To the one asking if she still had her wand, as you can see yes, she does ^^
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I woke up slowly, yawned and stretched with content.
"Jane, are you up?" I asked without opening my eyes. No answer. Wasn't it a bit silent? People should be stumbling tiredly around the dormitory, mumbling about the cruelty of school mornings while brushing their teeth, but there was only the sound of my breath. Did they leave without me?
"Bloody hell!" I yelled and jumped out of bed and paused as sudden as I had jumped. I need to get home, my only thought was. Now!
I grabbed tightly around my wand, clutched my teeth together and turned around on the spot, thinking of Hogsmeade. The next thing I knew, I crashed hardly into the room wall, no more than 20 feet away from the bed.
"Jessica!" Coleene said from outside. "What are you doing in there?"
"I fell. Sorry!" I shouted.
"Get out here, and don't break anything," she groaned at me and her pace disappeared into the dining room. I looked at my wand in despair. Why didn't it work? At that moment it appeared to me, that if I couldn't apparate out of here, there was nothing I could do but participate in their games. Nothing.
I dressed quickly, trying not to dwell on what I'd just realized. At least there was a delicious scent of egg and bacon, which suited my roaring stomach. I hadn't eaten anything since I last had breakfast at Hogwarts. When was that? The day before yesterday? It felt like more, though I'd guess I'd be more starving if it was. I half-ran out of my room and very soon sat besides a tired Evanis, who looked grumpy at me. Instead of embarrassing myself by saying something awkward, I just sat down and started eating.
"As I said earlier, while the young lady was sleeping," said Evanis sarcastically. "You two are training with the other tributes today. This is in twenty minutes, so you better eat fast."
"Eat fast? It's not like it takes me a decade to eat.."
"No, but you have to talk privately with Coleene before going down there."
"Why?"
"Don't you know anything?" he snarled at me. "Go down there without a strategy, and you're doomed! Now eat up." I ate up and unwillingly left the table to follow Coleene, strangely enough back into my room, where she sat on the floor and I in front of her.
"We have two opportunities," she said, going straight to it. "One; you make everyone think you're weak – which you are, so that shouldn't be that hard – and you won't be so much of a target. Two; we make everyone think you're strong to get sponsors. The first is more likely than the second, but it can also get you killed. What do you say?" Should I tell her? I thought. No. She'll find out soon enough.
"Let's go for the first one."
"You do realize, that no one sponsors the loser to be?"
"Trust me on this one. I won't need sponsors," I said with a grim voice.
The training suit didn't have a skirt where I could hide my wand, so I tied it to my back, hiding it between my scapulars. It was pretty uncomfortable, but I wasn't leaving my only chance for surviving anywhere.
I used a lot of time learning to lit a fire. It didn't go so well, but that was mostly because, I also observed the others.
The guy from 2, Veile, seemed particularly dangerous. He handled the sword like a natural extension of his arm, and he cut the practice doll to pieces with ease.
But the other careers was no joke either. Yilo from 1 threw a spear so hard, that it went through the middle of the target and pierced the wall with a loud "clang". Opal, also from 1, somehow succeeded poisoning one of the trainers and stood watching him throw up with a heartedly smile, that no one would've guessed fake.
"What are you looking at?" a voice said from behind me, and I jolted away from it, my heart skipping a beat.
"Sorry, I-I-I didn't hear you," I answered the girl from 2, Dya.
"You see this one?" she said and held a knife in front of my eyes. "Before you know of it, it might be slipping trough your artery." I could feel the blood leaving my face in an instant. "Stop glaring," she hissed and left.