Consider if you will a government with the power to take innocent life at will, to force parents to surrender their children to be slaughtered for some vague and long forgotten debt all in the name of entertainment. Ask yourself "If a Government can force innocent children to do that what else do they have the power to do?" Katniss Everdeen is about to find out.
Well tomorrow is the day they observe our skills in private sessions, Haymitch says to finally show them my archery skills. It's about time; I have been puttering around the other stations these past few days trying to pick up some other skills, as has Peeta. I sure hope he has something to show them that will gain him a high score.
As I drift off to sleep, I think of Haymitch's insistence that we train as a team, Peeta seems very pleased with this arrangement but I really have my doubts, "Oh well! Just have to see what tomorrow brings."
While Peeta and I are eating breakfast, we are told not to report to the training area but to follow our Avox's to another area. I wonder what this is all about. Something new? Peeta and I try to figure out what's up but we watch the other tributes being given this information and detect a buzz of conversation arising from this new information.
After breakfast we follow our respective Avox's to the prep area of all places, Peeta is taken to another stall while I'm told to strip and lie on the table while they go over me again plucking hair and applying make up. While I'm undergoing all this, I notice my red headed Avox girl standing nearby looking very nervous, "does she know something I don't?" They also do something they never did before; they apply some sort of make-up to my genital area along with a cream of some kind. When they let me sit up I'm given some pill to swallow my curiosity is really going now, I'm then told not to put my cloths back on but just to follow my Avox I'm really starting to worry now something's definitely wrong here.
Trying to cover myself as best as possible I follow my Avox down a hall past other prep stalls where other naked tributes are emerging, everybody's trying to do as I am and cover themselves. I start seeing red faces as we are all being funneled down a long hall towards a single door. I see Peeta up ahead but he doesn't see me yet, some of the girls are starting to cry a little bit, fear starts creeping into my mind "what's going on here?" We are told there is to be no talking but everybody is whispering to each other about our destination. As we approach the door, Peeta's eyes connect with mine.
We are prevented from getting together by the milling tributes, I see the tributes from 1 and 2 standing together unashamedly as if walking around naked was an everyday occurrence for them however I start to notice all the males are getting erections with red faces and attempts to hide their manhood.
End of Chapter One
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