[She tries not to think about their parents. Cato's... gone. Hers... They might be dead. If they'd tried to fight either the Capitol or the new government. Or maybe they'd just adjusted, were living happily. She liked that idea better than the alternative...]
Lots of room, no money. Just getting to do whatever you want.
[It's been harder and harder not thinking of what they'd lost the more and more they'd made his proposal a reality outside of the Shift. He misses his family as much as Clove had become the next best thing (which sounded like an insult when he actually put it to words)]
We'd never hear the end of it about this.
[He doesn't say 'getting married' because it still seems so out of this world, like they're still Shifted.
[She can't quite bring herself to actually talk about Portia. Even though that's where her mind instantly goes. She was never that close with her own mother -- an Academic who never seemed to really feel the horror of the Games (Clove wonders, just sometimes, if her view changed at all watching the 74th) -- but Cato's mom...
She knows now... Cato knows now... what happened to Portia after the 75th. How everything they knew is gone.]
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[She tries not to think about their parents. Cato's... gone. Hers... They might be dead. If they'd tried to fight either the Capitol or the new government. Or maybe they'd just adjusted, were living happily. She liked that idea better than the alternative...]
Lots of room, no money. Just getting to do whatever you want.
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We'd never hear the end of it about this.
[He doesn't say 'getting married' because it still seems so out of this world, like they're still Shifted.
Cato ignores that thought because it hurts.]
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[She can't quite bring herself to actually talk about Portia. Even though that's where her mind instantly goes. She was never that close with her own mother -- an Academic who never seemed to really feel the horror of the Games (Clove wonders, just sometimes, if her view changed at all watching the 74th) -- but Cato's mom...
She knows now... Cato knows now... what happened to Portia after the 75th. How everything they knew is gone.]