Granja's is longer because she had to set up some of Diggory's. His is short for obvious reasons. I don't know what specific trigger this would be, but Diggory is pretty upsetting.

Granja Valdez POV

The other girls always tended to cluster around me during the Reapings. I wasn't the biggest or the strongest, not that that would have helped them anyway. I think they wanted to be near someone who cared. Most of us thought only of ourselves during the Reaping and were too scared to remember everyone else. I was scared for all of us. They went to me to feel secure, but I was the most scared of all.

Chimera must have gotten through the Capitol's drama, since he was still with us and wasn't dead or Avoxed somewhere. I'd expected him to be nervous, but he looked the same as ever in his favorite powder blue suit.

"Good morning, everyone," he said as though half of his friends hadn't disappeared and the president herself hadn't just died. "Let's get some names! How about the boys first?"

He squinted when he opened the slip. He held it closer to his face and then pulled his head back like a chicken. He looked both ways and spoke up hesitantly.

"Uh... Diggory?" he said. Every head in the crowd snapped forward the only person outside of Fluvius we could all recognize. It was a boy a year younger than I was- the only one here who wasn't afraid of getting Reaped. He still wasn't afraid.

Everyone knew about Diggory. That wasn't his real name, as far as we knew. Things like this weren't supposed to happen in Panem, and he was our shame as well as our greatest enigma. We didn't even know he existed until he was twelve. When his father died at home, friends came looking for him and found a filthy boy chained to a bed. It was the first time Diggory ever came out of that room. He couldn't speak, he could barely walk, and as far as the doctors can tell, his brain hardly got past that room. He always stayed with his keeper, and she was trying to sneak him toward the back of the Reaping center when a Peacekeeper ran at her and belted her in the head with his nightstick. The blow knocked her away from Diggory and he bolted in a random direction. The Peacekeeper scooped him up and carried him to the stage.

I wouldn't have thought a Reaping could get any scarier. The girls around me were crying as they watched Diggory squirm on the stage. I would have thought this was too low even for the Capitol. Chimer looked guiltily at Diggory, then looked offstage and pointed at the bowl. He shook his head as if in response to someone, then moved to the girls' bowl. He laughed nervously.

"AndnowforthegirlsGranjaValdez!" he blurted. I pasted on a smile to hide my terror as I scurried onstage, but no one was looking anyway. Standing next to Diggory, I almost forgot to be scared for myself. He was clinging to the Peacekeeper and whimpering. My chances for the Games were that much better than they would have been otherwise, but it wasn't worth it.

Matron Aisley brought some of the orphanage children to see me off. I was glad I didn't have parents that would be scared for me. I was even gladder I didn't have parents like Diggory's. Everyone was still shaken up about it all. The children gave me a whistle I used in the fields and left quickly. Or maybe it wasn't quick. I was so scared it was hard to keep track of time. Diggory must have been even more scared. There wasn't much hope for Nine this year.

Diggory POV

Hold Kasha hand. Walk. More walk. Leaf touch Kasha pull. More walk. People. People. Kasha. People. Want walk home. Want no noise no people want Kasha. Want name man blue.

Sun hot. Sky blue. Clouds. Clouds pretty. Clouds shape. Not square. Not circle. I want name shape. Want touch cloud. White cloud pretty cloud. Put hand up touch white cloud.

Kasha walk. Pull me. I walk Kasha. Walk home. Good walk home. Kasha pretty.

Big man stick. Man take stick hit. Hit Kasha. Father. Father stick hit. Sad hit Kasha. Kasha blood. Blood hurt stick Father. Sad hurt Kasha. Scared. Run.

Man stick hold me. Hold air cloud. Scared hold stick hit. Scared. Want Kasha. Kasha. Kasha hold me. No man stick.

Blue man. Man stick. Scared. Scared Kasha. Kasha me walk home. No man. Kasha. No stick.

Noise. Blue man noise. Me noise. Look Kasha blood. Look Kasha man man hold Kasha. Man man Kasha leave. Kasha walk stage hold hand. Kasha no leave. Scared.

Girl. Girl pretty not Kasha. Blue man hold hand. Girl hold hand. Man stick take girl hand.

Sit room not home. Not see Kasha. Room small Father. Not see Father. Kasha open door walk home. Kasha now. No small room Father. No bed chain Father. Home soft blanket red walls Kasha. Kasha. Kasha.