Thicker Than Blood Start

[gamemakers]

For Tributes with keen eyes, they'll notice that Peacekeeper presence seems increased and yet infinitely more ineffective in the last few weeks. Peacekeepers seem harried, as do the Stylists, and most of the Escorts titter and plot without alerting the Tributes as to what, exactly, is so exciting. They simply say that this weekend they'll know.

And so it happens that on the weekend in question, the Tributes are woken by their Escorts early and brought to a restaurant for a hearty breakfast. The restaurant is nothing spectacular, although they seem to be trying to make an impression on the television cameras that float around. The sleepy, cranky meal goes by and then the Tributes are led back to their Suites for a mandatory meeting.

Sitting on couches and the floor, in chairs and on windowsills, standing off to the side - people from the Tributes' homes are waiting to greet them in each District Suite. Some are confused, some accepting, some frightened and some elated to see their beloved. Either way, it should be an eventful reunion.

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[medecin]

No, it is surely not hallucination, not from his end of things either. She is here, near enough to touch, to smell, and Joly wants nothing more than to pull her close to him and hold her forever,and, well, all right, he IS going to do that, why waste that moment as it is granted now? Later, it will be different, so different that the thought has him fully trembling now, but if he can simply bury himself in Musichetta for a moment, to pretend that things are otherwise.

"How is it that I...what?" he asks, surprise coloring the words at that. Dead...is he somehow dead at home then? Had their barricade, even after he had left it, lead to such as that? The idea that he will not be coming home to her for certain is painful, though not so much of a shock, really, and all that he might do is cling for a moment.

"I would not have had you sent here, to this, though I have longed to see you so very much. I simply...you are unharmed thus far?" He added quickly. "There is much here, where we are now, that..."