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Prologue

The Arena.

'As the plates rise, the sun blinds me for a second and then I see the greenish, greyish Cornucopia in front of me. I always thought it is bigger, seeing the Hunger Games couple of times from the Tv, but once again, I'm proved wrong. It's about five metres high, oval, like a loaf of bread or like a rock, but with a smooth top. The perimetre must be over fifteen metres, because I can't see my district mate anywhere.

I look to my right, to my left, around me, while the other tributes keep frightening each other with their murderous glares and stares. All I see is forest, forest all around me and then some mountains to my right, which look at least ten miles away from where we are standing right now. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't reach them with a day. My legs just wouldn't allow me to.

I glance to my right and a boy from District 10, judging by his ugly brown jacket, takes his time to inspect my body and me. Finally, he just growls, to which I snort. Really horrible my ass.

To my left is the girl, I avoided in the training centre. She doesn't growl at me, just winks and points back to the Cornucopia. Weird.

I smile. Turning back to the Cornucopia, I know exacly, what I'm going to take.

Swords.

I dash from my plate as soon as the bang indicates the beginning of this years Hunger Games.

Everything is going according to the plan.

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