[If only. If only it stopped hurting. If only she could forget all those she lost, both here and at home. Make the pain go away. Somehow focus on the here and now, what she has instead of what she lost.
But since she lost her father - her father whose voice she can no longer remember - she clung to the memories. Clung and mourned and wished over a million times that she had been the one to die. To die in the bombings instead of her sister. In the tunnels instead of Finnick. So many good people lost their lives.
So many people have left her that she'll never see again.
This little girl's plea breaks her heart. The little girl, Elicia, that she planted strawberries with last year. She's too young to have to know this kind of pain.
It takes her a moment or two to organize her thoughts. To blink away her own tears and push aside her own sadness to focus on the girl instead. And she thinks of the painting upstairs in the studio that once was Peeta's. The painting she's ignored since he left.]
Have you tried drawing? In addition to the photographs?
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But since she lost her father - her father whose voice she can no longer remember - she clung to the memories. Clung and mourned and wished over a million times that she had been the one to die. To die in the bombings instead of her sister. In the tunnels instead of Finnick. So many good people lost their lives.
So many people have left her that she'll never see again.
This little girl's plea breaks her heart. The little girl, Elicia, that she planted strawberries with last year. She's too young to have to know this kind of pain.
It takes her a moment or two to organize her thoughts. To blink away her own tears and push aside her own sadness to focus on the girl instead. And she thinks of the painting upstairs in the studio that once was Peeta's. The painting she's ignored since he left.]
Have you tried drawing? In addition to the photographs?