Rose on Fire

Chapter 67

(Snow POV)
I walk around my rose garden, it's kind of funny, after all this time they never knew I was here in a mansion only about a hundred miles from district 2. I hear a door open and close, I hear the light footsteps of my granddaughter behind me. I felt kind of bad for letting her go to the decoy cremation, it must've been quite boring and difficult to stay in character when she knew I was perfectly fine. "Hello Celestia," I say. "Good morning grandfather," she says cheerily. She walks over, and starts tending to the roses alongside me. "One day these roses will be yours Celestia," I say happily, "One day you shall rule Panem, and you can restore Panem back to it's usual self, and maybe even improve it." She smiles, her eyes filling with excitement and wonder. "How am I going to get there, Paylor looks like she has a good handle on her power, and she has a strong army, probably quite a few more than we do," she says unconfident. "Celestia, when I started to rule Panem, it was very similar to what we have now, through the years I had to use the weapon of poison to get to where I'm at know, and during this war, I will teach you to do the same," I say making her confidence boost. "I don't really want to kill any one though," she says. "Once you do it a few times, it all comes natural, the antidotes, sneaking the poison into their drink," I say. She smiles and gathers the clippings from the roses and disposes of them in the trash can. "I can't wait till we win the war," she says, her voice filled with excitement, I've always been careful of were I invest my emotions, and she is the person I favor the most, one day she shall not only lead Panem, but she shall rule it as a queen.