As soon as the doors hissed shut behind them Arya and Hayden were greeted by a very overenthusiastic Effie Trinket.
"Come on this way I will show you to the sitting room and then I will go fin Katniss and Peeta, oh you will abselouly adore them and I'm sure they will love you but I thinkā¦.." After a while you just sort of tuned her out. They stopped in front of a door that automatically opened and shut behind them. After Effie had ushered them in and made sure they were sitting down she trotted off in ridiculously high heels to find Peeta and Katniss. The tension between the two tributes was almost tangible. After a minute of complete silence the door hissed open again and Katniss walked in first fallowed by Peeta Effie appeared to have disappeared somewhere and to be honest Arya was relived. She looked Katniss and Peeta straight in the eye and she saw pity and sadness and that's when she realised that they expected her to fail, that everyone expected her to fail, and that made her blood boil. She narrowed her eyes and stared Peeta down and he stared back. Eventual Katniss broke the silence.
'So as you probably know we are going to be you mentors for the hunger games, we will guide you through the training and help you with strategies." Katniss had Arya's full attention now. "But our training will only get you so far after you are in the arena your pretty much on you own." Katniss stopped and looked at them waiting for a reaction. Arya nodded.
"When do we start?" she asked looking Katniss in the eye. Katniss almost smiled.
"We will arrive in the capitol in two days then the tributes parade then five days of training after that the interview night the next morning it's off to the arena." Peeta answered. They both nodded. "Effie will show you to your rooms and I think supper is in an hour." As if on cue Effie appeared out of thin air and show Arya to her room. She walked straight to the shower and pulled off her clothes and stepped in. It was amazing, she had never had a shower before and if she wanted hot water she had to boil it first. After an incredible shower she walked over to the closet and opened it experimentally to see if there was anything in it and found that it was full of clothes approximately her size. She chose a green blouse and black pants. Her hair had already dried and she just walked around for a few minutes then she herd three sharp knocks on her door and she opened it to Effie trinkets permanently hysterical eyes.
"Time for dinner!" She said it like it was the best new she had ever received. Arya just nodded and fallowed Effie to the dining car. Katniss, Peeta and Hayden were already there. She avoided looking at Hayden altogether; it hurt too much to look at him considering their situation. Oh well odds are someone else will kill him before I have to.
"We will be pulling into the capitol station in about 12 hours so at like eight in the morning." Peeta said sort of randomly. She thought he said it just to fill he silence. And the look that Katniss threw him confirmed that. The rest of the dinner was just awkward silence, and Arya prefers it that that way. Not having to make awkward chit-chat with the person you were planning to kill. Or plotting how you might survive the first day with the people who were basically sending you off to your death. After everyone had finished the rich supper of capitol food they went to the room that had a television and watched the recap of today's reaping. It gave Arya and Hayden a great opportunity to size up their compition. There was a girl from district 1 that looked quiet but deadly, and I monstrous boy district 2 who looked like just sheer muscle. But there was one tribute, a boy from district 4 that looked hauntingly familiar but she couldn't quit place from where. He was lean but had toned muscle and looked almost cat-like and the way he watched everything unnerved her. After it showed the reaping from district 12 the program ended and Arya headed off to her room and was suddenly exhausted and just stripped down to her underwear and crawled into the silky sheets and drifted off into oblivion.
