[ETA: this doesn't really fit your prompt, sorry.]
District 12's boy knows how to work the cameras. He smiles, half at Caesar, half at the audience. When he speaks, his voice is clear and low and intimate and Caesar feels the whole room leaning closer.
If this was an interview tape, he'd have Mellark hosting one of his networks double-handful of morning talk shows (that Cranberry girl was getting lame ratings these season anyway), ease him into commentary circuit, make him a household name within three years. But this wasn't an interview tape and like 96% of the people Caeser interviewed, Peeta wasn't going to live out the week. If Caeser was a betting man (which he wasn't; it was against contract), he'd place money on this golden-tongued boy dying in the first melee - probably about ten minutes after his Katniss.
It was a damn shame. Caesar could have made that boy famous.
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timeasmymeasure
"You Could Be Immortal"
District 12's boy knows how to work the cameras. He smiles, half at Caesar, half at the audience. When he speaks, his voice is clear and low and intimate and Caesar feels the whole room leaning closer.
If this was an interview tape, he'd have Mellark hosting one of his networks double-handful of morning talk shows (that Cranberry girl was getting lame ratings these season anyway), ease him into commentary circuit, make him a household name within three years. But this wasn't an interview tape and like 96% of the people Caeser interviewed, Peeta wasn't going to live out the week. If Caeser was a betting man (which he wasn't; it was against contract), he'd place money on this golden-tongued boy dying in the first melee - probably about ten minutes after his Katniss.
It was a damn shame. Caesar could have made that boy famous.