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❝ Hello, you've reached Katniss Everdeen.
Please leave a message with your name and I'll get back to you. ❞

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Katniss.

[ Wait, no, don't say it like that. ]

Jon.

[ LOVE IS IN THE AI - no. ]

Oh. Hi.

You can hear me now. Good.

There's something I would ask you.

Yes, I can hear you. What did you need?

[An awkward pause.]

I wouldn't call it a need. More a request. For the event that's to follow the tournament.

After the tournament? [ ...Oh gosh, is there something after the tournament? She must scan her memory quickly. ]

The ball thing?

That's the one.

[And really, he should ask before she gets annoyed and disconnects.]

Are you going?

I hadn't thought about it.

[ Gosh, Jon. It's like you think she is an actual girl - a girl who looks forward to that sort of thing, or thinks about it at all. ]

Why?

And if you did think about it, would you go?

[How the hell did Robb get a wife. This is the hardest thing ever.]

If you thought about it, would you go with me?

..Oh.

[ It's not hard. Just...odd. Odd and weird. ]

I didn't know dates were a requirement.

They're not.

[He doesn't think.]

But you still want to go as one?

[He grew up in Winterfell, he probably hasn't sweated a day in his life.]

[Until now.]

We haven't talked about hunting in weeks.

So you want to go to a ball to talk about hunting?

[ Boy is strange. ]

And eat.

[ Both of which are something they could do in a less formal setting. But, hey. One does not proposition Katniss with food and walk away empty handed. ]

...If we went - if I went with you - would I have to wear a dress?

You could wear whatever you wanted.

[He tries to imagine her in corsets and satin and just. Can't.]

[ That's because imagining her in silks is silly. And corsets especially. ]

I would just wear my clothes from the tournament... Unless they get really dirty.

I'm not asking your clothes to go with me.

[Which sounds slightly wrong.]

Well, no. But you're supposed to dress up for these sorts of things, and I think it's only fair I warn you I'm not going to.

Good. I'm not planning it either.

Should we plan to just meet there? Or do we have to show up together?

I think I'm supposed to escort you.

Well... Okay. We can just meet up after the tournament if neither of us are changing clothes.

[ That's less...oddly like a date than being picked up. ]

It's decided then. After the tournament.

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