This Deathless Death // [Safe]
Feb 26, 2015 19:33:40 GMT -5
Post by Baby Wessex d9b [earthling] on Feb 26, 2015 19:33:40 GMT -5
a note from the desk of
Mace Emberstatt
when you never thought that it could ever get this tough,of District Ten
that's when you feel my kind of love
He clutched the duvet beneath his chin, the length of it stretched down his back and across the paisley carpet. He'd been shivering when Opal had found him in the furnace room. Leaving the warmth behind had not been easy, but it had been necessary. He was a father, a brother, a confidant. He couldn't just fold. People needed him.
Even the ghosts.
Except Sundra Wie wasn't a ghost. She was corporeal, tongueless, but otherwise whole. She was a mystery, maybe even a discovery. How? Why? He couldn't fit the pieces of her puzzle together, and he should have called Calliope Bloom already, but he hadn't, and now he wasn't sure he could talk through the constant shivering. His teeth clattered as he stepped to the full sized window overlooking the Capitol. All of Panem stretched at his feet, but he was no more their King than they his subjects.
In the end, he was just a crownless boy clinging to a quilted cape.
For a time, even knowing she was there at his side, Mace let himself shiver. For a time, it was so quiet, the world an endless sea of white. For a time, bent over the Longsword of Charas, he had mourned them.
He stirred. "I don't even know what's real. I can't tell if I'm actually h-here," he said, a shiver breaking through the final word. "And if it is real, I ain't got no understanding of why the torture just goes on and on. What do they want from me?"
His face pinched, eyes squinting to hold back tears. Deep down, Mace knew exactly what the Capitol wanted: absolutely subservience. He'd just never been very good at obeying.
Even the ghosts.
Except Sundra Wie wasn't a ghost. She was corporeal, tongueless, but otherwise whole. She was a mystery, maybe even a discovery. How? Why? He couldn't fit the pieces of her puzzle together, and he should have called Calliope Bloom already, but he hadn't, and now he wasn't sure he could talk through the constant shivering. His teeth clattered as he stepped to the full sized window overlooking the Capitol. All of Panem stretched at his feet, but he was no more their King than they his subjects.
In the end, he was just a crownless boy clinging to a quilted cape.
For a time, even knowing she was there at his side, Mace let himself shiver. For a time, it was so quiet, the world an endless sea of white. For a time, bent over the Longsword of Charas, he had mourned them.
He stirred. "I don't even know what's real. I can't tell if I'm actually h-here," he said, a shiver breaking through the final word. "And if it is real, I ain't got no understanding of why the torture just goes on and on. What do they want from me?"
His face pinched, eyes squinting to hold back tears. Deep down, Mace knew exactly what the Capitol wanted: absolutely subservience. He'd just never been very good at obeying.