p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The boy holding the box peered at the President in a concerned way as his hands brushed the lid. He had to stifle an undignified giggle. The 100th Hunger Games. Who would have thought he would have lived this long? Certainly not he. He stared at his hands, bony and liver-spotted, and attempted to stop them from shaking./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The boy was perhaps five, and he cleared his throat. "Umm, you need to open up the box, sir, and pull out an envelope." People were always saying stupid things like that nowadays. Like the Alzheimer's would affect his mind, which was still sharper than most people's after all these years. Like he wouldn't keel over before he forgot anything important./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Instead of saying all this, he leaned over in his wheelchair until he could see his reflection in the box. He looked almost more ancient than the wood he was seeing himself in. He wasn't./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The boy, (who he thought was probably one of his grandsons or great-grandsons, he couldn't remember, it didn't matter) cleared his throat again, and rattled the box. So the President quickly and without drama opened the box, took out an envelope, and read the sheet of paper inside./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Then he laughed. He could hear the rattle in his voice, feel the shaking in his chest. And the last action of President Coriolanus Snow was to let out a hearty, "HA!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The boy picked up the envelope his great-grandfather had now dropped to the ground. He read it aloud for the cameras./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""For the 100th Hunger Games, all tributes shall be female."/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strongHey there kids, originally this section held SYOT information, but it was bugging me, so that's gone now. Also, I made minor edits to this chapter to clarify things, and make everything more compliant with established worldbuilding./strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strongMore edits are to come to the following chapters, to accomplish basically the same things as this one./strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"strongIt's important to note that this story contains many span style="text-decoration: underline;"unlabeled triggers/span/strong strongbecause I just didn't think about it until fairly recently. As a warning now, this story contains mental, physical, emotional and sexual abuse, attempted suicide, swearing, violence, homophobia, transphobia, vomit, and injury. It will in the future most likely contain suicide, death, murder, gore, and possibly other triggers as well. span style="text-decoration: underline;"I have rated the story T because the levels of severity of each of these individual things in the story is, in my opinion, similar to what is regularly covered in YA novels, and similar to what is regularly experienced in real life by real teenagers./span If you have another trigger you are concerned about, or would like to know the specific chapters in which these things appear, please DM me and I will not hesitate to help you./strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strongEnjoy the story!/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strong-Phannie/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The boy was perhaps five, and he cleared his throat. "Umm, you need to open up the box, sir, and pull out an envelope." People were always saying stupid things like that nowadays. Like the Alzheimer's would affect his mind, which was still sharper than most people's after all these years. Like he wouldn't keel over before he forgot anything important./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Instead of saying all this, he leaned over in his wheelchair until he could see his reflection in the box. He looked almost more ancient than the wood he was seeing himself in. He wasn't./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The boy, (who he thought was probably one of his grandsons or great-grandsons, he couldn't remember, it didn't matter) cleared his throat again, and rattled the box. So the President quickly and without drama opened the box, took out an envelope, and read the sheet of paper inside./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Then he laughed. He could hear the rattle in his voice, feel the shaking in his chest. And the last action of President Coriolanus Snow was to let out a hearty, "HA!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The boy picked up the envelope his great-grandfather had now dropped to the ground. He read it aloud for the cameras./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""For the 100th Hunger Games, all tributes shall be female."/p
hr style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;" noshade="noshade" size="1" /
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strongHey there kids, originally this section held SYOT information, but it was bugging me, so that's gone now. Also, I made minor edits to this chapter to clarify things, and make everything more compliant with established worldbuilding./strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strongMore edits are to come to the following chapters, to accomplish basically the same things as this one./strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"strongIt's important to note that this story contains many span style="text-decoration: underline;"unlabeled triggers/span/strong strongbecause I just didn't think about it until fairly recently. As a warning now, this story contains mental, physical, emotional and sexual abuse, attempted suicide, swearing, violence, homophobia, transphobia, vomit, and injury. It will in the future most likely contain suicide, death, murder, gore, and possibly other triggers as well. span style="text-decoration: underline;"I have rated the story T because the levels of severity of each of these individual things in the story is, in my opinion, similar to what is regularly covered in YA novels, and similar to what is regularly experienced in real life by real teenagers./span If you have another trigger you are concerned about, or would like to know the specific chapters in which these things appear, please DM me and I will not hesitate to help you./strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strongEnjoy the story!/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strong-Phannie/strong/p