DISTRICT 5
BASIC INFORMATION
Name: Merci Winters
Gender: Female
Age: 18
PERSONALITY
Weapon of Choice: Quick wit, but a bow if needed
Hobby: can play various instruments
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
Eye Color: green
Hair: auburn
Height: 5'4
Build: Petite
ALLIANCES
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STATUS: Alive
ITEMS: a bow and three arrows
REAPING DETAILS
The rain falls heavily from the sky, like icy, stabbing sheets pelting the hushed crowd gathered in the square, eyes all fixed on one thing: The hand hovering above the giant bowl, ready to pick out not only a name, but ultimately, a casualty. The knot in my throat is suffocating me, my muscles quivering from the chill brought on not only by the weather, but by this Reaping Day itself.
Why does that hand seem so frozen in mid-air? Why isn't it delving into the sea of paper and putting us out of our misery? I can't breathe for a moment, letting the horrible thought enter my mind.
What if that name is mine?
I hadn't even bothered to consider that fact today. Being eighteen with my name only in the reaping bowl once, I had previously told myself I was free. I could be free to struggle the rest of my life in District Five. Never in a million years would my name be read aloud in front of all of Panem.
But in one earth-shattering moment that comes tumbling down. My self assurance is useless and I am rendered speechless and breathless as the one name I convinced myself would not be spoken crackles through the silenced crowd.
"Merci Winters."
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