Day After the Tea Party, Roof (@favathornewoodâ)
Their suite doesnât feel safe anymore, but thereâs always the roof. The wind, taking away their words before they can be overheard. Keeping them safe.
The roof makes them think of their Games, just last year. Being up here with Fava, talking without fear of being overheard, feeling like they were truly seeing each other for the first time. Theyâd felt desperate for it, then: something real for them to hold onto, take with them into the Games. One last good memory.
Theyâre still here, though, and it still feels just as necessary. That Fava sees them, and they see her.
Hudson has been put in front of the Capitol cameras so many times since their first Tribute interview a year ago. Each time, theyâve played the part: Tribute, Victor, Lover. But this time itâs different: itâs not for them, and itâs not that will be pay the price if they mess up. Itâs Wren and Gage.
But, just as they did last year, they feel so small when faced with the Capitol. Like nothing they say or do can change whatâs to come. But they still tried thenâmade a confession to Caesar Flickerman that Fava hadnât known about, that had made her so angry at the timeâand theyâre not giving up now.
Only this time, theyâre not alone.
âWe should make a plan for the interviews.â They say, knowing that Fava must be thinking the same thing. Remembering, too. With a poor attempt at a smile in the face of whatâs to come, they add: âI promise there wonât be any surprises this timeâat least, not from me.â
















