Intellect

The Peacekeepers are mighty active this morning, wonder what they’re looking for…

I heard rumors of whistling and mockingjays.... How interesting.

I don’t know.. But you’re the smart one here. Are you sure?

You don't need to be worrying about them right now, you should worry about yourself. 

That’s not okay. It’s not. Lyds, do something about it.

Do something about it? Like what? I'm stuck here just like you are. Adrien, just.... They'll be fine, okay? 

Shit. What happened in Three?

Riots.

Lydia, please!

Why?

I understand. I only needed one of you and if you’re willing to help me out I’ve got no reason to ask him. This is between you, me, and the person with the plan, deal? 

Good, we have a deal.

But it’s a really pretty please.

No.

Pretty please?

The physical appearance of the please is not changing my mind.

Alright… well, I won’t give up any names. I think… that with the stuff going on here though that it’s worth trying to do something. We won the Games, we were supposed to have already dealt with the worst of it and here we are dealing with this bullshit again. Except this time we don’t get to kill the enemy. So I say we give them a run for their money. 

...It's manageable. I could probably code the system in my sleep, really. But listen, if I'm going to do this, you have to leave Bug out of it. He knows absolutely nothing, do you understand?

Listen, I know you don’t owe me any favors… but I was wondering if you might want to help me out. Someone, who I’ve been asked not to name, gave me an idea on how we might get back at the Peacekeepers and after the Clyde business and what happened to Apple and myself I’m feeling like a bit of revenge. ‘Course, the trouble is that I need someone techy to help me out and I was hoping you might have enough of a problem with the way they’ve been treating us lately to help out. No one needs to know it was you, if we get caught I take the blame I swear. You want in?

There are serious flaws in this plan already, namely that the Capitol would not be naive enough to believe you could do this without any technical assistance, immediately incriminating myself and others who possess talents similar to my own....But I suppose I could consider it. I certainly have plenty of room on my workbench after their last visit. Explain and then I'll make my final decision. If I elect not to be involved, I won't be alerting any Peacekeepers to the plot.

HEY BUG AND LYDIA!

What do you want, Ares?

Just because you can survive ten days without sleep, doesn’t mean you should do it. Besides, if you’re going to keep going like this, you’ll probably screw some of your stuff up because you’re not thinking straight, because you haven’t slept.

I never said I was going to. I just want to finish this project and then I'll sleep. Satisfied?

—-Lyds, I really think you could use some sleep.

People can survive ten days without REM sleep, two are not going to kill me. I am an adult, I can make my own decisions.