I arrive at District 12 just on time for the reaping of the 57th annual hunger games. We could have had a winner with Chale last year, but he was blinded by revenge. I have a whole brain of advice for my tributes now, and hopefully it will stop them getting killed in embarrassing ways. I go to the justice building and talk to the Mayors wife Maddie. She is wearing a beautiful golden mockingjay pin, and she tells me her twin sister wore it in the games. She is young, and look deadened beyond years already. But I smile and throw my fake hair over my shoulders and go out onto stage. I pick an older kids- the boy Edwin and the girl Edna. Edna comes back from training everyday and tells us she fought a trainer and won. Edwin tells us he always accidently hits the target with knives or bows or slingshots. He is very lucky. And he stays that way. He gets sponsors by laughing in the interviews, and he gets a bow out of the cornucopia. He lasts until day 3, when his luck runs out and he runs into the careers. Edna does better, and when she dies she injures the girl from 2 so badly she dies a few miniutes later. But at least Edna got the death she wanted, a death in a fight. The train seems even quieter this year.
Edna means fire
Edwin means lucky