glitterrosseau:
Whatever Glitter was expecting the girl to say, none of it was that. Her chest felt tight as she looked at the girl, her expression morphing from one of confusion to one of heartbreak quickly. Glitter could feel her throat getting thick as emotion threatened to overwhelm her.
Silver.
This girl was far too young to know about Silver and from an outer district. She couldn’t know that story. She couldn’t know her daughter’s middle name. “Who told you this?” she asked, a sharp edge to her tone while she struggled to keep her emotions bottled up. Glitter didn’t think about Silver as much anymore. She missed him, but she’d long since come to terms with his death. Deep down she knew it was the Capitol’s fault not her own, but it still hurt.
“This isn’t very funny, not at all.” Surely someone had told her this. There was no other way she could know. Someone had decided to play a very sick prank on Glitter and whoever it was would have fury rained down on them like they wouldn’t believe.
Glitter was just glad she was sitting. She wasn’t sure that her legs would hold her if she tried to stand up, despite how much part of her wanted to walk away, never to think about it again.
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Ellery watched Glitter a moment but at least she wasn’t angry like the man had been earlier. “Look, you won’t believe anything I say.” She could talk to spirits was an easy explanation but no one ever believed her. It was why her family was still shunned and harassed back home. “But no one told me here. At least no one in the land of the living.” It was crazy but her grandmother had told her truth was always the best plan and Ellery wasn’t much of a liar anyhow.
Ellery gathered up her cards and pulled one out at random. The World. “New chapters often are disguised as old ones closing.” She said with a shrug as she put the card back in the deck because without pulling more cards she couldn’t know what was ahead for this Victor.
“I am sorry I upset you, would you like me to leave?”












