"Don't have to imagine it. That's what we are, now."
She knows what he actually means, what if we'd just been fisherfolk without all that Career and Games bullshit. Sometimes, she wonders it, too. But it's a nice day, so far, and while their mutual bitterness never leaves - probably can never leave - his statement is treading too close to the water for comfort. What if they'd stayed in their District, in their fishery. What if they'd been normal. What if they'd never killed. What if, what if, what if.
It's all been washed out to sea at this point and she doesn't want to go swimming today.
"Don't have to fix engines, but still gotta gut and clean fish."
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"Don't have to imagine it. That's what we are, now."
She knows what he actually means, what if we'd just been fisherfolk without all that Career and Games bullshit. Sometimes, she wonders it, too. But it's a nice day, so far, and while their mutual bitterness never leaves - probably can never leave - his statement is treading too close to the water for comfort. What if they'd stayed in their District, in their fishery. What if they'd been normal. What if they'd never killed. What if, what if, what if.
It's all been washed out to sea at this point and she doesn't want to go swimming today.
"Don't have to fix engines, but still gotta gut and clean fish."