Velluto

“The way she tosses Wellie's head aside with no regard or compassion for her even in death. Helps, too, to see a smear of chocolate high on her cheekbone where she must have wiped the tears away last night during our one-sided truce. And finally, it helps when she says, ‘I will be the one to honour the Capitol!’”

The way she 'tosses' Wellie's head is obviously so horrific and just shows how desensitised she has become to the violence of the games, emphasised even more by Haymitch's note of Wellie's "child-sized boots" just before this. Then the focus on the chocolate smeared across her cheek - a remnant of the compassion shown by Haymitch the night before when she had her moment of vulnerability, when the walls came down long enough to remind us that she's a Career, but she is also a child who is terrified. The chocolate across her cheek - given to her by another District child who the Capitol has told her is her enemy while the Capitol itself is the one who put them there to begin with, put 48 of them in there to fight it out, and 1,176 other children before them. Still, she is so brainwashed from years and years of Capitol propaganda, she can only recite what she has been trained for. "I will be the one to honour the Capitol!"

That scene where Silka is all alone, finds the tree Haymitch and Wellie are in, and just sits there and cries. That moment of solidarity when Haymitch drops the chocolate down to her. That reminder that they are all just kids who are either brainwashed or forced to be violent.

most inspired i have felt in weeks