If there was something that brought comfort to Augustus, it was Swann's fire to defend her origins and her children's right to not be shunned. But she was right: old disputes survived the Dark Times and into their previous golden age, they can sure as hell come back. It was in their blood to dispute and Capitolites were put in Panem to make sure that peace and prosperity. Never mind that the Capitol enforced the conflicts, they were necessary as the Hunger Games were.
"Let them try. I give it another five more years and they'll come up with something familiar," he said with some strength in his voice. "They claim t' be above us but they ain't foolin' no one. They've got the itch to fight, we're just the patsies."
The guard doesn't waver in his position, he was used to Sinclair's own disparaging comments about the new order. Didn't help none that he was from District 10, a District that long suffered under the old ways. He doesn't lie to his children now spared from the reapings, but he silently wondered if Swann and Augustus' pretenses would hold up as the peaceful regime continued.
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"Let them try. I give it another five more years and they'll come up with something familiar," he said with some strength in his voice. "They claim t' be above us but they ain't foolin' no one. They've got the itch to fight, we're just the patsies."
The guard doesn't waver in his position, he was used to Sinclair's own disparaging comments about the new order. Didn't help none that he was from District 10, a District that long suffered under the old ways. He doesn't lie to his children now spared from the reapings, but he silently wondered if Swann and Augustus' pretenses would hold up as the peaceful regime continued.