"He said I was very optimistic, for a man who was going to die."
Charles does not look it now. Maybe through the world as seen by Haymitch Abernathy, or maybe he's changed. "We had joined an attempt to take the bridge of the ship, and command control. It didn't work in our favour, clearly, and we were all trapped for a while. I remember that he had an unshakeable certainty that someone was going to make the first move, and coming to the conclusion that it would have to be himself that did it. He didn't like blood baths.
"It was like watching a car crash in human form. A very slow one." Charles glances over his shoulder, deciding the steam rising off heating food is not yet smoke. "You appear faster off the mark."
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Charles does not look it now. Maybe through the world as seen by Haymitch Abernathy, or maybe he's changed. "We had joined an attempt to take the bridge of the ship, and command control. It didn't work in our favour, clearly, and we were all trapped for a while. I remember that he had an unshakeable certainty that someone was going to make the first move, and coming to the conclusion that it would have to be himself that did it. He didn't like blood baths.
"It was like watching a car crash in human form. A very slow one." Charles glances over his shoulder, deciding the steam rising off heating food is not yet smoke. "You appear faster off the mark."