XII.

Long before she swung an ax into the tribute 2's chest, Johanna played with dolls.

Small, plain dolls, carved from wood with a glossy finish. She had between 20 to 200 of them laying about everywhere.

She carved them herself- she took an ax and carved the same doll over and over and let her mind give them faces and characters.

The dolls varied from district to district from all walks of life. Only, with Johanna's dolls, they all looked the same.

The dolls that resembled district 12 were just as plump as the ones that resembled district 2.

The dolls that resembled the capitol were fashioned the same as all the other dolls- plain wood brown, glossed over.

One day, when a few socialites from the capitol came to film footage of Johanna's home district, and one of the ladies from the capitol saw Johanna's wooden dolls.

The lady, just as any other citizen of the capitol, was intrigued like the young girl were a zoo attraction. Johanna pointed out what each doll was like and where they were from.

When she got to the capitol doll the lady's face got quite sour. She questioned why the doll from the capitol looked like that- plain and naked just like the other district dolls.

From that day on, Johanna made sure the dolls she made that were to be capitol dolls were fashioned with birch wood, far more delicate and a far cry from a plain wooden doll.

But Johanna never changed the fashion of all the district dolls, she made sure every one of them were equal.

So when Johanna's ax got embedded into the tributes chest, she couldn't help but think about how she always made all tribute dolls equal, how they both were the same wooden dolls she made.

Johanna met Katniss

Johanna never played with fire before.

But what Johanna does know is that-

Birch wood burns faster.

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