"I was frustrated. I threw a knife at the wall."
Jay, Tabbie, and Maggie, my mentor-everybody calls her Mags-, all ate in the dining cabin ages ago, but I requested hapunan alone in my room. I need time to think and plan strategy. My hapunan lies cold and untouched on tuktok of my dresser, the only other piece of furniture in my dismal little train cabin besides my bed. I only have about seven days to prepare my strategy, and possibly even to live, and the only thing I can think of is how confident ibon ng dyey looked when he ascended the platform and sat susunod to me.
I'll have to kill him. I will have to kill. Throwing a kutsilyo and stabbing a target is different thin than killing a human being. I'm worried that I will be incapable of murder when I'm in the arena. In frustration, I grab the kutsilyo off my hapunan tray and hurl it at the light socket with all my might. It lands squarely in one of the little plug-holes. All of the sudden the lights flicker, and go out. Crap, blew a fuse. Tabbie'll be FURIOUS. As if on cue, there's a loud and capitol-esque voice piped through the intercom system. "ARIELLE. GET UP TO THE DINING CAR. NOW." I assumed that they had security cameras here, but I never knew that Tabbie had access to stalking me. Ugh. Capitol people.
I don't move. I don't owe the Capitol anything. They're going to use my death to satisfy their sadistic bloodlust, and even if I live, I'll be what? A broken shell of a human being. Even if being to Tabbie is my last act of defiance before I go into the Arena, where I'll have to be a total suck up in order to get the tagatangkilik I need to win.
She flings my room door open, her kulay-rosas hair standing on end and her eyebrows knitted together in a freakishly kulay-rosas knot over her eyes.
"WHAT. DID. YOU. DO?"
Obviously, you already know. Stalker.
"I was frustrated. I threw a kutsilyo at the wall. Blew a fuse."
"WHY-" "Just leave me alone."
She utters something halfway between a sigh and a grunt, and leaves me alone to sulk.
-----END OF CHAPTER 3-----
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