Because it was easier to talk about this stupid outfit. This one. stupid. insignificant. detail. than it was to go into everything else spinning in her mind. She couldn't even discern those thoughts.
...thoughts of Cato and Thresh and hunger and cold and fire and stings and blood...
No. What she could think about was this costume.]
It was made for me. [A sob after she speaks, and her head shakes a couple times, sharply trying to get rid of all the images she keeps conjuring.] Perfect fit. Designed to make me look my very best. Like a goddess, he told me. [More tears, a duck of her head to hide them. God, this is so stupid.] And it doesn't fit right.
[She laughs again, the sound shaking her shoulders. She coughs against the tears.]
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Because it was easier to talk about this stupid outfit. This one. stupid. insignificant. detail. than it was to go into everything else spinning in her mind. She couldn't even discern those thoughts.
...thoughts of Cato and Thresh and hunger and cold and fire and stings and blood...
No. What she could think about was this costume.]
It was made for me. [A sob after she speaks, and her head shakes a couple times, sharply trying to get rid of all the images she keeps conjuring.] Perfect fit. Designed to make me look my very best. Like a goddess, he told me. [More tears, a duck of her head to hide them. God, this is so stupid.] And it doesn't fit right.
[She laughs again, the sound shaking her shoulders. She coughs against the tears.]
S-sorry. This is... so stupid. I'm fine.