The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) (The Hunger Games)

but she had a sweetness, a vulnerability that invited abuse.

but he found having his own weapon made him feel safer. More powerful.

His girl. His love. His Lucy Gray

After all the weeks of fear and yearning and uncertainty, he would wrap her in his arms and never let her go.

He launched off his bunk, landed shakily on the painted concrete floor, and flung his arms around the newcomer.

Sejanus embraced him.

“Is this bunk taken?”

Coriolanus twisted around on the bed, his eyes flying open to confirm what his ears already knew. Standing in the doorway, looking oddly at home in a set of fatigues still creased from the package, stood Sejanus Plinth.

His life, tragic and pointless, unspooled before him.

I just wanted to get something off to remind you how much you are loved and missed. I know how hard things must be, but don’t lose hope. It has sustained us through the darkest of times and will do so now.

The thought of Lucy Gray tormented him