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    The 48th Hunger Games unfolded like many others, and changed very little. That does not mean they were unimportant.

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  1. Public Bookmark 3

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    The pillow wasn’t enough.

    They clutched it over their ears as they tossed and turned, balling their fists up in its fluffy mass. Music rang through the walls. Heavy, fumbling footsteps shook the floor, a noise more felt than heard. Careless, slurring voices, interspersed with giggles and that wretched, obnoxious, grating chuckle—
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    They knelt in front of the birdcage. “Anywhere but here,” they rasped, as if their intent had ever held any weight before. As if it would listen, if it could even hear.
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    “Let’s close our eyes and think about what Susie’s doing now, okay, Kris?”

    Shaken, Kris met Ralsei’s gaze with wide eyes. If there were any doubt left in Kris’s mind about the intentionality behind these little meditative exercises, usually followed by some subtle check-in… this dispelled it. Maybe they were imagining it, but the Darkner Prince’s warm cherry-blossom eyes seemed to see right past their walls, through the layers of coercion and control, to the hollow husk of a child at the center of it all.

    (In which Kris retreats to their bedroom in Castle Town after the events of Chapter 4 and makes a friend.)

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    12 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 19

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    While at The Met with Charles and Oliver, Mabel gets a text from Theo. Set immediately after the Season 2 finale.

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    21 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 9

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    Mabel and Theo bump into each other and get a pizza topped with extra mutual pining.

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    20 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 18

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    After everyone is evicted from the Arconia, Mabel moves back in with Theo. Unfortunately, she's not the only person with that plan.

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    20 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 24

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    He doesn’t think he will ever wash himself off of his sins - they are too grave, they run too deep. But if she’s willing to look beyond them, maybe he needs to try and see what she sees past the darkness.

     

    Theo struggles with the guilt of the past, but Mabel seems to think he still deserves a future.

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    20 Jan 2026