She held her stance while he spoke before taking another three swings segmenting the dummy percisely before it fell away.
The words were like sandpaper against her well maintained skin, but he was absolutely right and she hated it.
"Do you remember the last time we spoke of such things back out in my home District? I was so sure of myself back then. So positive that the tributes were the problem. Now I see the truth of it. The Hunger Games have become so much more about popularity and luck that promoting the skills and intelligence of my tributes garners me almost nothing. But if I start to make up stories about who's sleeping with who or which tributes hate one another suddenly they are interested!"
It was just one of a great many issues she had with how things were being run.
"Have you ever known the pure agony of being the smartest person in a room but no one cares or bothers to even listen? Sometimes I just want to throw their expensive alcohol back in their faces and kick them into a fireplace. Maybe then they'd finally understand what true power is."
Dangerous words if she was down in the common area, but in the training hall civiliians and sponsors wouldn't be lurking. There was a very small risk of her words leaking out to the public unless the Capitol security forces made it happen.
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The words were like sandpaper against her well maintained skin, but he was absolutely right and she hated it.
"Do you remember the last time we spoke of such things back out in my home District? I was so sure of myself back then. So positive that the tributes were the problem. Now I see the truth of it. The Hunger Games have become so much more about popularity and luck that promoting the skills and intelligence of my tributes garners me almost nothing. But if I start to make up stories about who's sleeping with who or which tributes hate one another suddenly they are interested!"
It was just one of a great many issues she had with how things were being run.
"Have you ever known the pure agony of being the smartest person in a room but no one cares or bothers to even listen? Sometimes I just want to throw their expensive alcohol back in their faces and kick them into a fireplace. Maybe then they'd finally understand what true power is."
Dangerous words if she was down in the common area, but in the training hall civiliians and sponsors wouldn't be lurking. There was a very small risk of her words leaking out to the public unless the Capitol security forces made it happen.