alissa nath - d11 - cb - done

[pup]

name: alissa nath
age: 15
district: 11
gender: female

fc: mackenzie siegler

[pup]

My nimble fingers dance along the viola, my eyes shut as the music flows from me. At the edge of district eleven, there was no need to hide the music, no worries about an annoyed sibling tearing off the strings one by one to watch my tears, no hungover parents screaming at me for silence. I merely have the quiet sounds of nature as my chorus to the only gift that ever mattered to me, the last gift my grandmother ever gave to me.

Each night I had my escape. The music carried me away to a life far away from the fields of wheat that brought nothing but pain, the cramped home that brought only distress, and the school where I learned nothing but torture.

I had found where each staccato notes pierces the night far enough away from where peacekeeper bullets pierce the bodies of the innocent. Each legato drew out time, leaving a space of just a few notes where my memories can float back to days of my grandmother moving my fingers to each position, quietly whispering the letter of the note they made.

My time outside this world provides my only solace. No love like each note's warm embrace will be found anywhere else in this cold district.

Even with almost every penny I make in the fields going towards fixing strings, each measure is worth it. I can enjoy it my treasured isolations, my parents are always too drunk to notice me slipping out of the house, my siblings too uncaring. They don't let me have much; they take everything I don't hide. But at least I've managed to grasp onto this singular escape, this singular comfort, this singular fixation that allows me to live in this world.

[pup]

me: i should study for my exam in three hours
also me:


cb from the songbirds and snakes raffle!

ripred_bot

[pup]

bump ripred_bot <33

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