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Clove ([personal profile] shenevermisses) wrote2014-08-19 12:09 pm

27th Throw - [ written - private from Cato ]

[The arguing with Cato has been... difficult. So has trying to get her head on right. The last draft reminded her what she's good at, but it also reminded her that she's only good at that.

Doing a bit of cleaning and organizing? Meant she found a stuffed bear and picture she'd hidden a long time ago. A picture from the world in which she and Cato won the Games and were crowned co-Victors.

Where she had a baby girl.]


I always wanted kids.

That was my plan at the Academy, actually. Before the Reaping.

I was going to graduate, take over my dad's job as foreman of the marble quarry near our village, get married, and have kids. I always wanted at least two. A boy and a girl.

A couple shifts here gave me part of that.

I hadn't died in my world, and I had a daughter.

[A pause, and she writes a correction.]

We hadn't died. We had a daughter.

Just before I left my District, my mom found out she was pregnant. I went home that weekend to see my parents, and they were getting along better than ever. They actually seemed to like being around each other.

Maybe kids help.

[Maybe kids would help.]
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[personal profile] layersoflies 2014-08-21 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
You know what is also a funny thing? The false-consensus effect, overestimating the extent of a person's beliefs and opinions and assuming that they should be typical of your own. Should I have offered my opinion based on the views of your society, I think that might be tricky to do considering I've never been to your District Twelve. So I can only base my opinions and thoughts on my own environment.

I also didn't take what I said out of context and turn it into something it wasn't.