Calculating the Odds

I hide in the bushes. I can hear her talking. Foxface, she calls me.

I feel a pain in my heart. That is me.

I think of my mother, and how she calls me a little fox.

I'll never see her again. No one. I cannot win.

and now I know what I have to do.


Marin Rasmussen was the daughter of a high up engineer in District Five. She understood the games. She knew the games. She didn't fear them because she thought her father's position protected her. That is, until a mistake that cost the Capitol some luxuries threw her name into the reaping bowl dozens more times than required.
  1. chapter 1.
    the reaping.