In the morning I wake up, my clothes are slightly rumpled but I don`t change and go off in search of the dining car. When I find it is filled with the most delicious foods I have ever seen, and there is more food than I have ever seen in one place before. It actually might be more food than I have ever seen before. Period. There are giant bowls of fruit, plates of bagels and toast, heads of biscuits and buns. Vats of steaming hot cocoa and orange juice, Bowls full of different flavors of yogurts. Sausages, and bacon, and ham worthy of Christmas dinner. I fill up a plate and get a cup of hot chocolate and head over to the table, were Kathleen has already dug in. I stuff myself with food until my plate until my plate is nearly bare before starting a conversation.
"You know I would never kill you in the arena, right?" wow, applause to Alek that wins the award for most awkward conversation starter of all time.
"Of course, and I would never kill you" she responds immediately
"Ok, deal, we won`t kill each other"
"I wouldn`t kill you either way, but deal" She says. Ok, one tribute who won`t kill me. Of course, there is no way I`ll be able to appeal to all the tributes, but still I won`t be able to do much to win once I'm actually in the arena, so why can`t I try outside of it?
I eat, like, 4 full plates of the amazing food before I finally get full. That`s more food than I`ve ever eaten in one sitting. even though she`s like half my size I think Kathleen eats even more. Elixa doesn`t make an appearance until 11:30 that morning, when me and Kathleen are sitting on the couch in the TV room watching the reruns of the other reaping's.
"Hello all!" trills Elixa "getting an idea of your competition?!"
"Yes" says Kathleen. I give her look that I hope fairly plainly says never ever respond to anything that women says or you will be stuck with her for hours and hours.
"Oohhh" she squeals "so who looks menacing!?" She says making an expression I think is supposed to look menacing, but ends up looking more like a deformed rabbit. No, that's an insult to deformed rabbits.
"Ok, well I'll leave you to your watching! I have to go beatify myself!" She says. How much more beatifying can she possible do? She`s not pretty, but by the looks of her she`s done about as much as humanly possible to enhance her body. Her skin is so pale it looks almost white, her hair hangs in cherry red ringlets down her back, and her eyes are silvery purple. By the looks of her she was up before all of us this morning, but spent 4 or 5 yours beatifying herself.
So tributes. Kathleen and I have watched all the reapings now, so we know who were up against. I was right, thinking Kathleen would be the youngest person in the arena. There are Three thirteen year olds, the girl from 11, the boy from 9, and the boy from 6. Though by the looks of them, everyone in the arena would have at least a foot on Kathleen. There were 4 who stood out as major competitors. They boy and girl from 2, the boy from 11, and the girl from 8. The ones from 2 are giant; the never suffered from the war, district 2 sided with the capitol. The boy from 11 has giant muscles, and looks like he could probably pick me up without any strain. The girl from 8 is, well, a giant.
Of course, you don`t just win the Hunger Games by being big, I have no idea what any of these peoples fighting skills are like. Another important factor is intelligence, I have no idea how smart and cunning any of these people are. So, in reality I have pretty much no idea what I will be up against in the arena.
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