"do you think it is right
for you to eat fledglings
out of a nest?"

quotes from Rikki Tikki Tavi by Jerry Pinkney

"when a snake misses its stroke,
it never says anything
or gives any sign
of what it means to do next."

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SOMA PLINTH lost her brother. Wait. No. She didn't lose him.

He was taken.

Taken from life and everything warm by the cold hands of Snow, the boy who Soma had trusted to protect Sejanus to the end. The boy who swore up and down and back again that he would never, never let the Capitol destroy the friendships he had made. But he had. Oh, he had.

And now she was going to do everything in her power to destroy him.

A mongoose is a snake's natural enemy, for they are so quick, a snake's bite never pierces them. They were believed to be immune to poison, since spectators would think the mongoose bit. That's just how fast they are.

Soma will be faster. Run, and find out. That is the motto of the mongoose.

Run, and find out the weak points in your enemy.

Run, and find out the softest part of the throat.

Run, and leave them all bleeding.

CORIOLANUS SNOW lost everything. Wait. No. He gained everything.

Rich, in the lap of the Plinth family wealth, comfy in his role as a Gamemaker and up-and-coming politician, Coriolanus has never felt better about where he was in life.

That is, until Soma Plinth comes back from District Four and demands to know what really happened to her brother.

Coriolanus already lost Lucy Gray.

He lost Sejanus.

He lost Grandma'am and Tigris.

He lost everything.

And the one person he wishes to truly lose, to truly forget, will not stop plaguing him.

It makes his fangs unsheath, his poison drip a little faster, his reflexes a little hungrier.

Only one can win.
Mongoose? or Snake?
there are no songbirds here.

"it is the hardest thing in the world
to frighten a mongoose."

"run and find out"

COMING SOON.