I'd say "I hate to say I told you so,"

[mindoirsurvivor]

But I don't.

Also, how about keeping the noise level down tonight, neighbors?

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[mindoirsurvivor]

Usually, I don't get reactions this negative until a second date.

[johannamason]

Yeah, well if you're all buddy-buddy with Katniss and Peeta then you know where we came from. So you're just gonna have to live it while I'm stuck here.

[mindoirsurvivor]

I know Miss Everdeen used to be a paramilitary commander. Beyond that, they haven't talked about it much. Insurgency forces, I take it?

[johannamason]

Yeah. A good use for a bunch of kid murderers like us.

[mindoirsurvivor]

As in children murderers, or murderers of children?

[johannamason]

Both.

[mindoirsurvivor]

If you had a government that let that happen, then it deserved to fall.

[johannamason]

Don't say it like it was inevitable. Some of us worked hard to bring them down.

[mindoirsurvivor]

I didn't mean it that way. Bringing down a regime takes guns and grit. A Hell of a lot of it. I respect that.

[johannamason]

Yeah, well, then respect Katniss. She's the one who did most of it.

[mindoirsurvivor]

I respect veterans, Johanna. I respect survivors. If you tell me Everdeen got the job done I'll give credit where credit's due, but if you all weathered the kind of shitstorm that comes with a revolution, you've all got my respect.

And yes. I'm aware you don't want or need it.

[johannamason]

Yeah well. It's not like I was a bystander either.

[mindoirsurvivor]

Yeah, you didn't strike me as the bystander type.

[johannamason]

Like I said, if I'd been able to tell you to get lost when you found us out there, we wouldn't even be having this conversation right now.

[mindoirsurvivor]

I'll keep it in mind.

[burnedout]

It's not as if the alternative was much better in the end.

[mindoirsurvivor]

Unfortunate, but not too surprising. The kind of people who get into politics are almost always exactly the last people you want there.

[pelagically]

I'm glad everyone can read that now.

[johannamason]

Ashamed? I'm not.

[burnedout]

Might as well get it out there.

[pelagically]

I guess so.