Katniss likes rosemary. It's easy to grow, tastes good in most dishes, and catches a fair price at market. Katniss selects most of her favorite things by their practical value.
Prim likes rosemary because its sharp smell fills her nostrils and its flowers are dainty and look nice tucked behind her ear. She likes it because it stands for remembrance and because of the song that goes parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme and tells of true love. She likes it because there are stories and poems about it that are older than the Capitol itself and no matter how hard they try to remind the residents of District Twelve that there will never be an after the Capitol, they can't make them forget that there was a before the Capitol.
While they're watching the Games, Prim's mother tells her first about katniss and primrose, which she knows about already. She tells her about clove, which Prim doesn't think she'll ever like quite the same anymore. She tells her about rue and how it's beautiful but dangerous, about how its oil can cause blisters and stomach pains.
When Prim watches Katniss tuck the small and quietly dangerous girl from District Eleven into her sleeping back, it makes her feel like she's there, with her sister holding her warm and keeping her safe. And then the next day she feels nothing like Rue at all, because she's helping Katniss in ways Prim never could. But when Katniss sings to Rue, Prim feels irreversibly connected to her counterpart. This is a girl she never met and knows nothing about, but Prim knows they would have been best friends. She would have told Rue that climbing trees was dangerous, she would have cleaned out her scrapes and cuts if she ever misstep and fell, she would have braided rosemary sprigs into her dark hair.
When Katniss returns home, she tells Prim a secret. After Rue died, after the singing was done and the cameras cut away from them, Katniss had wreathed her body in flowers. She never tells Prim what type of flowers, but she pictures rosemary and pansies.
Prim plants rosemary in the window boxes of their home in the Victor's Village. It's her own small rebellion, but a private one she holds close to her heart and tells nobody about.
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Prim likes rosemary because its sharp smell fills her nostrils and its flowers are dainty and look nice tucked behind her ear. She likes it because it stands for remembrance and because of the song that goes parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme and tells of true love. She likes it because there are stories and poems about it that are older than the Capitol itself and no matter how hard they try to remind the residents of District Twelve that there will never be an after the Capitol, they can't make them forget that there was a before the Capitol.
While they're watching the Games, Prim's mother tells her first about katniss and primrose, which she knows about already. She tells her about clove, which Prim doesn't think she'll ever like quite the same anymore. She tells her about rue and how it's beautiful but dangerous, about how its oil can cause blisters and stomach pains.
When Prim watches Katniss tuck the small and quietly dangerous girl from District Eleven into her sleeping back, it makes her feel like she's there, with her sister holding her warm and keeping her safe. And then the next day she feels nothing like Rue at all, because she's helping Katniss in ways Prim never could. But when Katniss sings to Rue, Prim feels irreversibly connected to her counterpart. This is a girl she never met and knows nothing about, but Prim knows they would have been best friends. She would have told Rue that climbing trees was dangerous, she would have cleaned out her scrapes and cuts if she ever misstep and fell, she would have braided rosemary sprigs into her dark hair.
When Katniss returns home, she tells Prim a secret. After Rue died, after the singing was done and the cameras cut away from them, Katniss had wreathed her body in flowers. She never tells Prim what type of flowers, but she pictures rosemary and pansies.
Prim plants rosemary in the window boxes of their home in the Victor's Village. It's her own small rebellion, but a private one she holds close to her heart and tells nobody about.