Sorry for the late chapter, guys o.o Hope you like it ^^ Next time it's the arena :3 I'll possibly re-upload a couple of chapters to correct some mistakes, but I'll write the next chapter first :)

I got up before the sun. It was early, and I could've slept a few hours more and be well rested for today, but I had to try again.

To start with, I apparated round the room, assuring that my accuracy was as good as ever. I smiled when I landed exactly on the tooth paste spot I'd made on the floor while brushing my teeth ten minutes earlier. I breathed in deeply before thinking of my room back in St. Ives. For a moment, the ripping feeling from when I got here returned, and I smiled relieved. I'm going home now, I thought, but suddenly his face appeared in my head. It slipped away, everything, and as only his face remained, I turned up in front of my window in Capitol.

Wait a sec.. I thought, as I fell towards the street, too in mind to think of screaming. Desperately, I turned around in the air, and spinning faster and faster downwards, I hit my bed with a slight screech.

"No more apparating," I told my self reluctantly, thinking of home. Thinking of him.

I must've fallen asleep again, 'cause I woke up with Coleene sitting besides me on the bed.

"I guessed I should've talked tactics with you anyway," she said, staring at a white spot on the floor, the tooth paste spot. "About the interview, I mean."

"Yeah, guess so." We were both silent for a while, then she looked me straight in the eyes.

"I don't know what you did in there to get that 10, but whatever you did, you're good. Give them hell from the very beginning, and the gamemakers might forgive you."

"What if I don't?"

"Just..." She left the room.

Walking to the hovercraft-thing, that should bring us to the arena, I had this strange feeling, that all the guards were staring at me, when I didn't look. Then it occurred to me. Of course. They must have the streets watched. They saw me this morning. But they didn't do anything, so I chose to forget it for now. If they wanted to kill me, they could do so easily. I'd better worry about what I had a chance of preventing, like getting killed by anyone else. I sighed. There was nothing but death in sight, wherever I looked.

I didn't get nauseous over the flight, but I did feel a little sick about the needle they used to put some weird electric device in my arm. I'd heard about the most, my mum had a job in the muggle world, so I knew about cameras, doorbells, electric light and even alarms that prevented thievery, but I'd never heard of them putting things into peoples arms, that could track them down like the Ministry could trace under-aged magicians. Maybe they had learned some kind of magic, I thought amazed, poking the spot on my arm, which made some sort of lamp blink in there. I giggled shortly, and glares pierced my body from all sides. I lowered my arms.

As soon as we landed, all the tributes were led in different directions. I was led to an underground room, where Tophia waited for me with a hug and a suit.

"Are you all right, child?" she asked, worried.

"I'll be fine. I am fine. What is that?" I pointed at the cloth in the hands, and she held it up for me to see. It was very simple, really. A brown t-shirt, a dust-grey, solid, warm jacket with matching pants and some brown boots, probably designed for wanderers.

"Well, let's get it on!" she exclaimed, but I shushed her.

I need you help, I mouthed with my bag to the camera. Without turning a bit, I pulled my wand out of my sleeve, where I'd hid it this morning. Her eyes grew big, but she was silent.

I need this with me. She watched my mouth carefully, and I moved it slowly. Please. She hugged me once again, and I sighed relieved as my wand slipped down an inner pocket in the jacket. The sound of a zipper was clear, and she let go.

"Now, stop crying my friend," she said loudly. "You have to be up there in two minutes!" I faked a couple of sobs and dried away unshod tears while I dragged the cloth on. She tugged me into some kind of glass tube.

"Take care," she said before I was carried up into the sunshine.