PART 1: 
A calculated gamble or a calculated move?

there's blood on the roses

"Why me Coryo? Why me?"

A fight for control. Poker or Chess? A calculated gamble or a calculated move? 

"She was well loved in the Capitol. Before she was married to Coriolanus Snow, Drusilla was the only known daughter to Major Warden von Tougaard... She was stunningly beautiful, but twice as fierce and thrice as brilliant."

— Extract from chronologist Elphaba Inaris in her Book: The Rise of Snow