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Listening to Cat and Thorun makes me feel physically ill.
Thorun’s sentiments are commendable and align with mine exactly.
But Cat’s one hundred per cent right.
The Games are designed specifically to select women who won’t quibble when they discover our diets.
‘Why haven’t I ever considered this? It makes so much sense when she words it that way.
Even Wolf must have subconsciously known this when he said we need to weed out the lambs.
His point was that our world is dangerous.
But it’s not really our world. It’s us – we’re dangerous.
And humans can’t know that. For us to retain power over them in this day and age they must believe the lie.
A wolf can’t marry a lamb. A wolf must marry a wolf. ’
‘And yet, it doesn’t always work, does it?
After all, Eleanor was captured in the Games by Falcon’s father, yet she worked to free humanity from our predation for centuries.
She was even willing to sacrifice her own grandchild if it meant saving the lives of countless other grandchildren in the future. ’
‘She’s a wolf who works for the lambs.’
I shake my head and turn my attention back to the pair as Cat presses the gun to Sona’s head and Starlen capers about in the background, warning viewers to ‘close their eyes and look away’ — if only I could.