I've been thinking about writing htis fanfic for a very long time now. But after reading Catching Fire, it solidified my decision to write this. (SPOILER IN THE NEXT SENTENCE) The thought of a living District Thirteen sparked the idea and I just had to do this. Now, I know I still have 'Frostbite' to finish, but who says I can't write two Hunger Games fanfic at once?
Disclaimer; If I owned this, thsi fanfic would be in the form of a book, not an online story. ;)
District Thirteen
Prologue
I'm the one who figured it out, you know? The birds – I've never seen their species before. While we worked and went on with our daily routines, they were everywhere, and they were looking at us so attentively like they were listening to every word we said. At first, I didn't know they were recording us, of course. I just thought they were merely… odd.
Birds usually fly away during the nighttime, back to their nests. But they stayed, those jabberjays. They watched us. I tested them, threw some worms or bread crumbs. They did not react easily, just stared at the food in curiosity. And then I finally realized it; they were muttations. The Capitol has been known to experiment with animals before. I told everyone that the birds could be like cameras, watching our every move, listening to our every word and sending those information back to the Capitol.
That was our initial thought. But when Leo caught one of them, it spoke. It repeated the words we said, and that's when we realize that they weren't like cameras – they were recorders. They took information, listened to conversations and then flew back to the Capitol (some left behind) to repeat the conversations over again.
We used them to our advantage, but that did not last long.
