I am taking to a train that will take us to the glorious, and overly dictated, Capitol. "People" walk less than a foot away from us while we walk up to the tubular train. When I get into the train, I think I see a spotlight shining onto an enormous stack of food. I quickly go to the food and grab as much as I can.
"A little hungry there huh?" Someone's says which made me scream and drop some strawberries.
"Oh it's you." I say looking at my district partner.
"Yup!" He says giving a smirk. "So I heard your name is..." He stops to think. "Lily?" I smile.
"Yes it is, and you are?" I ask taking a bite of a tiny sandwich.
"Quill" he says, giving me a smirk. I finish the sandwich and Roxxy comes in.
"Hello, my wonderful little tributes" she says with her annoying, high pitched Capitol accent. "You darlings must be, Quill and Lily? Am I correct?" We both nod yes. I hear foot steps. "Sit sit! Your mentors are coming!" Roxxy says excitedly. I sit in a beautiful blue chair. It probably is from district 1. Quill doesn't sit down. Instead, he roams around like an idiot. One of our mentors walk in. He has a cigar in his mouth. A trail of smoke follows him. Quill coughs when the smoke hits his face. I'm used to the smoke because the master smoked. Daily.
"Congratulations." He says "I'm Snapper. One of your mentors. I don't know where Slate went." Snapper says. He looks drunk and high. He's a mess! His brown hair is all over the place and his eyes are red, pink, and puffy.
"Slate? Who's Slate?" Quill says.
"Your other mentor." Snapper slurs out as he plops down on the chair across from me with the cigar smoke blowing in my finally sits down next to me with a handful of bread and butter. He shoves one in his mouth.
"So what do we do when we get into the arena?" I ask.
"What you think?" Snapper says and puts the cigar between his teeth. He blows out smoke.
"Survive? Don't die?" I ask.
"Yup. Survive." He answers. I frown. He not giving good advice. I hear the door slam behind me. I look and see Slate with a beer in her hand. She has a beach blond hair with no bangs. Her hair is the same as Snapper. Messy. Slate tries to make her way to the chair but she bumps and falls into things. She surely blackout-drunk. She finally reaches the chair.
"Well these are our tributes!" She says. Quill and I look at each other.
"I'm guessing your our other mentor." Quill says.
"Yes, and your point." She says taking a long sip of her beer. She hardly waits for an answer, before returning to her beer. "Needs more." She mumbles to herself. Slate takes out an alcohol jug and pours it in her beer bottle as Snapper blows more smoke in my face.
"So what do we do during the bloodbath?" Quill asks. Slate puts her head back.
"Ugh! I can't give all the answers." She sighs and takes a sip of her beer.
"But we never got any advice!" Quill raises his voice.
"Listen. Some things you need to figure out. By. Your. SELF!" She says loudly. Snapper blows more smoke in my face not having a care in the world. I start to get angry.
I stand up and try to grab the bottle out of Slate's hand but she keeps fighting back. I finally slip it out of her hand. I throw the bottle on the ground. It's shatters. Some alcohol gets in my face. Roxxy gasps acting like this is the worst thing she has ever seen. I grab the cigar out of Snapper's mouth and crumble it up in my hand. The embers burn my hand, but that's the last thing on my mind. I throw it in the alcohol. Snapper stand up.
"LEAVE!" He yells pointing to my room. I stomp out, trying to seem mad, when really, I feel terrible. I get a glimpse of Quill. He gives a pitiful smile and turns around. I walk into my room. I plop on my bed. I didn't have any pjs so I fell asleep in my reaping clothes.
I wake up and go to the main place in the train. When I walk in the room it goes completely silent. I get stares from everyone.
"Can I have some eggs?" I ask. An avox puts a plate of eggs in front of me and walks back to their spot. I look around. I feel like they all fear me. Is that good? The train stops when I finish my eggs. I look out the window and see the Capitol. I quickly run to the window. I see the Capitol people cheering and calling my name. I smile. I give small waves. They go crazy.
"Now now, we have to go meet your prep team!" Roxxy breaks the silents. I walk away from the window. We are taking off the train and taken to the huge training center.