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Cinna ([personal profile] threadthefire) wrote2010-10-23 02:30 pm

6th Design [accidental video]

[The video opens, angled strangely as if the video is accidental. Only half a face is visible - pale, sunken eyes, and a stubble'd cheek. The normally put-together Cinna looks positively taken apart. A hand comes into view, rubbing over his eyes and pinching the bridge of his nose as he begins to speak in a bitter tone.]

Bravo, City. Not even the Capitol could have conceived that little torture - after all, who better to harm us than ourselves? Who knows better what fears we harbor, sins we cover-up.

Well played. Really, well played.

[The feed ends with an angry click.]

[He sits at the kitchen table, cradling his coffee in one hand as the other casually tosses the device to the side. Taking a sip, he winces, even after several cups he's not used to the flavor without sugar and cream, but today... there's nothing comforting about today so the coffee's as black as his mood. From the moment he woke up, before the sun had even hit the horizon, he'd been sitting in this chair, contemplating his own... foolishness.

How could he ever have believed he had a grasp on what happened to those children in the arena? How could he ever have thought he could help? It was arrogance to the nth degree to have ever thought he understood. To have thought that he could help erase the scars. He should have realized sooner how deep they go.

Now with the sun several hours up, he's still hardly moved, looking out the window, more determined than ever to see the Capitol fall.

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[identity profile] protects-her.livejournal.com 2010-10-23 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
A little worse than usual. You?

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[identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com 2010-10-23 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
exhausted. that wasn't pleasant.

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[identity profile] protects-her.livejournal.com 2010-10-23 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
That's an understatement if I ever heard one.

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[identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com 2010-10-24 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
how does the city even do this?

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[identity profile] protects-her.livejournal.com 2010-10-24 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know.

It scares you too, doesn't it?

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[identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com 2010-10-24 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
the capitol has rules and punishments are known. this randomness is unnerving.

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[identity profile] protects-her.livejournal.com 2010-10-24 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
It's like life in the arena. Gamemakers pulling the strings.

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[identity profile] protects-her.livejournal.com 2010-10-24 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
You're not the one I hate.

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[identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com 2010-10-24 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
you sure i shouldn't be?

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[identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com 2010-10-25 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
thank you. need anything?

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[identity profile] protects-her.livejournal.com 2010-10-25 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Just time to put myself together again. I think I'm going to head for the beach.

Katniss and Rue got into my dreams too.

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[identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com 2010-10-25 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
i was in rue's, too

i had no idea it was that bad for you all. im sorry.

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[identity profile] protects-her.livejournal.com 2010-10-25 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's funny how they call us Victors. Sometimes I wonder what it is we really won.

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[identity profile] protects-her.livejournal.com 2010-10-25 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Out of one arena and into another.

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[identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com 2010-10-25 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
one with a chance for freedom for all of us.

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[identity profile] protects-her.livejournal.com 2010-10-25 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
One way or another.

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[identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com 2010-10-25 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
one way or another