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Day 29 of “One Chapter A Day To Keep The Snakes At Bay”, 1 to go
This world goes blind
When children are dying.
I turn into dust, but
You never stop trying.
It’s why I
Love you-
You’re pure as the driven snow.

Day 28 of “One Chapter A Day To Keep The Snakes At Bay”, 2 to go
I have no words, but “Ma!”.

Day 27 of “One Chapter A Day To Keep The Snakes At Bay”, 3 to go
“She always knows where they’ll be” The biggest snake of all was a challenge.
He feels good by hearing mockingjays sing capitol anthem. He lost it already. He is disturbed by music too. Pathetic. Recording Sejanus and the handkerchief incident. He did both instinctively, but on different sides of the “fine line”.

Day 26 of “One Chapter A Day To Keep The Snakes At Bay”, 4 to go
“‘Some people just understand birds.’ Coriolanus felt, unequivocally, that he would never be one of those people,…” His hatred towards mockingjays, their “spontaneous creation”. Jabberjays can be controlled by people but mockingjays can’t and it TERRIFIES HIM.
The Lucy Gray ballad by William Wordsworth. Lost in snow. I can’t.

Day 25 of “One Chapter A Day To Keep The Snakes At Bay”, 5 to go
“… after a night of strange dreams that vacillated between him kissing Lucy Gray and feeling Dr. Gaul’s snakelets…” you need help coryo. Not that you accept it but… anyways. We are doomed.

Day 24 of “One Chapter A Day To Keep The Snakes At Bay”, 6 to go
“Maybe he was not cut out to be a lover.” KEEP TELLING YOURSELF THAT YOU COWARD DOUBTING HIS FEELINGS THE SECOND THNGS GET HARD
Lucy Gray mentions how she couldn’t understand why the snakes loved her. They didn’t love, they clung because she was the only source of hope, love and warmth they recognized. Especially for that big blonde snake.

Day 23 of “One Chapter A Day To Keep The Snakes At Bay”, 7 to go
“This is… this is maybe the best night of my life.” THE SOFTNESS PIERCED ME IN THIS CHAPTER I AM NOT FINE and we see the mockingjays, coryo’s immediate hatred towards them. Things will go downhill from this point put the seatbelts on everybody

Day 22 of “One Chapter A Day To Keep The Snakes At Bay”, 8 to go
We see the place where they strung up a man, they said he murdered three.
Coryo’s almost humanization this chapter is hurting me. Sejanus, Lucy Gray. He feels hope and love, but he never holds on to them.

Day 21 of “One Chapter A Day To Keep The Snakes At Bay”, 9 to go
He is so desperate I had to relish. Thinking of Lucy Gray tortured in the hands of the monster woman, his family disgraced. Then Tigris’ letter reminding him of the power of hope, and then him never forgetting it and making sure his enemies never feel it. The happiness when he sees Sejanus, I can’t anymore.
(Officially down to single digits!!!)

Day 20 of “One Chapter A Day To Keep The Snakes At Bay”, 10 to go
Lucy Gray having a way with snakes, also getting close to the biggest snake of all, but then the snake going insane ANYWAYS THEY SHIPPED HIM OF GOODBYE PATHETIC PEACEKEEPER