[Katniss]

[knowthyexits]

With Cromartie moved to her place, Sarah needs to dig another hole. She's got a shovel, but it's taking longer than it should. This goes faster when you have three people to help and one of those people isn't a person at all, but a machine who doesn't need to sleep. She's feeling a shade of sick again and lilts slightly as she buries the shovel in the sand, swaying and trying to find some stability again.

Cromartie's broken face peers out from the dirt at her and she lodges the shovel loose enough for just a moment to spill sand over him, until his eyes can't see a single thing.

She grips the handle of the shovel just a little tighter. "Damn it," she mutters, aware she should take a break, but too stubborn to just stop.

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[knowthyexits]

"None of us are," Sarah agrees, and she's still on high-guard. Katniss Everdeen saw her with the body and now Sarah is going to have to make a decision about how much she says. "My name is Sarah Baum," she lies with ease. "And you've seen me twice now with a body. I need to know what you're going to do about it."

[burnwithus.livejournal.com]

"Did you kill him?" Katniss pauses for a moment, considering. "It," she finally corrects herself, because one look at the body could tell her that the thing wasn't human. It was terrifying, actually - the glint of metal underneath his skull hinting at something worse than just the Capitol's muttations.

It's none of her business, anyways. If Sarah thinks that she's the type to take things into her own hands when she absolutely doesn't have to, then she's wrong. Katniss has had enough of fighting to last a lifetime.

[knowthyexits]

"Not alone," is Sarah's response as her gaze drifts down into the hole once more to stare at the glint of metal from Cromartie's skull. Funny. Her shovel 'slips' the next time she lets it fall, clanging against hard metal. "It was necessary. This thing is a killer."