Epilogue

House #2
Victor's Village
District 4
Panem

Mags

It was almost time. She could hear the sounds of people approaching.

For one last time she had opened her father's trunk, had gone into the secret compartment, had brought out the journals. After this they would either be the most important documents in the country or never be seen again. I have done what I could, she thought as she looked at the ancient picture of a very unusual family, I have done my best to live up to my oath; I have spread what I learned as far as I could reach. Now it is up to them.

She tore one page from the journal and removed the ancient picture and put the rest away. These she would destroy now, this picture and this page with the symbol of the crested bird with the arrow in its beak, this page somehow drawn hundreds of years before a young girl wore it into the Arena. This one had served its purpose. The Mockingjay was here at last. She had recognized her from her picture the moment she volunteered.

Her nephew stepped into the room. She had never born her own children; it had proved impossible after the injuries she suffered in her own Games, and so she had taught her nephew as she and her sister had been taught. She had taught her nephew and later his love, so the knowledge would be passed down to her children, and never forgotten. Now the noontime light glinted off his bronze hair, shadowed the face so like his distant ancestor. He was strong where his ancestor had been slender, had eyes of sea green where his ancestor had hazel, but the face, the bones, those had passed down to mark each man in their family generation after generation, the pretty ones, the keepers of the truth through time. "It's time to go Mags." Her nephew Finnick said to her. "One last Reaping Day."

Margaret Reid stood up, stepped to the stove, and tossed the page and the picture into the fire. Then she stepped out to meet the day.

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Note: That's it for this story. I hope you all enjoyed the ride. Now you call all picture MGG as Finnick along with me.

Much gratitude to my Beta Reader, the amazing REIDFANATIC, for bravely enduring both an unfamiliar cannon and a sci-fi one to boot.

My next story will be entirely CM. I'll have the first chapter or two up in the next day or so in case anyone wants to set an alert.

Thank you all very much for following along.

- TKL