[Even in the Malnosso-created fiction... they hadn't been free. Constrained to their roles of happy couple, a child to make sure Panem always saw them as a pair. Another expected soon, just in case.
They can't -- not for a moment -- prefer to think of you separately over apart. The words of Ariadne, whispered before the "surprise" proposal during the Victor interview. If you are ever anything less than their Golden Pair, you'll both wish you were dead.
Here... There are only shifts and drafts. Temporary disturbances to their mental states. But they don't have to watch every gesture and every word. But it could be over in a second. Cato could be gone, like Katniss's Lover Boy. Only he wouldn't be going back to the Games or back to Panem. He'd just be gone.
Clove shudders in his arms and presses further against him, forcing herself to hold the cloth steady.]
I... I'm scared. [She hates saying it. But it has to be said, doesn't it?] I'm always so scared here, Cato.
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They can't -- not for a moment -- prefer to think of you separately over apart. The words of Ariadne, whispered before the "surprise" proposal during the Victor interview. If you are ever anything less than their Golden Pair, you'll both wish you were dead.
Here... There are only shifts and drafts. Temporary disturbances to their mental states. But they don't have to watch every gesture and every word. But it could be over in a second. Cato could be gone, like Katniss's Lover Boy. Only he wouldn't be going back to the Games or back to Panem. He'd just be gone.
Clove shudders in his arms and presses further against him, forcing herself to hold the cloth steady.]
I... I'm scared. [She hates saying it. But it has to be said, doesn't it?] I'm always so scared here, Cato.