Headed for rekindleme. Hopefully.

[herecomesthehurt]

While I appreciate your determination, your work ethic so far hasn't inspired a lot of confidence.

[Like that barely started application that's due in less than six hours.]

Finish it or don't finish it, I guess. It's all the same to me.

[...Paine, hun, come on.

Give me something else to work with, here.]

Fine. If you want my honest opinion, I don't get why you picked this game. In case you haven't noticed, I'm not really the hugging type. But between that and some of the other places you send the people in here...well, I'm not complaining.

That's all I have to say on it. Just try not to get distracted before it's due, why don't you? That is, assuming you're really serious.

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[ensared]

[ He sees Paine's disgust and raises it pure, unadulterated loathing. But although it's difficult to explain, there's more to it than just entertainment. ]

They do it so the Districts won't rebel again. It's an annual reminder that we lost the last war. A warning for what could happen if we try it again.

And we're supposed to treat sending kids to their deaths as an honor. They expect us to watch and enjoy the show, like it's all just a... a game.

[ There's that damned word again. None of this stops him from wanting to start a revolution, though; in fact, it makes him want it even more. There's so much wrong with his world. Someone needs to change it. ]

[herecomesthehurt]

[She has to take a moment to imagine that, though she doesn't like the picture she sees when she does. She remembers what happened in the Den of Woe, and pictures how that would have looked if all the Crimson Squad members were children. If that happened over and over again, and everyone in the world could watch.

Were there really a place out there where such things happened? Where people were that brutal? Paine may not be the most optimistic person in the multiverse, but the idea was enough to unsettle even her.]

It's hard to imagine. Our old leaders used false hope to keep control. But I guess fear is just as effective.

[She can tell how disgusted he is - Gale doesn't hide it very well - but she doesn't blame him at all. Anyone who comes from such a world should be disgusted...though she imagined there were plenty of people who weren't.]

[ensared]

[ He nods grimly, looking off in a vague direction with glazed eyes. Fear was something he was all too familiar with, even if he's not fully aware of how the Capitol will use it against the Districts. His own anchor to such an awful society isn't so much out of fear, however... ]

If it weren't for my family, I would've left a long time ago.