silver, district two | fin cb

You think it's better to keep your distance. To push your feelings so far down inside that you can act like they aren't there simmering like shadows beneath the surface. Sometimes it feels like you're suffocating underneath the weight of it all. You know their names and you know their faces, but you don't know them, and you tell yourself that it's easier that way. Because when they're standing in front of you in the pit, with a sword gripped tightly in their hands, and the only thing on their mind is that you need to die for them to live - it'll be easier to stab them in the heart and watch the life bleed from their eyes. There was no point in hearing their stories from before this place, in knowing what makes their heart swell, in becoming friends just to kill them. Just to throw it all away with a quick swipe of a blade. So, yeah, you keep your mouth shut and the door to your heart locked because opening it is the quickest way to breaking it.