Maysilee Donner dũng cảm disengages mình và Thủ trưởng cơ quan ngang cho sân khấu, tôi bắt một cái nhìn thoáng qua của mẹ tôi ở tuổi của tôi, và không có ai đã phóng đại vẻ đẹp của cô. Giữ tay và khóc lóc của cô là một cô gái trông giống như Maysilee. | Oh I say. She was my mother s friend. The camera finds her in the crowd clinging to two other girls. All blond. All definitely merchants kids. I think that s your mother hugging her says Peeta quietly. And he s right. As Maysilee Donner bravely disengages herself and heads for the stage I catch a glimpse of my mother at my age and no one has exaggerated her beauty. Holding her hand and weeping is another girl who looks just like Maysilee. But a lot like someone else I know too. Madge I say. That s her mother. She and Maysilee were twins or something Peeta says. My dad mentioned it once. I think of Madge s mother. Mayor Undersee s wife. Who spends half her life in bed immobilized with terrible pain shutting out the world. I think of how I never realized that she and my mother shared this connection. Of Madge showing up in that snowstorm to bring the painkiller for Gale. Of my mockingjay pin and how it means something completely different now that I know that its former owner was Madge s aunt Maysilee Donner a tribute who was murdered in the arena. Haymitch s name is called last of all. It s more of a shock to see him than my mother. Young. Strong. Hard to admit but he was something of a looker. His hair dark and curly those gray Seam eyes bright and even then dangerous. Oh. Peeta you don t think he killed Maysilee do you I burst out. I don t know why but I can t stand the thought. With forty-eight players I d say the odds are against it says Peeta. The chariot rides in which the District 12 kids are dressed in awful coal miners outfits and the interviews flash by. There s little time to focus on anyone. But since Haymitch is going to be the victor we get to see one full exchange between him and Caesar Flickerman who looks exactly as he always does in his twinkling midnight blue suit. Only his dark green hair eyelids and lips are different. So Haymitch what do you think of the Games having one hundred percent more competitors than usual asks Caesar. Haymitch shrugs.
