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Haymitch

I have the watch tonight so Hoster can go to bed. My remaining tribute, Star, spent the night in tiny cave in that weird twisted forest. She spent part of her day building a blind for her cave and the rest looking for food. She grabbed a water container before she fled the cornucopia, it was practically lying at her feet and she found a stream last night to fill that up. Her biggest problem was that she didn't have anything to eat. She didn't seem to want to leave the forest; even with all of its fog and creepy hanging moss. I swear I saw a bunch of mushrooms close their eyes when she walked by. After a couple of hours she came upon a grove of fruit trees. Now let me tell you-during my time in the games I learned not to trust any food that grew on any trees in the arena. Everything in that arena so many years ago was beautiful, and every bit of it was deadly. The only safe food came from the cornucopia or sponsors and only the rain was drinkable. A nice grove of fruit trees in a dark scary forest looks suspicious to me but apparently not to Star. Star's different anyway. She seems to sort of float through life with her head in the clouds, only her District Partner told me that it's not in the clouds it's in the medieval stories and history books that she dug up in the library basement. Something about being a princess waiting for some knight on a white horse to carry her off. That bullshit was in the basement for a reason; so little girls don't get foolish ideas about a life that will never happen. I kinda think that maybe that's why Star doesn't want to leave the forest. She feels comfortable there because it reminds her of a story.

So, the girl finds the fruit trees and begins to fill up her pockets and the front of her shirt with it. Suddenly the air around her is filled with silver sparkly insects or something and they may or may not be whispering. They seem to make a tinkling sound and Star turns around and talks to them. I squint at the screen, oh God they have faces! Maybe they're fairies or something, whatever they are it can't be good they're obviously mutts! Everything seems fine though until Star turns to walk away with the fruit. The silver fairy things seem to get agitated and start swarming. More and more of them come out of the trees. Star starts to run and they fly after her, surrounding her, attacking her and she's screaming and I can't see what's happening through the cloud of fog and silver wings. Suddenly a cannon blast rings through the arena and almost instantly the silver things disappear. I get a closer look at poor Star: all of her hair had been pulled out piece by piece. She had tiny bite marks all over her body that oozed a venomous green liquid. Poor Star, she died for taking delight in a fairy story. Turns out fairies aren't so sweet after all and this story will have no happily ever after. God damnit!