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xxiii. dictated

Spike
He came home.

What terrible months we have seen, before even the dog days arrive!

I say we put an end to it, at once. The Castle drinks our joys as greedily as it feeds on our sorrows; we might show it that happiness is what we seek. Happiness beyond bound, which we would gladly offer as payment for our borrowed time, and no more tears.

Summer brings music and merriment to the streets of Rome, gypsies and pilgrims alike dancing together. We can do similarly here.

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[ Lucrezia thinks that's the danger with love, that no matter how many times your heart breaks, it still somehow finds a way to do it all over again. ]

And you loved him.

[She is quiet again, before she nods her head, fresh tears sliding down her cheeks]

I only loved one person more, and I lost them both. [Prim and Peeta - the two pillars of her universe. Both gone. Now she stood alone... no, not alone. Just lonely.]

[ A kindred soul, she thinks, but it's cruel to wish that on anyone. ]

Then you must love one more person, if you should choose.

Still not a lot of options. Not here, anyways.

[She sighed, brushing the hair away from her face.]

While I see too many. You might borrow my eyes.

[ Shh, Joshua's totally not reading this thread. ]

Dare I ask what your eyes would see?

[She grinned quietly.]

Too many honest men with kind eyes and soft hands. To choose from.

You must have a lot of suitors, then. [Honest men with kind eyes and soft hands - the soft hands she could do without. But the rest sounded ... like home.]

[ Soft hands are an absolute must. Her dead husband's were hard and he struck her when it pleased him to. ]

No, they are not courting my hand.

[She's never trusted a man who has soft hands - give her artistic hands that can make beautiful things, but have known hard work in their time.]

Oh, well, why do you see them then?

I have no husband to forbid me from doing so.

[She chuckled quietly.]

Well, that's as good a reason as any.

Indeed. Marriage is a terrible affliction.

I've always thought so - but mostly I just thought it painted a target on your loved one's back.

That it would place them in harm's way?

[She nodded her head slowly.] But I suppose that is always the risk with love. You can always lose, one way or another.

Better not to then.

Lose? Or love?

Love. [ Because one way or another, losing is a certainty. She's a hypocrite for preaching thus, however. ]

Then I find it funny that you're encouraging me to find love again, Lady.

[ She laughs, but it's hollow. ]

You should be more fortunate in such matters than I.

[Katniss is quiet for a moment - she knows acting happy when one isn't - before she answers truthfully.]

Maybe you should be a little easier on yourself, when it comes to matters of the heart.

[ Truthfully indeed. Lucrezia knows the girl's intentions are anything but malicious, but it certainly seems so, when it hurts. ]

You know nothing. I never blamed myself for my misfortune. [ Perhaps on her name; Borgia. On her brothers. Her family. ~~Herself by extension because in the end it is she who loves the very one she shouldn't, not in that way.~~ ]

I never claimed that I did. Just seems like it.

[She shrugs, and there's an uncomfortable edge to it as she retreats back into herself.] Sorry.

[ She inhales gingerly, ragged. That may have been out of line. ]

There is one whom I love. Perhaps you will find your own.

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