When we get to the dining carriage none of the others are there yet. We sit at a table laid with fancy plates and cutlery with a basket of bread and two little ramekins with butter. I stare at the bread. Maris smiles 'you can have some if you like' she says. I grab a slice of bread and I notice Maris is watching me. I don't know much about her, I know she was seventeen when she won the 3rd hunger games so she must remember the first, she must remember the rebellion. The victor's village isn't near where I live so I only see her at the hunger games but I've heard she's quite kind although that only makes you wonder how she won because as they say no one decent ever wins the hunger games.
I'm disturbed in my thoughts by Ceres coming in and behind him Xabina. Ceres stares down at the basket of bread and I can tell what he's thinking: he's working out how much bread he could sneak into his pockets. 'Ceres' I say reminding him where he is. He gives me a weak smile and squeezes in beside me.
When we're all sat down the capitol attendants appear and serve us. There is a lot of food. As we eat Xabina just blathers on about 'isn't this just so exciting the first quarter quell!' and Maris just keeps offering us more food. Once I'm full to bursting Maris says we should go to catch the recap of the reapings now so we stand up and go into another carriage with a television.
Xabina switches on the Television and we catch Emi Cett mid-sentence introducing the recap. It starts from district 1 and works its way through to 12. I notice that in the career districts the tributes seem to be proud that they won. The girl from two particularly scares me; she must be about 18 and she's very big but it's not so much that as the look in her eyes that really freaks me out. Other than the careers the tributes are mainly skinny although a few of them are quite tall. Other than possibly the boy from 7 I don't think any of them are as young as me but quite a few of them don't seem that much taller than me or look any stronger than me.
After the recap I somehow find my way back to my room. While I sleep the girl from 2's face haunts my dreams…
Sorry its so short but i'll try to do a longer chapter next time.