wicked people | {outlanders}
Feb 6, 2016 6:30:58 GMT -5
Post by umber vivuus 12b 🥀 [dars] on Feb 6, 2016 6:30:58 GMT -5
"and falling doesn't sound so bad when the air's this thin. i'll wash away my mistakes and start to climb again." |
{ they fill with fire
exhale desire
i know it's dire,
my time today ;
exhale desire
i know it's dire,
my time today ;
A lone thought was home in Dane Allore's mind that day:
"Is this punishment our own, or the generations before us?"
He nor anyone he knew had been around for the dark days, and yet the one thing he knew he had always shared with others was a chronic case of fear: What if it's me? What if it's someone I love?
What if it's someone I need?
He was free. The gates had opened and he was set to escape the prison of hearing his name announced in the heart of his town. How unfortunate that it ended up being his lips that had spoken it.
The amount of people who had said it since were mostly strangers: Blue, in his syrupy voice, the Capitol residents just trying to be louder than the people to their left and right: He knew none of them.
Noelia.
He didn't know her, either, but he was growing quite concerned with the ideas he kept getting about killing himself trying to save her. Dane was never a soul worth saving, anyway, which was why he would usually live on a lone philosophy:
"Every man for himself."
Saffron told him that was a stupid idea. Allies. Every victor in the last twenty or so games had them, and he was sure they had helped, but he also bet everything to his name that their memory did more bad good. He imagined Saffron's games, when she was forced to kill her closest ally. She was still just a kid, and she had known when the time came that life trumped love.
He hated the possibility that he might not be able to do what she did, or what Mace did, or any of them.
Still, he promised them he'd help after Kieran pointed out that, "You don't have to like them to let them help."
He surveyed his options: Careers, absolutely not. He didn't exactly enjoy the idea of allying with a psychopath with a god complex trained in the safety of those pretty white rooms how to become perfect killers.
Most of the lower districts were no better, though. It figured that the one year District Eleven got tiny tributes who would have been lucky to escape a place like this was the year he'd gone and offered himself up for slaughter.
The boy from Twelve: definitely not. He'd heard two things about him, and neither was impressive. His name was Lemon Cake, (which was entirely too unfortunate,) and he had no idea what he was doing.
The girl from Twelve, though... she was interesting. Kieran had mentioned that she came from a big family back in the coal district. ("They took up practically half the square every year. It's surprising none of them were reaped sooner.
Mom never let me go anywhere near their side of town. Said it was dangerous.")
Good.
Dane could handle danger, so long as it didn't mean spending years of one's life taking classes about different ways to kill a person with different weapons.
He walked over to her and hefted up a pitchfork.
"Twelve, yeah?"
She was lanky and mostly covered by a thick curtain of sleek black hair. What wasn't covered by her hair was covered by a fur coat. He ran his free hand across the back of his neck to make sure and, yes, it was definitely too hot to be wearing a fur coat.
He guessed it wasn't for the warmth, though.
"Digging the coat. You kill that yourself?"
{ sometimes quiet is violent
i find it hard to hide it
my pride is no longer in sight
it's on my sleeve, my skin will scream ;
i find it hard to hide it
my pride is no longer in sight
it's on my sleeve, my skin will scream ;
. . .
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DANE ALLORE
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