The balance of power in the alliance shifted yet again, and Clove found herself the one on the run.
When they re-encountered one another, Katniss volunteered to help Clove set her hand to rights. Katniss looked at the way Clove's hand moved. "You'll have to keep out of range for a day while..."
"Why?" Clove asked her. "Why are you doing this? So viewers will sponsor you?"
Katniss made a noise that told Clove exactly what the 12-er thought of that theory.
"Do you know why I use a knife?" Clove asked Katniss as the sun went down. After the next cannonfire, and after Katniss indicated a desire to hear this, Clove said, "I was not brought up to be a Career. I was brought up for a career in the arts - if your aim is off, if you can't gauge distance, they smash of your fingers every year. If you can't throw, you die." Using a knife isn't that different, really. Otherwise I would have been dead less than 12 hours after this Hunger Games began."I'm the first in my family in 70 years to be
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Thank you so much! The choice you made with Clove not being brought up as a Career (but showing that a career in the arts still had such strict training) was so interesting. :)
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that's my hunch :)
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AU. Movieverse.
The balance of power in the alliance shifted yet again, and Clove found herself the one on the run.
When they re-encountered one another, Katniss volunteered to help Clove set her hand to rights. Katniss looked at the way Clove's hand moved. "You'll have to keep out of range for a day while..."
"Why?" Clove asked her. "Why are you doing this? So viewers will sponsor you?"
Katniss made a noise that told Clove exactly what the 12-er thought of that theory.
"Do you know why I use a knife?" Clove asked Katniss as the sun went down. After the next cannonfire, and after Katniss indicated a desire to hear this, Clove said, "I was not brought up to be a Career. I was brought up for a career in the arts - if your aim is off, if you can't gauge distance, they smash of your fingers every year. If you can't throw, you die." Using a knife isn't that different, really. Otherwise I would have been dead less than 12 hours after this Hunger Games began."I'm the first in my family in 70 years to be ( ... )
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I got the idea for the arts...from real samuri (flower arranging is as much a part of martial arts as swinging a sword)
thank you for the response.
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