She has no idea. The effect she can have.
I nod. He means there’s only one future, if I want to keep those I love alive and stay alive myself. I’ll have to marry Peeta.
THG challenge - theme #01: friendship ⇉ katniss/johanna
“What’s that?” she says hoarsely. Damp edges of her hair form little spikes over her forehead.
“I made it for you. Something to put in your drawer.” I place it in her hands. “Smell it.”
She lifts the buncle to her nose and takes a tentative sniff. “Smells like home.” Tears flood her eyes.
“To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.”
- Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games
#i love this scene #i love this boy #i love these idiots #this is gorgeous #he’s so blase about it #about completing the circle of what he expects his arc is #of managing to make a small difference to something even if not to someone #and that’s all that he will ever amount to #and just #the fact that he’s camouflaged himself as a tree #and she literally strips away the things he uses to hide himself #to make himself protected (whether physically or emotionally) #and it all gets laid bare in the cave #she pushes him to honesty #about himself and his place in the world and his relationship to people #and in turn he makes her cognizant of her own vulnerability #everything is performance until it isn’t #everything becomes revelation #the capitol may have ~made them but never doubt anything’s will to survive #characters engaged in the act of reshaping their own narrative #mirrors and reflection and revelation everywhere
#the real ot3 of this trilogy #i don’t understand how you can’t see it #katniss hunts; peeta bakes; haymitch drinks #and like #the three of them are just externally linked together #not just because haymitch is their mentor #but because all three of them have the experience of being participants in the hunger games #living through it and having to endure the horrific trauma it brought #ot3 forever man #also this photoset is fairly light hearted and my tags don’t really fit it#but WHATEVER #what is a gale
