Chapter 10 Turning Tables

Anti-Careers, I think to myself, good name. I walk with a smug smile on my face back to dinner. As always, I eat too much, the food is so good and so rich I just can't help myself, but I am always left with the consequences, feeling sick.

Once in my room, I shower again, and then change in my trackie-bottoms and tank top that I use as nightwear since the nighties are too short and revealing for my taste. I soon drift off...

I jolt up shaking, sweat soaking my forehead. I peel off the strands of blonde-brown hair that are suck on my face and take deep breaths. What does she want with me? I think, that woman, she wants me, she wants me dead. I had had the same nightmare.

I was in the cell, screaming and shouting as before, but no Katniss walked in. A old, old woman walks in like before, her eye sockets deep and as dark as hell. Her stringy grey hair tied up and her skeleton body rotting. She was terrifying.

"Mayla" she had croaked, "The Mockingjay shall pay for my Aunt, she...shall...shall" every word seems to echo and seem a great deal of effort.

"I am real, Mayla...Hawthorne" she knew my last name "I will get what I want"

Her veiny hand stroking my cheek, I wanted to pull away, slap her, but I am frozen

"Beware of what comes ahead, you...and your siblings" her hand around my throat now "If Mockingjay won't burn, maybe her family will..." at this she pulls out a long sharp, but rusty chipped dagger, and raises it above her head "You are not safe anywhere...not here, in the games or 12" She means the district "Let dear Katniss know...that Coin burns within me!" she shrieked pulling down the dagger into my chest.

I shiver at the mere thought of the lady and her dagger. "Coin burns within me" I recall, who was Coin? I slide out of bed, and into a chair with a Screen-tablet on it. A Screen-tablet is modified version of what they used to call an IPad. It is a lot bigger, better, has 3D and holograms. I haven't ever used one, so it takes me about ten minutes to find out how to turn it on. Turns out you need to use voice command, so in the quietest whisper I can manage-"Turn on" Nothing "Screen-tablet turn on" Nothing? I sigh "Please..." I beg, the screen lights up, I almost shout out. Too bright! I think, How do you dim it? "Dimmer please!" I groan, rubbing my eyes. the tablet dims enough for my eyes to adjust. At the top of the screen, it says- "Tickle to unlock" then an arrow pointing to the middle of the screen. Stupid Capitol Machines! I bang my fist on the screen, but a teary face appears with the subtitle "Oww". I growl, I resort to then giving it a small rub then a happy face appears with the subtitle "Thank you! xxxx"

It finally, after a lot of tickling and hugging, gives me a Tablet-page on a history Tablet-site about Coin.

"In the rebellion of the Mockingjay, Alma Coin, the President of District 13, played a key part in the winning of the Capitol. Coin helped Katniss Everdeen (also known as the Mockingjay) overthrow the Capitol. District 13 then captured the Capitol's President Snow and Katniss was assigned to execute him in front of the entire country.

"When it came to the time of Snow's execution, Everdeen, suddenly, out of a mental condition-" Sounds right "-Accidentally shoots Coin in the left eye with the arrow that should have brought Snow's death. It kills Coin and Snow, who secretly drank poison before the aforementioned date, died anyway."

I sit back on my chair, my gran killed Coin...How can that be? I knew already that Katniss lead the rebellion, won it and suffered serious and permanent mental confusion, because of all the deaths, especially her sister. Primrose Everdeen was only fourteen when she died. Blown-up just like her father, by Capitol bombs. Everyone is delicate on the "Prim Subject". Especially Gale, he either shouts at you, runs (well hobbles) away or gets teary. He's hiding something, I know, but I don't know what. I turn back to the Screen- tablet and click on another link after a second of loading this comes up-

"After the Rebellion of the Mockingjay, new President Paylor ruled for twelve years before marrying Adol Diddlerye. They then had a son, Uden Diddlerye had been ruling ever since he turned nineteen..."

Blah, blah, blah! Heard it in history! I skip to a page about Coin,

"Alma grew up in District 13 with her mother and two sisters. Sadly her oldest sister, Yanalas, was killed by the Capitol, like many others when Finnick Odair revealed the secrets about the President in front Panem. Yanalas had a girl the age of five when she was killed, and the girl, no name is known, was entrusted to Alma, who kept her a secret."

At that I turn off the screen-tablet and go back into bed to think.

Blye was here because of what Finnick did. I was here because of what Katniss did. We are here for a punishment, somehow Coin's niece had got Paylor on her side and brought back a game more horrible than the Hunger Games. I can't win, I think, one way or another, Blye and I are here to be killed for revenge...