District Nine and three quarters

Muffie's

Muffie's had been open for a couple of year but I'd never seen it as busy as then. Muffie Collins had turned the entire ground floor into a doctors surgery. Riza and I pushed the queue to the reception desk aside.

"I said I'd be back Tili," Riza said solemnly. Tili nodded. Riza pointed to the door at the far end of the corridor. We hauled Arnold inside. The room was a small room. The walls were covered lines of shelves and the shelves were lined with bottles of ointments, remedies and pills. There was a large table in the centre of the room. Louien was laying on the table and Muffie and Amirita were standing next to her. Muffie looked up as we entered the room. 

"Place him on the table," she ordered. We did as we were told. Muffie took a jar off a shelf and opened it. It was full of a thin, green liquid she poured it over Louien and Arnold's back.

"They will be OK in a few days but you should leave them here until then," Muffie told us. We all nodded in unison,

"Come on," Amirita said to us, heading to the door, "lets leave Muffie to it, we should go find the others." Riza and I followed her out of the room. 

"So," so I said as soon as we were outside, "How do we find Comley and Gregory?" Amirita shrugged,

“I don’t know, they are obviously being held captive somewhere in the district but I don’t know where,”

“Maybe they will be outside the justice builds being punished like the others were,” Riza suggested but Amirita shook her head,

“No, the crowd departed once they’d finished punishing Arnold, they wouldn’t have if the capitol were going to punish Comley and Gregory after.” We were all quite for a moment, trying to think of what to do,

“I know,” I cried, “We should ask!”

“Ask them were Comley and Gregory are, yeah because they are really going to tell us,” Amirita said sarcastically,

“No, I mean we ask them if there’s going to be any more punishments coming up and if there is it will be them!”

“Worth a try,” said Riza. The three of us left Muffie’s and head back towards the justice nervously. None of us were that keen on going but we were determined to find Comley and Gregory. There were two people standing on guard outside the building when we arrived,

"What do you want?" one of them balked,

"We want to ask someone about punishments," I said, trying to sound confident. It must have worked because the man walked off to fetch us somebody. It only took a moment for the guard to return with another capitol man,

"So what do you want to know?" The man asked,

"We were wondering if there were any up an coming punishments?" Amirita asked,

"Ah, you enjoyed our little public punishment did you?" The man said a little too merrily. We didn't answer. We didn't want to say "yes" but to say "no" would blow our cover! However the man didn't seem to be two bothered that we didn't answer, "Well there are several punishments scheduled for this evening. Does that answer your question?" We all nodded our heads in unison. "Good."