To: Alicia (stylish) From: Santa Fandom/Game: Colosseum + HG Mockingjay Part 1 Characters: Marcus and Pecan Summary: mockingjay part 1 feels Warnings/Rating: nothing
In thirty years they had weathered (worn) through every range of emotion, but surprise was however uncommon, however inconceivable, however inconsequential. Surprise was a pair of too familiar eyes in a hotel lobby, a boy from Six's carnivorous bite, dual Victors of the 74th Games.
Surprise was Finnick's likeness broadcast (too) live, bathed in a sea of too sweet roses.
Surprise was a phone ring, a welcome distraction from a too riveting dialogue about horrors neither whispered nor cried over. Surprise was the steady beat of a breathing heart, a phone line that carried only whispers of life.
Ghosts never lie, the breathing says. The dead can't speak (the breathing stops).