The Search For Home

by Maleficent-darkgoodwitch2416

Two months after leaving Nanthia, Cinderella enters the Hunger Games. She returns to Nanthia five years later, a changed woman—emotionally and psychologically scarred from what she endured—as a tribute and rebel. Will she be able to recover from the traumatic events of the arena and fight her past? Or will Lady Tremaine prevent a full recovery for her former stepdaughter and maid?

14. Nightmares

"Sh, Firefly, sh," Johanna murmured as Katniss murmured, "It's OK, Fire Girl, it's OK."

"It happened again—Mary's death and Rue's death and Lily's death and Rose's death and Prim's death and Jessamyn's death and I killed my ex-stepmother—in the seventieth arena." Rella sobbed.

Katniss and Johanna both hugged Rella.

Then Lady Tremaine hesitantly entered the room and murmured, "Let me talk to her."

Katniss and Johanna nodded, reluctantly, and as they left, both signaled that they didn't trust the elderly woman.