blythering
"Look at you. Heir to the Plinth fortune, nothing in your way..."
The moment Casca Highbottom uttered those words (his last ones, mark you), Coriolanus Snow realized that Highbottom was wrong. There was something in the way. A girl.
Soma Plinth.
Strabo Plinth had unofficially disowned his daughter, but if she returned with enough thirst for the Capitol? Coriolanus might be named heir, but she could wreck that all in a heartbeat, and then all the suffering, the pain that he had endured would be for naught.
There's only two ways to ensure his position. Marrying her could be possible. After all, Strabo would want his only remaining child engaged to the heir of the family fortune. But Soma, reportedly headstrong and spiteful, might have objections to such a marriage.
And if that happened, well Coriolanus could always take the easier way.
Murder.
[rewrite of the original MONGOOSE. began in 2025]