Ships Slowly Sailing

by ramenpandaa

The Capitol knows all. Or so it thinks. Everyone has a hidden thought, a dark secret, a guarded memory. And even the Capitol can't take those away. An attempt at snippet oneshots. Rated T because it's the Hunger Games.

8. Nightlock

NIGHTLOCK (Foxface)

Before Katniss brought the nightlock up to her lips as a means of saving herself, another girl did too.

A girl with hair red as fire and a blazing intellect, wise beyond her years.

Foxface.

AKA Kumiho Faraday, No. 80863 Batch E.

District 5 is a place full of secrets, of mystery, intrigue.

Kumiho knows she is not normal, even in such a place.

She is an experiment.

They said she was a successful one.

They said she wouldn't be reaped.

They said she was too useful.

But still, she finds herself on a train heading towards the Capitol.

Towards certain death.

Until the end, she is still calculating, stealing, surviving.

Then she sees the nightlock.

Purple, juicy berries, laced with morning dew and the deadliest poisons known to man.

They're muttations too, Kumiho knows.

She helped create them.

Cyanide. Arsenic. Hemlock. Belladonna. A fatal dose of each is packed inside the little things.

The Capitol wants her to fight, right? That's all they want. A good show.

Kumiho brings the nightlock to her lips. She will die a quick, silent, painless death.

Goodbye, cruel world.