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    Enjolras had been twelve years old when he’d been chosen for the Games. Small and quiet and fierce as the sun, he’d stalked to the stage with barely a tremble, eyes slitted against the suddenly silent crowd. District 1 was Career—kids fought each other for the honor of volunteering, voices overlapping as they shouted to be heard.

    His was the first year no one volunteered.

    His was the first year a Career tribute refused to join a pack.

    His was the first year no one betted on 1 making it to the end—no one except eight-year-old know-nothings like Grantaire, watching every night with shaking hands, feeling an unexpected heat unfold piece by piece inside his chest until he was overflowing with…something. Some feeling he couldn’t name, not for many, many more years.

    NOTE: Alas, this story is on hiatus.

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