Inferno: A Hunger Games Fanfic

Chapter 7

For apology see a/n

Through the automatic doors is a dining room with a table as long as my room back home. It is groaning under the weight of all the food on the table. A lot of the food I've seen before, on the other districts stalls, but I've never seen it prepared in this way or in these quantities or in these colours.

Effie gestures for me sit between her and Meir, in front of orange peas. I sit down and pile a load on my plate then ask Meir to pass me a plate of seemingly mouth-watering gammon. As I'm moving it to my side, Effie coughs and begins to speak.
"Now we're all here I would like to get to know you,"

"What do you mean?" Asks Meir furrowing his eyebrows.

"Well let's start with, how can you kill someone in the arena?" Says Aidi " What?" He says in reply to Effie's look. "It's more helpful than 'what's your favourite colour' or 'which dres style suits you best'"

I think about killing people. I haven't really thought about it but if I'm going to survive the hunger games, I'm going to have to become a murderer. I push my food around my plate. Suddenly the gammon dosen't look so appistising.

No one speaks for a while and I am just beginning to eat again when Meir blurts out " I can fight. I am strong and I think I could use a sword." He pauses gives me a sideways glance and adds "And Hazel can throw knives. Very accurately. She's killed a bird 10 metres away. It's really scary."
Aidi looks impressed, Effie looks terrified and Meir has a somewhat smug look that makes me want to punch him. I resign to a death glare and stab my dinner as if it had done me some great personal wrong.

After my gammon slips off the table for the umpteenth time Aidi grabs some knives, a cheeseboard and a handful of grapes. Stuffing them in his mouth he gets up and asks us tributes to follow him. We go into a spacious compartment at the back of the train. Leather sofas are leaning against every wall and a adorned with cushions of every tone and shape. There are windows all around and above so it feels as if we could be outside. Aidi piles up some cushions from the end sofa and I have to resist the strong urge to jump on them. He then places the cheeseboard on the naked sofa and slides the handle of a knife into my palm.

It feels strange. It dosen't feel like the knives at home. I think of home and want to curl up under one of the piles of pillows and not come out until the games are over. But I can't do that. I can't feel because if I feel I will break, and if I break I won't get back home. I let my emotion escape with the knife, flying through the air until it hits the cheeseboard. Like the knife it should be secure there. Firmly lodged into the wood. Not with me. I can't let human things like emotion get in the way.

I am vaguely aware of Aidi asking a question and I ask him to repeat it. He rolls his eyes and enquires about how I learnt how to throw a knife. I widen my eyes with mock innocence.
"Dosen't everyone know how to throw a knife?"
He shakes his head and sighs but I can see the smile in his eyes. We start up a game where he throws a pillow and I destroy it with a knife. I never miss. By the end, I'm covered with feathers and happiness. Maybe some emotions are good.

The sky fades to orange, to pink, to blue and stars begin to appear. When I first spot one, shimmering against the flawless blue blanket that is it's home, I remember to make a wish. I don't wish to win the games. I don't wish for them to be cancelled. I just wish to be happy, whatever happens.

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