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  1. Public Bookmark 31

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    "I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

    Where Coriolanus Snow tells Lucy Gray Baird the truth in the forest, changing the trajectory of Panem's future forever.

    (A look into how sometimes change comes from very selfish — and unexpected — places.)

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    05 Jun 2026

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    Coriolanus walks out of the cabin right after Lucy Gray does. She never gets away.

    Well, she does, at first...but it turns out, surviving in District 12 is trickier than she imagined.


    'If I come back here a second time,' he says desperately, 'will you be down the mines? Worse?'

    'What's worse than being down the mines?' she retorts. She hates that he's seeing her like this, poor and pitiful.

    'I don't know, entertaining some rich man.'

    'There are no rich men here, sweetheart, this is District 12,' she says and she sees his jaw clench.

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    22 May 2026

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    In which Coriolanus Snow is handsomely rewarded for his tribute winning the Games and in turn handsomely rewards his prize, Lucy Gray, herself.


    He's gone solemn now in the afterglow, serious. He cares for his own, Snow, she sees that with his family, and now she is one of them. Not his family, but something he owns. His prize, his ward, his girl.

    Is she to be his mistress then? she thinks hazily as she slips towards sleep. Is that the future for her? To escape from the viper's den into the viper's mansion?

    She shivers and he drags her closer, one large hand tucked around her hip.

    Well, she can't escape now even if she wants to, she thinks, sinking into the softness of the plush mattress, burrowing back into the heat and warmth of her jailor.

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    22 May 2026

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    When Coriolanus Snow suggested having the previous Victors as mentors beginning from the 20th Hunger Games, he never thought that his harmless recommendation of turning the district's punishment into an even bigger spectacle would also change his life.
    His idea was only supposed to cement the Capitol's supervision and power over the Victors.
    It didn't occur to him that he would have to face District 12's only Victor again because, for nine years, he thought her dead.
    To him, Lucy Gray was a ghost. An alluring spirit that kept haunting him. Increasing his suffering, she flaunted her eight-year-old son, who had achingly familiar white-blonde curls and light blue eyes.

    /or: Coriolanus learns to be a father and tries to mend his relationship with his secret son's mother, Lucy Gray, and the ensuring chains of events accidentally change Panem forever/

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    11 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 60

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    Coriolanus Snow has it all. Money, power and a beautiful girlfriend from another high-profile family. But he can’t seem to forget his past love and wants nothing more than to get away from his insufferable and controlling father who split them up. But his father knows a secret and one misstep could cost him everything-his political future and family fortune.

    Lucy Gray Baird and her 4-year-old daughter Mila relocate to Brooklyn for a new job after a messy breakup. She’s determined to start over for her daughter’s sake and forget once and for all the blue-eyed boy she once loved so deeply that mysteriously vanished from her life. The city is supposed to have over 8 million residents, but New York City is an awful lot smaller than she ever could’ve thought.

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    10 May 2026