by gloaming » Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:02 pm
Adrian waited till Alou left before sinking to the ground, head in his hands. He didn't even want to win, if this was what it was like. He glanced over at Cecil, who was sleeping restlessly. The dreams, the guilt, the pain. He didn't understand how anyone could take it. How Cecil could talk about his liking for the capitol, how Celeste could come from there, escort children every year and watch them die, how Alou could sit and talk about murdering kids so easily. He scowled punching the carpeted floor. He didn't care. He wasn't playing by the Capitols rules, "Screw them."
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“
When you are born,” the golem said
softly, “your courage is new and clean.
You are brave enough for anything:
crawling off of staircases, saying your
first words without fearing that someone
will think you are foolish, putting strange
things in your mouth. But as you get
older, your courage attracts gunk, and
crusty things, and dirt, and fear, and
knowing how bad things can get and
what pain feels like. By the time you’re
half-grown, your courage barely moves
at all, it’s so grunged up with living. So
every once in awhile, you have to scrub
it up and get the works going, or else
you’ll never be brave again.
”
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