The Fox
I was here because I was 'chosen' by the Capitol's representatives in District 5, the garishly colored and hugely feared overseers of the labs. I still remember the day they arrived. A man and a woman like no one I had ever seen. She was tall and unnaturally thin, he was her complete opposite, short and fat. I had never seen a fat person before, and it almost repulsed me.
They introduced themselves as they fiddled with their matching electric-blue hair and adjusted their clothes, preening like the vividly-colored birds that we test new cosmetics on in the labs. We were instructed to complete a set of tests that I found relatively easy, and I was shocked when most of the others didn't. They called me ‘gifted’ and said my intelligence was almost abnormal.
Rubbish. If I was that intelligent, I would have realized what was happening and answered the questions wrongly. Then I wouldn't be living this life.
They introduced themselves as they fiddled with their matching electric-blue hair and adjusted their clothes, preening like the vividly-colored birds that we test new cosmetics on in the labs. We were instructed to complete a set of tests that I found relatively easy, and I was shocked when most of the others didn't. They called me ‘gifted’ and said my intelligence was almost abnormal.
Rubbish. If I was that intelligent, I would have realized what was happening and answered the questions wrongly. Then I wouldn't be living this life.