Chameleon Circuit – Gallifreyan History 101

A Letter: Thresh and Foxface

Foxface,

The first thing that I need you to know is that I'm so sorry for scaring you after that explosion. I knew you'd been stealing from the Careers for a while and I'd wanted to ally with you for ages. So when I heard you in the ashes of their stuff I was going to invite you into an alliance.

Apart from then and at the Feast, I only saw you once. I think you thought that I was going to try and kill you then as well, but really I was still looking for you as an ally. I couldn't believe my luck when I just ran into you.

But you ran and I never saw you after that apart from at the Feast when you played that trick on the rest of us. That was pure genius. Hiding in the Cornucopia? I think you accomplished a first then. Congratulations. So that was the last time I saw you. I was going to track you after the Feast and see if you wanted to work together to wipe out the Careers (with your incredible brains and my strength we might have actually succeeded), but then I killed Clove and Cato started tracking me and the rest is history.

I regret not just asking you in training. I wanted to from the moment I watched your Reaping. You were so clever.

Thresh

Thresh,

You impressed me in the Arena. I watched you saving Katniss' life at the Feast and then killing Clove and fighting Cato later on. I was watching from the top of the hill. I'll never understand why you did what you did. Especially in letting Katniss live. She was possibly the biggest threat to you in that Arena, but you let her live. I can only assume it had something to do with little Rue. She was adorable.

Even though you impressed me, you also terrified me. We only had one brief meeting and I think you were going to try and kill me. It was by the river. Do you remember? I was creeping down one bank and you appear from the trees on the other side. That was scary as hell. I didn't think, I just ran then. I could hear you pounding after me, splashing through the river, but your muscle gave you extra weight and I was always fast. And then I was running on pure adrenaline, which helped me even further.

There was one point though when you shouted for me to wait. That almost made me stop. If you were going to kill me, why were you being so obvious? But I was scared. I'm sorry that I didn't stop. I wish I had.

I also wish I'd gotten to know you before the Games,

Love,

Foxface