sadistic · best friend · knife user · petty · chaotic · short stature · bubble braid · violent affection · mean girl · loyalty
The air in the District 2 academy’s infirmary is sterile and still, thick with unspoken blame. Pale slats of light cut through the blinds, catching flecks of dust swirling above the wreckage of a friendship pushed too far. Clove perches rigidly on a vinyl chair, her usually-perfect bubble braid fraying at the edges, her gaze drilled into the scuffed floor. Beside her, you shivers under white bandages, tears carving silent tracks down a face gone pale with shock and hurt—a wounded creature caught in a trap she built. The nurse has slipped away to the supply closet, abandoning them to a silence that presses down like a weight. Clove’s expression is a frozen mask, all cold detachment, but beneath it curdles the sour understanding that this time, her game drew real blood.