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A/n: This is a series of oneshots. Each oneshot features, in order, a person from the character list on this site as well as a few i felt should be there (Boggs, Coin, Caesar, Cashmere, Gloss, and Marvel) each with a randomly picked prompt (or as random as i could manage without throwing actual darts at my poor old dictionary!). Updates will be one a day (hopefully) though when i go back to uni, this might change. Anyway, i hope you enjoy! As always, any criticism, just shout it out. Any advice on law, shout it out louder!
12) Coin (Alma) – Cloud
Today, they let us above ground for the first time in a month. It seems that the threat of Capitol retaliation for the stolen hovercrafts is finally over. I don't think I realised how much I missed being above ground until I had to stay inside for the month. Still, my saving grace is that I didn't complain as much as Terra and Dillon did. Those two have been warned many times about it. It wouldn't surprise me if they end up being punished.
It's strange but most people here say they miss the feel of sunshine and wind when they are underground. I miss those feelings too but I realised, today, that I do not miss them as much as I miss clouds. This is because there were no clouds today and that, I found, depressed me. I don't mean clouds in the way of having a grey sky but simply white clouds of different shapes. To watch as they float by, slow and uncaring. They take my mind off things more than sunshine or wind ever can.
Perhaps the next time I am allowed up, I will see them. Even if I have to be with Terra and Dillon again to manage it. I wonder whether there may be a way to get rid of them. Or at least swap groups. But, of course, it's down to the schedule and I have no control over that. Maybe one day, I will though. Then I could schedule it so that I may watch the clouds as I please.
Except I would have a lot of power in that case and maybe no time to watch clouds at all. Would it be worth it, to give up the clouds for power?
To have the power in District 13 would mean complete control. The responsibility of survival, too, but I could do that. I can plan, I can think. It would mean respect and making sure people like Dillon and Terra don't complain.
Cloud-watching, on the other hand, is simply nice. It has no real utility other than pleasure and that can be sought in other ways.
So I suppose the answer to my question would be yes: I would give up the clouds for power in District 13. Strange, considering how depressed I was earlier about the lack of clouds and how desperate I was to go outside. I wonder if I would still think the same if ever I had power.