With two generations of Starks, Panem achieved weapons parity with District 13 two years before Pepper won the games. In five years, Panem will have superiority; in fifteen years, Panem should have dominance.
Your world building is so, so, so good.
And also. Jesus, the way you track out the implied psychology in this, the world you create when you teach an entire population to be prepared to kill people you care about. How does Pepper cross that line? Merely by continuing to exist, to have that capacity to do so. Jesus and Obadiah in this, on the outskirts of the narrative, nervous, as he should be.
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Date: 2012-03-26 12:50 am (UTC)Your world building is so, so, so good.
And also. Jesus, the way you track out the implied psychology in this, the world you create when you teach an entire population to be prepared to kill people you care about. How does Pepper cross that line? Merely by continuing to exist, to have that capacity to do so. Jesus and Obadiah in this, on the outskirts of the narrative, nervous, as he should be.
This is so. Terrifyingly. Good.