Panem Er Circenses

Panem er Circenses

"Do you know what this means? We'll have the whole day to ourselves."

"It's too bad we can't go somewhere," I say wistfully.

"Who says we can't?" he asks.

The roof. We order a bunch of food, grab some blankets, and head up to the roof for a picnic. A daylong picnic in the flower garden that tinkles with wind chimes. We eat. We lie in the sun. I snap off hanging vines and use my newfound knowldge from training to practice knots and weave nets. Peeta sketches me. We make up a game with the force field that surrounds the roof - one of us throws an apple into it and the other person has to catch it.

No one bothers us. By late afternoon, I lie with my head on Peeta's lap, making a crown of flowers while he fiddles with my hair, claiming he's been practicing his knots. After a while, his hands go still. "What?" I ask.

"I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever," he says.

Usually this sort of comment, the kind that hints of his undying love for me, makes me feel guilty and awful. But I feel so warm and relaxed and beyond worrying about the future I'll never have, I just let the word slip out. "OK."

I can hear the smile in his voice. "Then you'll allow it?"

"I'll allow it," I say.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Vanessa Gekko got fired a day in princess Carolyn's job that she was in a decade for. 🐾

I need you

Beach scene in catching fire 💛

I realize I've never even bothered to ask her about how she's handling the shock of coming here. "So, how are you liking Thirteen, Prim?" I offer.

"Right now?" she asks. We both laugh. "I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss any more. I feel safer here. We don't have to worry about you. Well, not the same way." She pauses, and then a shy smile crosses her lips. "I think they're going to train me to be a doctor."

It's the first I've heard of it."Well, of course they are. They'd be stupid not to."

"They've been watching me when I help out in the hospital. I'm already taking medic courses. It's just beginner's stuff. I know a lot from home. Still, there's plenty to learn," she tells me.

"That's great," I say. Prim a doctor. She couldn't even dream of it in 12. Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside me. This is the sort of future a rebellion could bring.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Katniss acting petty as heck towards the Peacekeepers is hilarious ^^

As usual, my thoughts on chapters 10-12 are below the cut (I’ll post my stuff for the corresponding prompts separately this time - I had a couple of other things going on this week and I didn’t want to delay this post any further)

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