Artemis Dawn Orion

"How’d you know about everything in the first place?"

"Well, for starters, I'm from Mercury."

"No, no. If I didn’t want to hear about it, why would I have asked? C’mon, use your head, you look like a smart girl—— now enlighten me.”

"Right, sorry. Being out here, studying these creatures—and plants—I've been.. driving myself crazy studying them," she took a deep breath, relieving herself from her hesitancy, "I've known some of the information this camp has disclosed before I came here."

"I’ve never tried herbs before, but if you are confident in your knowledge, I wouldn’t mind a bit of experimentation before the first aid kit."

"Okay. I gathered a few the other day, studied what I could. I think we can find something."

"I could try to find a first aid kit. Or we could experiment with some herbs?"

"I was planning on it, actually. But now I don’t think it’ll be as effective."

"Yeah, kind of. That’s not horrible, though. You could be worse."

"I suppose you're right. Thanks for not totally giving me a questioning look or something."

"Well, I honestly don't know.. but I guess we'll see, yeah?"

"What do you do if you happened to get bitten by something?"

"Depends. What bit you?"

"I’d say so. I only had bad feelings when I came here— still do, in fact. And look what’s happened."

"I guess I'm weird, then."

"At least they have shit eyesight, so running might work in your favor," she mused, "or you could throw shit in front of them." A sacrifice, of sorts. "Yeah, true, maybe the eessa really is out there," she agreed, leaning back against a random tree. "If there’s one thing I’m thankful for about this place, it’s for actually revealing to us what the government’s been doing. I always knew they were corrupt—there’s no way they were perfect,” she said the word as if it was poison; she’d lived in conditions the powerful liked to toss aside and deem as rotten, “but I never knew just how fucked up they were. They were always good at lying—just not good enough, apparently.” Her lips curled into a smirk at Artemis’ next remark. “Sounds like a real party. I don’t see why not, though I haven’t heard of anyone actually doing so. With the way these are matched up, I’m surprised some tents haven’t killed each other yet.”

Artemis nodded in agreement to everything Elodie had said about the government. There was no such thing as a genuine utopia. It was just an idea. A thought that the government had managed to instill in [almost] everyone's mind. She chuckled, "I barely know half the people here, so.." she glanced around. "But you're probably right. I bet they did that on purpose—assigning such roommates," Maybe she could find somewhere else to sleep. Possibly just lay underneath the moon, watch for proof of an eessa. "What planet are you from anyways?" she realized that she hadn't asked her the question yet. They'd been caught up in so much more that the idea of small talk never came to mind.

Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.