User blog:Kodyjo277/The 375th Hunger Games- A Quarter Quell

And the Quell Twist is…
A very old President Snow makes his way up to the stage, with support from a cane made of silver. Behind him is a young Capitol boy dressed all in white, following patiently in his footsteps. He is holding a box. A box that is known to contain many small, yellowed envelopes, created hundreds of years ago by the cruelest, most heartless people around. In each envelope are specific instructions for Quarter Quells. When the President finally gets to his podium, he carefully adjusts the microphone and begins to speak.

"Citizens of Panem. Welcome. As you know, you are watching live the 375th Quarter Quell card reading!" An explosion of cheering and shouting errupts from the Capitol crowd, all excited to hear what kind of vicious, atrocious twist is to be thrown at this years tributes. Meanwhile, the people in the districts are dreading to hear what the president's next words will be.

"You have all been waiting for this Quell for the past twenty- five years, am I correct? Yes. Either you were, as we do here in the Capitol, assidously waitng, or as the people in the districts do, waiting in terror. Any way, it is finally here, and it is time for me to read the card!" Another bust of cheering casts out from the crowd.

The little boy dressed in white steps forward, and, knowing that all of the camera's must be trained on him, blushes and tries to supress a smile. President Snow carefully unlatches the box's brown lid and pulls out the front card, labeled in big, black letters: 375th Hunger Games: The 15th Quarter Quell

The president slowly opens the faded envelope with a gold envelope opener and pulls out a wad of papers. The papers are the Quell's instructions, which must be very detailed in order for everything to go as planned. After shuffling through the papers a bit, Snow eventually finds a small notecard with writing that is to be read out to all of Panem. Snow reads the notecard to himself, then smiles slightly before boadcasting the twist to the nation.

"To remind the Districts that the Capitol has not only one, but multiple ways that we can defeat the districts in war and numerous methods to keep the districts in line and prevent them from rebelling, there will be several twists that will be announced frequently throughout the Games." With that, the president leaves his podium. But not before straightening the pure white rose attatched to his suit.

While the Capitol citizens are surely excited and anxiously awaiting the games to begin in a few months, the people in the Districts are terrified of what horrors their children will have to face.