When eleven-year-old Jordan Holiday’s name is called at the reaping, the world seems to stop — until Nicole Holiday, small, quiet, and unassuming to most of District 2, steps forward and volunteers before her voice can tremble. Across the stage, Cato Hadley — tall, lethal, and bred for the Games — volunteers with the kind of practiced confidence that makes the crowd lean back, but even he pauses when Nicole joins him. In training, the careers watch her like she’s a fragile tag-along destined to