-A wonderful little challenge: Get a dictionary, flip to a random page, and point to a word without looking. Voila! You have a prompt!-

a/n [Sorry I was so slow at updating!]

Apologize: v- express regret for something one has done

(Seneca)

It's rumored that there always comes a time in every Head Gamemaker's reign when he or she must make a deadly choice. This year, however, one man is determined to change that. He'll be the best Gamemaker that Panem has ever seen. But then two new opponents enter the game, and everything changes.

His split-second decision costs him his life. He looks at the bowl of nightlock berries; too small and innocent for power over life. Sorry to disappoint you, President Snow, he apologizes. But the only thing he's sorry for is mixing his life into the wretched Games.