The third was Sejanus.

Lucy Gray looked at Coriolanus.

"Listen, in the district," said Lucy Gray, looking at Coriolanus holding the rifle. "You have been given a letter to send you to the Two."

"That's right."

"Can you get your life back?"

He nodded with his head, Lucy Gray whispered. She looked for one of the hair strips that Maude Ivory always leaves in this place. She carefully wrapped the guns in a canvas and tied them tightly with the hairband.

Even with the rain wetting them, they dropped the guns, the weight caused them to sink to the bottom. They returned to the cabin, waiting for the rain to end.

Lucy Gray again surrendered to Coriolanus, knowing that this last time they would be together.

This boy would never survive in the North or when she no longer had courage, he would get rid of her. She drew Coriolanus' wide, pale back with her fingers.

When the rain stopped and they were dressed again, Coriolanus took a compass out of his pants and returned to District Twelve.

Tam Amber was at the entrance waiting for them.

"Mayor Lipp has committed suicide," he told them. "His maid found him hanging in his room. Everyone says he went crazy of the pain of losing Mayfair."

Lucy Gray whispered, with the mayor dead, there was no one to hunt her head.

• •

She didn't say goodbye to Coriolanus at the train station.

She spent almost a month inside her house, until she spent the time to meet her own standards to overcome a romance breakup.

A new mayor was elected, and he was a man of the Capitol, with a radiant child and wife.

Mayor Christopher Gilbert and his wife Lilianne.

A week after they arrived, they asked to see Lucy Gray.

'We saw your games,' said Mrs. Gilbert excitedly while she was serving her tea. She was beautiful with red hair and big hazel eyes. "The Capitol never stopped talking about them."

"Thanks." Lucy Gray had to pretend a calm tone. She still had nightmares with snakes.

"A telegram has arrived from the Capitol,'" said Mayor Gilbert, "They want you to leave in a week."

"Why did they back to me back to the Capitol?" asked Lucy Gray.

'It will be President Ravinstill's birthday, and he wants you to sing on his birthday,' replied Mayor Gilbert.

Lucy Gray opened her mouth as she felt the panic passing through her veins. She didn't want to go back to that place where some people expected to see her dead.

• •

She sang, as an artist could pretend joy.

The president praised her as the most charming of the women that have ever existed in Panem. She pretended to sneeze at his words.

The golden dress given to her for the occasion gave the illusion that Lucy Gray had bathed in melted gold.

In the distance she saw Coriolanus and a hatred formed in her chest when she heard that Strabbo Plinth had named him the heir to his fortune and were paying for his university education.

'It is good to see that you are all right,' he said, trying to talk to her.

"Not as good as you, as I hear," replied Lucy Gray, moaningly, before taking a glass of champagne from some of the messers and moving away from Snow.

• •

They had again requested her presence for the Eleventh Hunger Games.

Mags Flanagan quickly became her friend, had given their the privilege that letters could be sent, but they must always be examined by the Commander of District Twelve and Four.

They didn't care, they communicated, that was enough.

• •

She met Erik Everdeen in the middle of one of Covey's performances in the Hob.

He was tall, gray-looking, but above all kind.

He invited her a drink while Maude Ivory was singing.

'I'm... I'm nervous,' said Erik, rubbing his neck.

'Why would you be nervous?' smiled Lucy Gray at the nice boy.

'I've seen you for years" under my head timidly "and... you're very beautiful and I'm just stupid."

Lucy Gray laughed a little, drank her drink just when Tam Amber started singing a ballad. She without hesitation pulled Erik out of the seat and dragged him to the track.

The music was slow and Erik Everdeen seemed to sneeze to the ears, something that Lucy Gray found very adorable, she put her hands on the boy's shoulders.

'You seem very adorable to me,' Lucy Gray smiled. "And your eyes are lovely."

Erik lowered his head, very shuddered at her words.

• •

During the seventeenth edition of the Hunger Games the announcement of the life payment to the victors was made as well as the construction of the Victor's Village.

Calling it a generosity of the Capitol.

Lucy Gray knew the truth, that would provoke resentment within the districts, separating the Victors from the other people in the district, if there was a gap.

Although she felt frightened to take the check in her hands, it meant that she could keep the Covey.

His relationship with Erik was flourishing, he ascended to captain of the mines and began to go out every day he had free.

The two sometimes crossed the fence that was placed (very badly installed) on the outskirts of the District, spent their evenings in the lake, exploring each other as a couple in love.

• •

Lucy Gray had to go to the Capitol several times a year.

For some party that they asked her to sing.

For the party that was held after the Tour de la Victory where each victor was obliged to give a speech to the districts, in order to lower their morale. Lucy Gray thanked the ancient gods for never having a victory tour.

For the Games.

So every time she came home it was a relief for her.

• •

Lucy Gray married Erik Everdeen in the late autumn of 24 A.D.D

Lucy Gray was sent to make a simple but beautiful wedding dress brought from the Capitol, designed by Tigris Snow, the only sincere friendship she had in the also made a veil that she called "Juliet Veil" with beautiful embroidery.

She decided that one day this veil would pass to her daughter.

As for the law, they signed the documents in the Justice Building. It was Mrs. Lucy Gray Everdeen when she got out.

Many in the District congratulated them on their marriage and those closest to them, such as the Nightingale, whose daughter was the girlfriend of Clerk Carmine, the seamstress and the district butcher (who was doing business under the table with Erik's illegal hunting), Miles Hawthorne, who was Eric's best friend, attended the Toast that was given at Lucy Gray's mansion in the Village of the Winners.

The Covey sounded and she danced joyfully in her husband's arms.

With her wedding, he could find out what trace of feelings for Coriolanus Snow.