They never talked much about the people he'd been with in the Capitol. She'd known that what he did there was not by choice, and they'd lived with that, living on mutual trust and a lot of understanding from Annie. He'd done his best to shelter her from the worst of what the Capitol could do. Public life had always been hard on her, but there had been good things about it too.
They used to laugh, sometimes, about the things that got written about him or said about him on tv, but that hadn't been sweet like this.
"Kinda nice that they chose fish." In Panem, that wouldn't have been what they'd gone with, because in the end, being fisherfolk was the least interesting thing about them to the Capitol.
He gives her a bright grin.
"Guess we've reinvented ourselves as fish farmers."
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"That's always a start."
They never talked much about the people he'd been with in the Capitol. She'd known that what he did there was not by choice, and they'd lived with that, living on mutual trust and a lot of understanding from Annie. He'd done his best to shelter her from the worst of what the Capitol could do. Public life had always been hard on her, but there had been good things about it too.
They used to laugh, sometimes, about the things that got written about him or said about him on tv, but that hadn't been sweet like this.
"Kinda nice that they chose fish." In Panem, that wouldn't have been what they'd gone with, because in the end, being fisherfolk was the least interesting thing about them to the Capitol.
He gives her a bright grin.
"Guess we've reinvented ourselves as fish farmers."