[ That last death gets a replay, slow-motion and from additional angles. Templesmith looks absolutely delighted. She looks between the screen and Johanna, and down at her own hands. She wasn't scared until later, when she lost her partner. That fear was temporary and she let her anger swallow her whole. Cashmere remembers more of her Games from watching the recap during her Victor's interview than it actually happening. The worst moments only come back to her in her nightmares. She remembers drowning a Six and the strange intimacy and power of feeling someone struggle and then stop. ]
I couldn't leave him. [ and that's her bit of honesty. Gloss had one very close call in his own Games and she vividly remembers her own panic, the anxiety that she would be alone forever. He won, so she had to win to keep their bond, to have enough pieces between them for a whole. She couldn't let him lose her, leave him alone in the too-big house. He would never recover. Her parents would never forgive her for being anything less than a tribute and a Victor. Any other way and she would be remembered as the lesser child. ]
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Date: 2014-12-08 07:25 am (UTC)[ That last death gets a replay, slow-motion and from additional angles. Templesmith looks absolutely delighted. She looks between the screen and Johanna, and down at her own hands. She wasn't scared until later, when she lost her partner. That fear was temporary and she let her anger swallow her whole. Cashmere remembers more of her Games from watching the recap during her Victor's interview than it actually happening. The worst moments only come back to her in her nightmares. She remembers drowning a Six and the strange intimacy and power of feeling someone struggle and then stop. ]
I couldn't leave him. [ and that's her bit of honesty. Gloss had one very close call in his own Games and she vividly remembers her own panic, the anxiety that she would be alone forever. He won, so she had to win to keep their bond, to have enough pieces between them for a whole. She couldn't let him lose her, leave him alone in the too-big house. He would never recover. Her parents would never forgive her for being anything less than a tribute and a Victor. Any other way and she would be remembered as the lesser child. ]