[Locked from Prim and Rue]

[tributed]

Less than 48 hours.



Great.

Comments

[tributed]

There was. And we lost. So they did this us as punishment.

[grancenturio.livejournal.com]

It certainly sounds demoralizing. My sympathies.

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It's my fourth Reaping. I'm used to the fear. It's my little sister I'm worried about. It's her first year.

[grancenturio.livejournal.com]

Were you ever chosen?

[tributed]

I'd be dead if I had been chosen. And if you win you don't ever have to be in the Reaping again.

[grancenturio.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that's small consolation to the winner.

[tributed]

Not really. Then you have to mentor the people chosen next year and hope they don't die. And even if your tributes win only one of them can win so you still lose.

no one actually ever wins the games.

[grancenturio.livejournal.com]

There will be another rebellion, one day. I can't say whether it will be tomorrow or in a thousand years, but inevitably someone will try to stop such things from happening. And after enough time, one of them will succeed.

This is also small consolation to you, and I apologize. My gifts as a prophet are weak across worlds, and most of what I have to rely on is experience.

[tributed]

Thanks. But I just want to make sure my sister survives to her eighteenth birthday.

[grancenturio.livejournal.com]

That, unfortunately, I cannot predict.

[tributed]

Guess I'll have to just keep working at it then.

[grancenturio.livejournal.com]

Good luck.