[He hesitates, then tries a weak smile. Smiling helps to deflect when things get uncomfortable.]
My mom's kind of...picky.
[When it's the Games, he can talk until she begs him to stop. But this is a part of his life they do not share, that he does not understand. As much time as he spends being as normal a boy as possible, under the circumstances, it feels unnatural to admit that things were never normal.]
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My mom's kind of...picky.
[When it's the Games, he can talk until she begs him to stop. But this is a part of his life they do not share, that he does not understand. As much time as he spends being as normal a boy as possible, under the circumstances, it feels unnatural to admit that things were never normal.]