spoiler alert for catching fire the hunger games and maybe mockingjay in this chapter
I get to sleep quickly on my soft bed in my room but my night but my sleep is full of nightmares where masons mother traps Tazz and Buno in her basement and didn't feed them and they quickly died I woke up screaming, "What are you doing?" and soon Mason comes in and asks, "Why are you screaming?" I get up and tell him all about my dream and he tells me his mom won't do that. This is the first time since the reaping that I haven't felt like a criminal around Mason and for this I tell him the same thing I told Tazz. "My sister would volunteer, if she would be called," he says to my surprise.
"24 of us maason and one comes out unless you're my parents," I say with a smile and now I wish I wouldv'e payed attention to the stories that mom and dad used to tell me when I was in school if they would come in and speak about the hunger games and I don't know how they both won the same year. "I'll be right back," I say and walk to my dads room and wake him up and he yells "Katniss no," then he looks at me.
"How did you and mom win the same year?" I ask and he jumps out of his bed and says
"Don't try it thats why your mom died, we both threatened suicide because the gamemakers said if we were from the same district we both were district 12 so we could both win but later they said that only one can win when it came down to me and her and we didn't want to kill each other so your mother gave me nightlock berries and said on the count of three we would eat them so both of us would die then the gamemakers said that we can both win after we said two and we never died but we ahd shamed the capitol," then he looked at me with an odd smile and got back in bed. I walked out and told mason the same story.
"We can win," I say
"But, your dad said not to," mason says
"oh well," I say and look outside at the brightening sky and kellis comes in and calls us to breakfast.
I walk quietly beside Mason to our breakfast and look outside and see the capitol. It is huge. I wave because everyone is cheering and I motion to Mason and he waves to but I don't know if anyone can see at the speed we are going and I quickly eat a bowl of fruit and we are taken to our floor on the training building. Today we start training but we have only three days before our private session. Then we have the chariot rides and the next day we have interveiws. Dad takes Mason and I down to the training area. I see a bow and want to run to it and shoot repeatedly with Mason but dad stops me. "Keep your talent hidden, Tawny don't go for the bow or the weights. Mason don't go for the bow or knife," dad says.
I walk in after I nod and I see my competitors for the first time. The careers are district 1,2,and 4. The district 1 girl look strong with her short brown hair and she is very tall I'm guessing 18 years old and the district 2 girl is 12 years old and looks scared to death of everything. All the guys look strong except for the district 9, 10, 7, and 6. Who look really frail and under fed. The district 11 boy looks like he could kill me right here then I hear someone calling his name and his name is Chris like the butcher in district 12. I go to the survival station and see a small 12 year old girl with golden brown hair from district 10. I try to light a fire with a stick and its a long time before I get a spark. Then I go to climb the rope and it's easy because I climb all the time. Then later I see the careers coming over to watch me at the edible plant station as if this was an assesment.