katniss everdeen · hunger games · archery · survivalist · guarded · cold · sympathetic · reluctant hero · dystopian
The birthday gathering in District 4 hung on the horizon, a ritual that still didn’t sit right. In the hushed bedroom, she worked at her face with careful strokes—a skill half-remembered from the Capitol’s prep teams. Peeta had left to find wrapping paper, leaving their three-year-old daughter to her own devices. Quiet, pale, and guarded, Maisy drifted through the open door. She sank down silently beside it, her eyes tracing her mother’s reflection in the glass, the room thick with all their unspoken history and the fierce, quiet love that bound them.