"Hello!" The voice rang out from the depths of the train car. Then the face emerged. I recognized him as Asher Knight, winner of the 54th annual Hunger Games.601Please respect copyright.PENANAFrDQeohCvT
"Hello," said Lilac, the other tribute, "I'm Lilac."601Please respect copyright.PENANA0oq9nLUVe9
"I know, I saw you getting reaped."601Please respect copyright.PENANAeZJuB4vHDK
"I know you did, I'm just giving you a formal introduction."601Please respect copyright.PENANAC1uxxSOx4i
"Well, in that case, I'm Maisie."601Please respect copyright.PENANAHMq5ODixrO
"Wait! Where's Anika?" Blurted Asher.601Please respect copyright.PENANArhET6lnTqM
"What? She's in the dining room," Lilac explained.601Please respect copyright.PENANAyI7igezTgX
"Why?" Both Asher and I asked.601Please respect copyright.PENANAkFIsGLxGEI
"How do I know?" And that concluded to conversation. Lilac retreated to her room in the train, and I moved to the dining car to get lunch, where Anika and Anton Duval, winner of the 48th Hunger Games. were talking. Oh, did I mention that Anika and Anton like each other. A lot.
As I was grabbing a roll from the table, Anton asked me, "Are you in here for tips for the Games? Because I have lots."601Please respect copyright.PENANAZa4ZS6g0RN
Sure, I'd love tips, but he won the games by hiding in a cave, setting traps and waiting until almost everyone was dead. Then he came out with all the weapons from his victims, and brutally murdered the last few. No offense to him, but that isn't my style. It's gruesome. Plus, the hiding wouldn't work now, the game makers are too smart. They learned from his win, that they should just start a fire in the cave, or have it collapse, so that they get more encounters.601Please respect copyright.PENANAzmE6Kdo718
"Um, thank you, but no. But I might take you up on that offer later."601Please respect copyright.PENANAKiuGvOyuGR
I watched as he and Anika left the room, leaving me to sit down and eat.
"Are you OK Maisie?" It was Asher.601Please respect copyright.PENANAjOQDmiwatw
"Yeah. I'm fine. I'm just thinking about my younger brother. I don't know how he'll handle this. My older sister and my mother can, but he's twelve, and I'm the person he goes to when he needs help."601Please respect copyright.PENANACvrB1W353o
"Oh...," 601Please respect copyright.PENANAegQjSlhrbJ
"It's okay, I'm not expecting any sentimentality. Is Lilac okay, I think you're the only one who would check. Anton doesn't seem like the type."601Please respect copyright.PENANA1Md8Y3YfUC
"Yeah, she's fine. She's kind of in her own world."601Please respect copyright.PENANAOipMtY4QT8
"Well, Glad she's ok." I said, standing up, heading the back of the train, and looked out the windows, seeing the city approch.
"Hi Maisie." It was Lilac, walking into the room601Please respect copyright.PENANA1X7Y1QuY9V
"Oh, Hi Lilac," I replied.601Please respect copyright.PENANAUutqgNIsd2
We talked until the train stopped. We hadn't seen each other anywhere in the district, but we got to know each other so well in those twenty minutes
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