@driftcd demanded: Stop being so modest about your achievements! | prompt.
Fifty-four was a bad year for the both of them and fifty-five isn’t looking any better.
Esra’s first year mentoring after he’d won, and the year that Kade’s family, for the most part, got swept out from underneath him. He’s never asked—he doesn’t want to ask—why sometimes there’s a baby’s cry on the winds between their houses in the Four Village. ❛ What achievements? ❜ Esra hisses on the way to the Capitol. He draws his knees tight to his chest, having laid his white suit jacket on the floor, making him look sweaty and overdressed now that it’s gone.
❛ You don’t have any, and I don’t, either. We won a fucked up reality show—and good! Good! Now we’re alive, and we have to live with ourselves. I can’t even—my brother doesn’t wanna talk to me—your sister is dead! What modesty is there to have? And we just have to watch ‘em be thrown into a tub to be butchered. How do you even pretend to feel good about yourself? You make me sick. ❜
Curling into his knees, he squeezes his face at a hard and crooked angle. He covers his ears with his hands, pressing his heels to his ear canals. ❛ I make myself sick. I don’t want to talk to you. ❜









