on V-day backlash (and a peeta) at scorched

[istheseus]

I'm not going to apologize to them. Any of them. [ That would require speaking to them at all in the first place. ]

You can do it - it's your fault. And you can explain everything to Peeta when he gets here, because I'm just -...I'm not.

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And she gets a free pass for everything, right?

[istheseus]

[ Peeta... Really, boy, you're getting ahead of yourself. Just because she said there's no Capitol doesn't mean there's no government - it just means it's not like theirs. The same way all those knights and kings and princes run their governments and are nothing like Snow, and the only Snow she knows is at the bottom if the political power food chain, and not all that bad - ]

[ - but let's not think about Jon. Let's think about how glad she is that she was here first so she can horribly explain these things. At least Peeta won't go in blind, and it's not all bad news she has to impart. ]

N...o, there are leaders. But they're children, from what I hear, and don't ever leave their home. They don't care about what happens in the city.

They don't - [ know about us; hate us; know me or what I've done - we've done. ] - care about us.

[ Isn't that wonderful? ]

ALWAYS. ANYTHING FOR YOU, KATNISS.

[paintedvictory]

[A beat. Still trying to process what he thinks of that.]

...leaders should care about their people. Really care about them. Not just pretend they do and then bleed them dry.

oh bb how has she ever survived without you. her diet has sorely lacked bread.

[istheseus]

[ She agrees. The thin line her lips press into say that loud enough. But she also shrugs a little. ]

They don't...bleed us. They leave us alone and for the most part, that works well.

too much meat is bad for you, katniss. whole grains are the future.

[paintedvictory]

Well... it isn't ideal. But it's better than the alternative.

[because he can scarcely imagine a good government.]

Lies and slander. And cheesy bread

[istheseus]

Exactly.

There's no Games there either. [ Oh. Wait. Wince. ] Not...exactly, at least.

nut and raisin bread, too! AND CAKE.

[paintedvictory]

...not exactly?

[What in the world does that mean? There are either Games or no Games, oh god.]

How can there kind of be Games?

let her eat cake!!!

[istheseus]

No one dies.

[ ...most of the time. ]