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[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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Date: 2010-10-25 06:14 am (UTC)
adamantined: (CRASH)
From: [personal profile] adamantined
It's an expression, but then there are probably a lot of expressions that could fit in for curses like this. Sounding them off doesn't usually make the situation any better.

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Date: 2010-10-25 06:41 am (UTC)
adamantined: (ANXIETY)
From: [personal profile] adamantined
Well there goes - Likewise.

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Date: 2010-10-25 07:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
[Cinna sucks at texting, have some audio.] I don't want you to get the wrong impression, that was sarcasm I was attempting, not an insult.

I'm still learning this City's colloquialisms.

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Date: 2010-10-25 08:03 pm (UTC)
adamantined: (BIBLIOPHILE)
From: [personal profile] adamantined
Well, I was being a brat, so... sorry about that.

There's no real colloquialism to learn, especially when something like that last curse comes around. It sucks, and it's hard, but it's all about learning how to deal with it.

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Date: 2010-10-26 04:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
How do you deal with them?

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Date: 2010-10-26 05:42 am (UTC)
adamantined: (Default)
From: [personal profile] adamantined
Distraction, mostly. But that's just me. I'm sure there's someone out there who'd probably say that was unhealthy.

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Date: 2010-10-26 11:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
Don't underestimate the power of distraction.

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Date: 2010-10-26 11:57 pm (UTC)
adamantined: (FROST)
From: [personal profile] adamantined
Is that your tried and true method of dealing with things?

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Date: 2010-10-27 12:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
Not really, but I know an entire government that uses it quite well to keep some of its citizens from asking too many questions.

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Date: 2010-10-27 12:06 am (UTC)
adamantined: (COSMOPOLITAN)
From: [personal profile] adamantined
[There's a pause. Then a hum.]

You mean every government ever?

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Date: 2010-10-27 12:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
I wouldn't know, I'm only familiar with one from home and now here.

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Date: 2010-10-27 12:19 am (UTC)
adamantined: (FODDER)
From: [personal profile] adamantined
I think it's a prerequisite to being in government. You have to learn how to distract people from the truth so that they don't start asking questions or trying to bring you down.

Some are better at it than others. Or worse about it, depending on how you want to look at it.

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Date: 2010-10-27 12:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
I'd say it comes down on the side of "worse".

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Date: 2010-10-28 04:42 am (UTC)
adamantined: (Default)
From: [personal profile] adamantined
The kind of government that you guys come from really seems to have a niche for 'worse.'

[ooc: I'm so sorry for this late reply. I don't know how I missed it, but feel free to ignore sob <333]

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Date: 2010-10-28 04:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
...that might be an understatement to some. I was one of the privileged, so my life was comfortable.

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Date: 2010-10-28 04:58 am (UTC)
adamantined: (FAITH)
From: [personal profile] adamantined
Not that I can even begin to understand, but sometimes understating things is the only real way of being able to mention them at all. Did you have some kind of free pass?

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Date: 2010-10-28 05:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
I was lucky to be born in the Capitol and posses a talent that keeps me in demand. It's those in the Districts that truly suffered.

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Date: 2010-10-28 05:06 am (UTC)
adamantined: (FROST)
From: [personal profile] adamantined
How's that talent been treating you here?

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Date: 2010-10-30 04:12 am (UTC)
adamantined: (QUEEN)
From: [personal profile] adamantined
Well enough to use it as a distraction?

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Date: 2010-10-30 04:22 am (UTC)
adamantined: (SWEPT)
From: [personal profile] adamantined
I might be able to help contribute to it, if you think you have the time.

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