After Finnick Odair casually calls the reader āclingyā during a conversation with the capitol interviewer everyone around them laughs it off, including him. Even though he means it as a joke, the comment hits harder than he realizes. Instead of getting angry or starting an argument, the reader quietly withdraws from him.
Itās the seventy-fifth annual Hunger Games. The Quarter Quell. Y/N, whoād won for District 11 at the 70th games at just thirteen, was stood with the other victors for District 11. She was eighteen now, tougher and fitter than ever.
After the victory of Katniss and Peeta, Capitol City announces the Memory Edition: the tributes will be harvested among the winners still alive. But for District 11 the rules change: not having enough male winners available, a special harvest is called among the young people who had come closer to winning in past editions. The seventeen-year-old Diana and Thomas, the ace of the district, are chosen. Between the two there is a deep hatred: A year earlier, Diana's family had pushed past the fences of District 11 to look for food in the banned forest, an offence punishable by death. That same night, Thomas was also among the trees, desperate in an attempt to smuggle medicines to save his sick little sister. When the Peacemakers surprised them, Thomas, panicked and terrified by the idea of leaving his sister alone to die, diverted the guardians' faults on Diana's family to cover his tracks. That cowardly choice led to the immediate arrest and public execution of Diana's father in the district square, branding Thomas as an unforgivable traitor in the eyes of the girl. Now, catapulted together into the Memory Edition alongside Katniss, Peeta and Finnick, Diana is forced to face her father's indirect killer every single second. For her it's not just about winning the games, but about surviving alongside the only person she wants to see dead. Thomas, worn out by the guilt and ghosts of that night, does not seek Diana's forgiveness, but her salvation: he has secretly decided that he will act as a human shield for her against the traps of the arena and oth Now they will have to try to collaborate with each other.