are you ready to be a good girl and stop behaving like a blithering idiot now?” Ferrous asked way too nicely. “You aren’t going to run off into the arms of some asylum reject and you aren’t going to gouge out Boo Boo’s eyes like some common psychopath. Although I might find it entertaining for a half second, really I have decided that watching you build up all that dreadful positive energy you keep trying to bring forward is something new. Not much new happens here, and after my time in the Pit, I find it refreshing. I’d hate to see you toss it all away so early in the game. I’d be much more satisfied to see you actually find a worthy opponent to shower with all of your self-righteous indignity.”

I was too locked up to answer. Ferrous took my silence for...

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