Chapter 47: The End

With Plutarch Heavensbee's help, Grandpa Haymitch, Zephyr and I flee to District 13.

A huge war rages over Panem, led by the girl tribute from District 10, that eventually leads to the downfall of the Capitol and the destruction of the Hunger Games forever.

Afterwards, I return with my half-brother and surrogate grandfather to District 12. We live in Victor's Village, where no one bothers us, even after the district's population begins to trickle in or otherwise replenish, little by little.

I am grateful I will never have to experience the arena, yet I still mourn for my parents. For my Mama and Daddy and Father, and what they sacrificed so that our country could be free.

For Zephyr and me, we each carry our own legacy: he the legacy of the Mellarks; I the legacy of the Hawthornes. We are each, in our own way, a child of the Games.


A/N: And that's all folks!

Child of the Games was more than just referring to Riley (and to a far lesser extent, Zephyr), in that they hailed from arena tributes. It was meant to show how tributes who become Victors are essentially birthed in the arena, insomuch as they become different people. They are children of the Games, too.

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