#int: fulvia

[pvnem]

"you can't be here if you're not gonna be part of the meeting," she says with a clipped tone ( and a not so friendly smile ). if it were anyone else, fulvia would have said 'if plutarch didn't ask for you' and she was sure that would've been the end of it. but she's seen the strange affinity he and proserpina seemed to have for one another. she wouldn't be surprised — just annoyed — if she got a free pass to sit in even without pitching in. "it'll be a while before it starts and the others actually come in, but i'm here to get things in order. so you can stay now but you'll have to leave." fulvia pauses, turning to her with her brows raised. "are you part of the meeting?"

@prettyasaprosie ! starter call.

[ingenuitycfchacs]

arachne seemed to regard the question for a long moment. what did she think of this? all of this? victors children and cousins and newphews and nieces going into the arena in the same year katniss and peeta's child turned twelve? she gave a shrug to the question, her first response, before speaking, "just a very sad coincidence." she muttered. "even sadder that they are allowing the victors to go with. so many will die." she wasn't close to many of them, not having taken the opportunity to attempt to befriend many in the past five years. however, one of the few victors she was friends with was being effected and she didn't like it. "thinking anything else would be treason. i enjoy my life," as haunted and miserable as she could be, "too much to think anything else about it all."

is  there  anyone  left  who  thinks  it  was  a  coincidence  ?  katniss  everdeen's  child  turns  twelve  years  old  and  suddenly  the  tributes  are  all  related  to  the  victors  .  a  break  in  the  rules  ,  a  glitch  ,  something  improvised  by  plutarch  to  get  the  girl  on  fire  the  hell  out  of  this  place  and  into  thirteen  where  she  can  be  used  for  whatever  the  hell  it  is  they  have  planned  .  fulvia  isn't  granted  access  to  all  of  that  ,  but  they  know  enough  ,  they  know  that  president  coin  is  willing  to  do  anything  to  bring  panem  to  its  knees  .  "  sure  ,  it's  all  a  coincidence  .  "  they  nod  ,  a  slight  shrug  of  their  shoulders  .  the  fact  is  that  no  one  is  as  stupid  as  snow  thinks  they  are  ,  and  no  one  truly  believes  that  this  wasn't  planned  .  "  what  do  you  think  of  it  all  ?  "

[ingenuitycfchacs]

"exactly." arachne returned, almost ready to leave it alone. but then they spoke, alluding that perhaps this wasn't the coincidence the capitol seemed to try to make it seem and they had arachne's attention again. she quirked a brow, intrigue written across her features. "it's not a quell, so why would they think to do this? it's just a coincidence right?" her tone was incredulous, unbelieving, though she'd heard the questions of it not being a coincidence. she wasn't naive. she heard the whispers of rebellion around the capitol, but at the same time she knew better than to express anything. to think against the capitol was a death sentence. she'd fought to hard to survive, sacrificed to survive. she wouldn't throw it away on a rebellious fancy.

"  never  ,  "  they  muse  ,  head  nodding  sagely  .  fulvia  does  not  fight  hard  to  keep  her  position  hidden  ,  she  doesn't  have  to  .  a  cardew  spends  their  life  in  atonement  ,  on  hands  and  knees  before  president  snow  —  she  is  forever  a  nothing  .  why  look  at  someone  like  them  with  scrutiny  when  the  real  danger  is  below  his  nose  ?  "  i  wonder  why  they  hadn't  thought  of  this  before  .  "  dangerous  words  ,  treasonous  words  ,  the  insinuation  that  this  was  anything  but  a  sad  coincidence  .