Melting Snow // Coriolanus Snow

six: East Area

Alara wasn't even disappointed, and neither was she shocked. Sejanus had apparently brought her to the 'East House' that was owned by plinth family. Standing in the middle of the kitchen of the small house, Alara realized that the plinth family pockets were extremely deep but their hearts shallow.

The house was rather small, and ugly but Alara nor anyone in the crew mind it. It had two bedrooms, a small kitchen, a bathroom and a dingy living room with a dirt ridden brown sofa infront of an old television. The television looked so old that Alara was sure that these version were last seen and used during the districts revolts.

Now that she stand in the corner of the living room that was attached with open plan kitchen, and ran her eyes through out the area, she realized that the house was not just old but filled with gauntness of the war. This residence was probably last used in the war, years ago and has not been touched or used since.

The boys were all sharing the one room, Polo, Nyx and Egan on bed while victor took to the couch, and Alara was sharing the room was Inna. It was cold, and they were in in cold weather suitable clothes. Sejanus was embarrassed when he realized how unresourceful and empty the house was. The boys once again gave the thicker blanket to girls while they all shared a thin bedsheet and poor victor was using Nyx jacket as a cover.

However, after trying whole night and failing the battle with her insomnia, Alara had given up the blanket and allowed Inna to cuddled into it like a warm potato. It was 3am hen she had walked out of that dreadful room.

Because the dark grey roof, and walls of the room kept closing on her, making her feel as if it would collapse on her at any moment. Now she was standing alone by the window that was in the living room, looking out of it and on to the streets on East area; it was like capitol own personal district.

She been standing by the window for hours, and for a hundred time, a cold chill ran through her body and she couldn't help but shiver. Her teeth clenching hard against each other. The sun rays were on the horizon seeing that it was 7am, and she had spend her whole night standing by that single window looking through it.

And finally the town was awakening, slowly but gradually it was getting a bit more lively. The children were walking through the streets with their tiny schools bags, while the women and men herding out of their homes for their business.

At the sudden shiver in her body, a thought ran through her mind, and taking the liberty Alara walked toward the fridge that was align by the wall.

Slowly and very carefully she opened the fridge door and took a peak inside, fully prepared to see a beheaded head of a human chilling there randomly, but a frown fell upon her face when the fridge when empty and pristine clean from inside. As if no one used in for a years and seeing the condition of the house that was probably true.

At the empty fridge, her stomach rumbled hard enough for her ears to listen and she groaned annoyedly at it. Not being able to solve her hunger, Alara stepped toward the stove, and turned it on to at least felt a little warm but anger boiled in her body when the stove made dead noises of ticking and produced no fire.

"Fuck!" She finally slammed her fist on the stove, with tears of frustration and helplessness aligned with her brown eyelids. She hasn't ate anything since she left district 12, and that journey took a whole day which felt like forever, and then she spend a whole day sitting in Plinth's residency to have a 5 seconds interaction with them.

In which Mrs. Plinth literally called them poor and smelly, and her husband ask Sejanus to throw them in some bug ridden single unit apartment. She was about to head back to her room and take a small an hour nap because the sun was on the horizon and would rise in few minutes.