Chapter 3
I wake up, I look up to see the time on the wall clock, four am, I guess the games are getting to me. I step into the the bathroom connected to the room I've been sleeping in, Saskia says it's called an en suite. I go into the shower and see a hundred button on a control panel, I click only two button labelled 'Summer rain' and 'Raspberry bubbles'. The water feels lovely it just about about rains in District 11, after about two minutes I'm showers in bubbles scented of the berries I had just yesterday for breakfast, was it yesterday? Yes, it must have been, it's feels like it was years ago. I find another button labelled 'Auto-dry' and click, I'm dried in five seconds flat. When I get out, I put the clothes I had on yesterday, and find a jacket, I don't think the Capitol will be warm as I'm used to. I find my way to the end of the train, Odin is there, sitting on a chair that looks to be made of leather, like the ones in the Justice Building. He turns around and sees me,
"I'm sorry this happened to you," I can tell he means it by the look in his eyes, but he walks out of the room before I have time to say anything back. When I sit on one of the sofas and realise how cold it really is, I'm glad I'm wearing the jacket because if not I'll probably be an ice cube by now. I stare at the world the train left behind last night, my world. I watch the sunrise, and head to get some breakfast. I remember my mum telling me to eat as much food as possible, likely remembering the Hunger Games only five years ago, where there was only weapons in the Cornucopia forcing the tributes into the jungle where a new trap was set off every hour, but that was a Quarter Quell, my games couldn't be nearly as bad can they?
I head to the dining car, Odin, Chaff, and Seeder are there, it must be a District 11 thing, getting up early. I sit in the place I did yesterday, three drinks are set out in front of me, raspberry juice, I made this a lot at home, a drink with some what vile smell which I think is coffee, and a milky brown drink which I've never seen in my life. I hear Chaff tell Odin it's hot chocolate , I guess he has had it enough times to know what it is. I reach for some bread, it is seeded and shaped like the moon, just like at home, I just some hot chocolate, it warms my body and tastes delightful. I guess Saskia was planning something in her private room, as she comes in now, she must have been the District 11 escort for long enough for to know we all get up earlier than the other Districts.
"Oh what a busy day we have ahead," she chirps happily, "But last night you forgot to to watch the reaping catch up," I think about how I didn't, I couldn't really be bothered, but I guess now I have to. Saskia turns on the TV, and the reapings start, I notice only a few people, a sixteen year old girl from 1, a boy who I think is deaf from 5, a girl from 7 who has a curing glint in her eyes, and a girl who is also thirteen from 12. When it is over, Seeder stands and takes me to a side,
"When you get to the remake centre you will be in the hands of your prep team and stylist, you won't like it, but do anything they want you to." I nod I don't want to, but my first public appearance is important one, I need to look my best. As I move back to the others, the train blacks out we must be moving through one of the mountain tunnels to the Capitol. When the light starts to come back through the windows, me and Odin rush to them. I see the Capitol, it is beautiful, the city looks like it is made of sweets. I see that it is so beautiful, I love it. We come to the station, thousands of Capitol citizens are cheering. I wave at them, blow a couple of kisses, when I relieve these people are betting when I'm going to die.
