[This ended up being a minefield of monstrous proportions. Rideaux wasn't sure what he expected treading further into this subject, but this definitely wasn't it. It leaves him stunned.
He briefly considers the possibility that he's just become so used to killing out of necessity that talking about fighting in an arena doesn't have that much of an impact on him. It would just be another obstacle that he would have to overcome to keep living.
But he had no way of knowing that he'd end up being so blase about it to someone who has literally been in an arena of some kind of hellish design. It's a good reminder that he knows absolutely nothing about the people here, including Katniss.]
...Is that what you were doing before you woke up here, then? You were in another game, like Mallick Scott was?
[It's the first thing he can think of to say, because he's not quite sure how to react to tripping the hugest mine in this field.]
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He briefly considers the possibility that he's just become so used to killing out of necessity that talking about fighting in an arena doesn't have that much of an impact on him. It would just be another obstacle that he would have to overcome to keep living.
But he had no way of knowing that he'd end up being so blase about it to someone who has literally been in an arena of some kind of hellish design. It's a good reminder that he knows absolutely nothing about the people here, including Katniss.]
...Is that what you were doing before you woke up here, then? You were in another game, like Mallick Scott was?
[It's the first thing he can think of to say, because he's not quite sure how to react to tripping the hugest mine in this field.]