Neith Reed | Avox {CBD 2/3} FIN

[googlefont="Audiowide:400"]Neith Reed
Narration
"I Speak"
"They Speak"
Thoughts
Other

I love him. I love him more than anything else in the entire world, but they won't let me be with him. My parents had it arranged that I was to marry someone else. My father did not agree to me marrying Evander, meaning that there was nothing I could do. It was out of my control. Or, at least, I thought it was, until my love of seven years suggested we leave. Leaving the lavish life of the Capitol may not have been appealing to most, but for us, it was the only option. We ran away together, hoping never to return.

Then there was the day we were caught.

I had told Evander that I was nervous before we left, but I put my trust in him and fled with him. Even though we were discovered and rid of our tongues when it happened, I still love him. I still trust him. It used to be that I trusted his every word, but now, neither or us have any words that we can speak. At the age of thirty, it's oftentimes difficult to live this way. Instead of being the one to order the avoxes around, I am the avox who's being told what to do. Even children of the Capitol can instruct me and I'm not allowed to fight back.

I don't, however, regret one bit of it. Those few weeks of freedom before our capture were worth it. Those few weeks of bliss. Those few weeks of togetherness.