Fi-Fa-Faux-fum, I smell [Fi/Faux]

Fiona

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Food was not as dangerous as one would think. It was just nutrition for the body. It was simply something prepared, dressed up nice and sat there waiting to be picked among thousands of other foods. The table was like the reaping. Something about the layout just put me back into my place in my district. I was among hundreds of other girls both young and old. Just like that, someone snatched me up with their grubby fingers, brought me to the capitol and devoured me - or rather plan to devour my existence watching me on their channel sets.

I was fixed upon the spread. There was a wall in front of me keeping me from choosing as if I would choose death if I took the wrong one. As if I would take one that wasn't quite ripe or maybe one that had been sitting too long and poisons would eat away at my stomach.

"I'm not ready for this, Grandpa. I don't want to be here. I do not want to think that death might actually take me too. Did you thwart death's plan to take me when I was seven and that's why I'm here now? How many times did I escape only to get landed here by the odds of two fingers grasping a stupid piece of paper among hundreds?" I reach for a glass on the side of the table instead, filled with some potent smelling sweet stuff. I swirl the liquid but pause. I'd heard from someone once in passing conversation that there was a liquid to make you sick. If this was that very drink, would they send me from the training center due to illness. Would I still have to participate in this sick game?

"I may save you for later." I pose and wrap my fingers around it more possessively in fact while I long to try the very piece hiding from existence. I chose it among the other cracker stacks. It looked a little more bare, but those are the ones that carry the most flavor, I would assume. "Less is more?" The plate becomes partially full as I carry myself to a table of a bearded guy. My eyes linger on him for more than a moment. "So is your outer appearance as fake as your name or are you more than meets the eye?"