The year is 55 A.D.D., and a storm hits Panem. Ten parts of the continent, including the Capitol, are severely damaged. The worst hit is District 7, the district of lumber. Ten thousand homes are destroyed and three-hundred thousand people die from drowning, electrocutions, or debris crashing into them. Two of the luckiest people are husband and wife Welsh immigrants Ewan and Gwyneth Mason, who happen to about to have a female child. They are currently in their home.
'Come on, Gwyneth!' Ewan shouts, 'We can make it through the storm and have a child! Don't die on me!'
'Stop patronising me, Ewan!' Gwyneth replies in pain, 'We could die from this!'
Gwyneth keeps pushing until the child comes out. She soon gives birth to the placenta soon after. Coincidentally, the storm calms down immediately after the child's birth. Gwyneth names her child Johanna after a Welsh legend she read about a child that becomes a great ruler after being born during a disastrous storm.
At Johanna's age of eight, in 63 A.D.D., her brother, Lewis, is born, but with autism, which means he has to be turned into an Avox, a person who has his/her tongue cut off after committing a crime and becomes a slave. The peacemakers come in and try to take Lewis. Johanna gets the kitchen knife and stabs the peacemaker on his left hand. Johanna and Lewis, as well as their parents, flee the house to go to the slums, where crime is surprisingly low. They are all treated like members of a big family for a while until 66 A.D.D. where Johanna is put up for the Reaping, which she was lucky enough not to be chosen for five years. But the legend Gwyneth read stated this:
"Five times from her eleventh year she will avoid the trial, but on the sixteenth year of her life, she will be involved in the trial, no matter what happens."
Why are you told this? The girl referred to as Johanna is me. I am Johanna Mason, and this how I went from a peasant to a victor to a rival to a helper to a hero...