Voice Testing. [Consider lastvoyages]

[districttwo]

I sign up for some cruise and I get a chance to back and finish the game? And you're trying to get Clove there so we're a team again?

[He is glossing over all of the other things his writer's saying. About how it's redemption, about how he'd be going back and possibly not want to kill Katniss Everdeen and continue the system?]

Yeah. Sure. Sign me up. Last man standing gets out of the barge alive right?

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[districttwo]

Well there's that city too. Writer says I might be going to both places. She wants to break a pattern and a habit.

I can't blame her. Habits get you killed. [long pause] that's what they say. You get a prize, you get off the ship-get a second chance at life. And you're not even a mutt.

[nevermissing]

Hmm. [She nods appreciatively.]

You're telling me. First thing we learned, never take the same path twice, alter it even slightly. You get your body used to things, you get your head used to it, get those watching you used to it. And that makes habits hard to break.

So it's full on back in the Games if you win?

[districttwo]

...She's big on corrupt peace-makers for some reason. They remind me of dad.

[Proud look] I am going to wrap my hands around Everdeen's throat and it'll be us going home.

[nevermissing]

What happened to your dad? [Corrupt peace-makers don't make her think of anything. Fathers make her think of her own, cold, calculating. Tony Stark once said she had daddy issues. That's pretty likely, all things considered.]

[It won't be them going home. It'll be her. They'll switch up the rules again and it'll be Cato vs Clove and she's prepared for it. Killing Cato would be easy.] You've got one hell of a plan there.

[districttwo]

Dad? He got caught buying bigger rations on the black market when my mother had my sister. He was whipped in the stocks.

[He is so blank about this. That's why he volunteered. To wash the stain from his family's honor. His mother had been so blank about it and his father too. His father's weakness affected all of them.

Glory would wash the stain from his family dishonor and shame and leave his name in the history books.]

He's lucky he was a peace keeper otherwise he would have been shot and good fucking riddance.

[nevermissing]

That explains a lot. [She's nonplussed about the whole thing.]

So you've got deep-seated daddy issues, then?

[districttwo]

...It's not an issue. My father's a moron who disgraced the name and the badge. He broke the rules. I win, we're back on top where we should be.

[nevermissing]

That's kinda messed up. [Clove. Look at your life. Look at your choices.] Do it for yourself and the glory. Fuck your dad.

[districttwo]

You think I care about him? Mom kicked him out and rightly so. Whole family fucking blacklisted him. He's been sent off to District 12 with the rest of the losers.

Honor of District Two. That's what matters.

[nevermissing]

Good. I can admire that in your mom.

Honor for District 2, Glory for us.

[districttwo]

[And they will share a secret smile.]

Absolutely.

[nevermissing]

[And then she'll kill him.]