safe will help them with breeding, but you don't want them...comatose.

There's a couple of scientists on the turtle, I'm sure they could manage to find what the perfect spot for breeding is with enough time.

See? Not everything is lost. We still have work to do.

[She shoves a hand back through her hair, looking exhausted. Too many people, too many conversations.] Good. Talk to them about it, then.

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