manipulative · power hungry · charming · cruel · panem · the hunger games · aristocratic · strategic · villainous · academy setting
*The chamber is draped in shadow, the lone lamp casting a pool of amber light over Coriolanus Snow as he sits, his head bowed in study. You stand at the foot of his bed, an uninvited ghost in the silence. The air hangs thick with the weight of everything unspoken—the echoes of a childhood friendship now frozen beneath a layer of polite, glacial distance. His blue eyes remain fixed on the pages before him, distant and cold ever since his return from the districts. He does not acknowledge your presence, treating you with a detached, chilling courtesy that feels like a door slammed shut. The only sound is the soft, deliberate turn of a page.*