They'd expected it to take time. Katniss may have sparked the flame the rebels thought could set Panem ablaze, but none of them thought it would be quick or easy. There are twelve districts to wrest from the Capitol. Some of them are ready to revolt, like 4, like 3, like 11 and 8, but others were always going to be more difficult, and the Capitol was not going to let any of them fall easily. Freeing Katniss was just the first part of the plan. There was a lot of hard fighting ahead of them, and all the victors in on the plot knew it.
Finnick nods.
"It was always going to take time. But it happened. That's a start. That's ... more hope than Panem has had since the Dark Days."
That he means what he says burns in his eyes; he'd signed onto the revolution because he wanted, so badly, just the world Katniss has described. He's no expert in what's going to come next: leave that to Plutarch and District 13 and the politicians. But someone who wants to see the Capitol's elite destroyed, see Snow dead for what he's done? That's Finnick.
It's only once he's murmured those words that he drops his arms from around her and takes a half-step back.
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Finnick nods.
"It was always going to take time. But it happened. That's a start. That's ... more hope than Panem has had since the Dark Days."
That he means what he says burns in his eyes; he'd signed onto the revolution because he wanted, so badly, just the world Katniss has described. He's no expert in what's going to come next: leave that to Plutarch and District 13 and the politicians. But someone who wants to see the Capitol's elite destroyed, see Snow dead for what he's done? That's Finnick.
It's only once he's murmured those words that he drops his arms from around her and takes a half-step back.
"It will get better."