#alder-reid

[fortyloves]

“so, did you have any tributes left, or.. ??” the change of colour had thrown orpheus off; he hadn’t the energy to care for many tributes beyond everett, but now that they’d all changed colour ?? they might as well start over entirely and orpheus doubted he would’ve noticed.

@alder-reid​

[marinobyssus]

@alder-reid​

There was something to be said about your last word being someone else’s name. He could have made his final stand against the Capitol. Could have said a much-needed goodbye to his mother. Could have said just about anything else to save him the embarrassment. Alder was what he said instead. Marino would have crawled out of his skin then and there if it meant never owning up to those words.  It was Alder who had seen Marino at his most vulnerable, but the wound was still too fresh to rip the band aid off just yet. He didn’t really know if it was ever going to heal. 

He wanted to tell Alder thank you. There were too many things for Marino to tell him, but thank you would be a good start. That he stayed up until the very end even when all Marino did was run away. It would have been so simple. All he had to do was show an inch of gratitude. 

“Your clone isn’t as pretty as I remember it,” he teased, giving Alder a once over. He’d seen his friend at the brink of death and took comfort in knowing that he didn’t die alone. Now all they would have to do was find Memphis amidst the chaos in the tower. 

[fortyloves]

@alder-reid​

orpheus really shouldn’t have been on the seventh floor. hell, being anywhere but the second floor or the roof made people look at him funnily - it was an oddity, after all. but being on the floor of the victor that had killed everett, and in fact, actively hurrying towards what orpheus thought was his room certainly got him some looks from avoxes trying to scurry out of the way. he paused a moment short of basically kicking the door down, knocked as politely as he could instead ( which wasn’t polite, or relaxed for that matter, it was an incessant, miserable tapping ). “alder reid !!” he exclaimed, a certain desperation in his voice. “you’re coming up to the roof with me, let’s go.”