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It is only a week until the Reaping.
The nervous energy surrounding this fact seems to be starting to swarm over District 12 like mildly annoyed crows. Not close enough that everyone panics but close enough that you can feel it's presence looming over you. It's the very same energy that returns once a year as July 4th draws closer.
Katniss Everdeen normally doesn't pay much attention to it with her focus being on putting food on the table. But with this being Prim's first year eligable for the Games and her being very much affected by the energy beginning to rise surrounding her. So Katniss has been more aware of it this year.
She breathes a deep sigh as she walks back to her house in the Seam after spending the day hunting in the Woods with Gale. It was mostly trading with the meat they got and collecting medicinal herbs as her mother was running low and they already had enough meat to last as it was stored a few days ago.
She is pretty much ready to throw everything she got today on the table and then collapse face first on her bed and then sleep until Reaping Day. Despite that when she gets in she puts everything down and orgainses everything before going to tell her mother what she got.
However, when she does the first thing she notices is the fact that this isn't her kitchen.
The second thing is that the door slammed closed behind her. And upon trying to open the door again she found it locked.
After staring at the door for a second in genuine confusion she then turns back around and then notices for the first time she is not alone. In fact there are three other people in this room.
District 12's only living Victor Haymitch Abernathy.
Strangely one of the District 4 Mentor's Finnick Odair.
And even stranger, Peeta Mellark, the boy with the bread.
She must have stood there and stared at them for too long because Peeta just shrugs at her and says "we don't know either."
"What's your name?" Finnick asks.
"Katniss Everdeen." Everyone else then introduces themselves even though it is not very necessary.
Looking around she sees a room without much furnature. All that's in it is a small table with a book on it. As well as a note on top of the book. There is also 5 doors.
"Will admit this is the last thing I expected to happen today." Haymitch slurs.
"We've already looked around the room before you got here and there's no way out." Finnick expains. "Those doors seem to lead to bedrooms and the other one a kitchen."
"So whoever brought us here intends for us to be here for a while." She sums up and Finnick agrees.
"Why, we don't know?" Peeta says.
"The note not say?" Katniss asks nodding at the table causing the other three to look at it in shock.
"That wasn't there a second ago." Haymitch says confused.
Peeta picks up the note clearly wanting to figure this out.
"It's instructions." He says.
The book lying on the table contains events of the future. You have been brought here in order to discover this future, learn from it and then change it. Bring about results with less blood shed and pain. Time is frozen outside this room so take as long as you all need. Reading will start tomorrow in this room when you all are here. Do not worry about food and drink everything will be take care of. LEARN!!!!!
Everyone is silent for a minute. Just staring at the note in Peeta's hands in shock.
"So according to the creepy note we're reading the future." Haymitch sums up skeptically.
"Whoever this was literally teleported us and froze time and the book is what you're questioning." Peeta exclaims.
After a moment Haymitch gives a nod of acceptance.
Not knowing what else to do everyone ends up going to a room each and settles down to sleep to prepare for the morning.