shenevermisses | 19th Throw

Okay.

[She's decided that saying it to the village at large is a better idea than writing it. This way, she can't change her mind a hundred times then put it off and either not do it or totally rush it.]

I... don't know the customs around here, so I'm just going to announce it.

For anyone hearing this who doesn't know me-- my name's Clove.

Um. In a little while. On the twenty-third of October, actually. Cato and I are getting married.

I don't know how weddings work here or where you're all from. I know things can be pretty different. Where we're from -- District Two of Panem -- the wedding itself is a pretty quiet thing. Little ceremony, short vows. That being said, we do need someone to officiate. I don't know who that would be, here. If someone could help with that... I'd appreciate it. A lot. I know someone mentioned it a little while ago. So, yeah. That'd really help.

After the ceremony, we have a meal. Where I'm from, it's a big thing, but it's casual. We'll have lots of food and anyone who wants to come is invited. If you know us, if you don't, whatever. Everyone is welcome. Come, eat, mingle. Really, it's as simple as that.

So. Yeah. Thank you for your time.

[And for the opportunity to make this announcement.]

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It's like ne'er-do-welling and shillyshallying, but with fewer donkeys.

...I don't think I understand what you think I should be doing.

Which is exactly why you need me to teach you, lass.

Except you can't tell me what you'd be teaching me.

Gallivantery.

[Yes -- we all knew they would eventually end up back here.]

...As I said, I will be getting married on October twenty-third.

An auspicious date! I believe that's the feast-day of Saint Elmira DeFonzio.

Italian. Ish.

The feast-day of what?

Saint Elmira Defonzio. She's the patroness of dishes cooked in olive oil, if I recall.

....

Or I might be confusing her with Saint Dennis Dalyrimple. He was fond of a fresh bowl of aioli with nine-grain bread dipped in. Dash of crushed red pepper on top. Then he'd save the leftovers for toast in the morning, if "Cosgrove's Lives of the Saints" can be believed.

[Spoilers: it can't.]

Edited 2013-09-10 01:04 (UTC)

So saints are people. Who... are known for something?

For bein' all good and holy and perfect and such! You know not of the saints?

[Raised by an Irish dad? You learn about saints, albeit through odd channels.]

On their feast days you light a candle and get drunk.

I've never heard of them before this.

So you're a heathen, then.

[He's mentally going over his experiences at heathen weddings. They are many and blurry.]

I guess. [She certainly can't argue that she isn't. When she doesn't know what it means at all.]

Then you're probably MUCH more fun than I'd hitherto thought.

[Unless she's the cannibal kind. Those kind are only fun to a certain point.]

Whom are you wedding, darling?

His name's Cato.

We knew each other back home in District Two.

So he's a Roman.

[This was getting more and more interesting.]

Childhood sweethearts.

A Roman? [Well, they weren't exactly childhood sweethearts, but... probably no one here would really get what they were, so she'll let that pass.]

A Republican, by the sound of it. I wish you all the best with it, darling. Certainly you will both be very happy indeed after all the bells have rung and the last of the guests has been trundled off home in a cart.

[Wait. Wait. She's placed it now.]

The Romans. They had the gladiators, right? [She knew it sounded familiar.] Cat isn't a Roman. Though he could have been. He fights as well as one -- a gladiator, I mean.

[Oh HO a gladiatorial wedding, was it?!]

You'd best rein him in during the festivities, then, or no one will escape without buttercream smeared across their finery!

[Trust him on this.]

I hope there won't be a need for him to be fighting at the wedding.

[But if there is, then, well. There will be a sword. And knives.]

I suppose that depends upon the guest list. Who's invited?

Everyone is welcome. There'll be plenty of food.

If there's drink, I might see you there myself, darling!

[Because free wedding drinks. Yes.]

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