When she says the name Wyatt Callow, the world stops.

But Wyatt doesn’t scream. He doesn’t tremble.

He just walks toward the stage, knowing that today the Capitol has decided his life is over.

But this time, the Reaping doesn’t end with forced applause.

When Drusilla Sickle calls the second male name, the tension in the square explodes.

Woodbine Chance, a boy from a notoriously rebellious family, tries to run. He bolts through the crowd, dodging arms and shouts, looking for an escape. Screams echo as some try to block the Peacekeepers, buying him time.

Bang. A shot cracks above the uproar.

Woodbine’s body drops to the ground, his blood staining the square’s cobblestones. His mother screams and throws herself onto him, but the soldiers rip her away brutally. District 12 rarely rebels, but today the fury is too great. Someone throws a stone, then another. A Peacekeeper fires into the air, and the next sound Haymitch hears is a hail of bullets.

In seconds, the Reaping turns into a massacre.

The square erupts into chaos. But the Capitol does not tolerate chaos.