"I'll ask around too, but I don't think we'll have much time before the next round. Ellie's in District One, and if you can't get a hold of Eponine I think Maximus is in her District."
Venus makes it a point to know where her connections lie. She's studied the footage of previous Never-Ending Quell Games with the same intensity she used to apply to music videos and TV shows as a teenager. Fame and notoriety were probably her only options, aside from poverty. A normal life stopped being an option to her once she had a mutant power and, worse the mutant face to match.
Funny, how little it matters here that she could be anyone, that her face says nothing more than that she's a young woman with a wide nose and high eyebrows, long lashes and lips with dips of pink in the middle. The memory of the greatest concern she had without a human body is not even an afterthought to her these days.
"I don't know that there's anyone in the other Districts I could ask for input, though. I haven't made myself the most beloved person with the other Tributes here."
She wishes she could pull closer - wishes she were certain of the consequences if she did. But she doesn't. That she killed him once, and that they have been so fundamentally at odds throughout the Games, raises a higher barrier than even the uncertainty between them.
She turns her eyes instead back to the sky. "Big finale..."
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Venus makes it a point to know where her connections lie. She's studied the footage of previous Never-Ending Quell Games with the same intensity she used to apply to music videos and TV shows as a teenager. Fame and notoriety were probably her only options, aside from poverty. A normal life stopped being an option to her once she had a mutant power and, worse the mutant face to match.
Funny, how little it matters here that she could be anyone, that her face says nothing more than that she's a young woman with a wide nose and high eyebrows, long lashes and lips with dips of pink in the middle. The memory of the greatest concern she had without a human body is not even an afterthought to her these days.
"I don't know that there's anyone in the other Districts I could ask for input, though. I haven't made myself the most beloved person with the other Tributes here."
She wishes she could pull closer - wishes she were certain of the consequences if she did. But she doesn't. That she killed him once, and that they have been so fundamentally at odds throughout the Games, raises a higher barrier than even the uncertainty between them.
She turns her eyes instead back to the sky. "Big finale..."