Rose on Fire

Chapter 70

(Snow POV)
I sit in my office watching district thirteen's citizens dig themselves out of the rubble on the security cameras they have there. They only have about 3 more days before they'll be out, a month till they finish rebuilding it. I walk out of my office and downstairs to the prison. I see Effie there with her young daughter. "What do you want from me Snow?" She says with anger and fear in her voice. "I don't want anything from you, I just need a good hostage, and you seemed like a pretty good choice," I say with a menacing smile. "You're a sick man," she says. "Over the next couple of weeks your going to experience more pain than you can ever imagine, but don't worry about Emily, she'll be fine," I say before leaving. I go to the dining room to see Celestia attempting to sneak sweets to her room. She gives me a nervous innocent smile, "Tell you what, you can have the sweets if you come with me," I say reasoning with her. She nods her head in agreement, and I lead her to my weapon room. I bring her to my favorite little shelf stocked full of organized poisons. I start showing her all of them, telling her their names and what their used for
I taught her all of them, while she wrote in her notebook about everything from chloroform, to cyanide, and even venom from a black mamba snake. I taught her that in order to fool your opponent, you must be sly, and clumsiness will end in death. "... You also have to figure out how to deal with pain, because I drank the same poisons my opponent did, I would get sores and scars in my mouth, this is also a good place to hide antidotes." "But wouldn't the antidote dissolve, if it was a pill it could dissolve before you needed it, hours before even, and then you would have nothing to save you," she says, I enjoy her enthusiasm in the subject. "You can always put it in a small plastic container, just small enough to fit the pill in, and easy enough to pop open with your teeth, plus you can swallow the container most of the time, but your digestive system can't break them down. So I do have  some stuff for you to work on over the next couple of weeks, I need you to learn to use a weapon of your choice, knives, trident, spear, crossbow, gun, bow, ax, or anything else of your choice, I also need you to work on your strength, and train like your going to the 77th hunger games." I say I know she's only 14, but if she does't do as told she won't survive this war, and if she's going to be the next leader of Panem, she needs to experience, and lead her people to greatness.