Your parents had spent the past few days arranging a graduation present for you, a congratulations for being the top student of your class and claiming the Plinth Prize. (It was supposed to be Coriolanus', but no one had seen him since the Games.)

One day, after breakfast, your mother took your hand and led you down into the basement into the servants quarters, where the maids and Avox's lived.

Upon reaching the end of the hallway, she told you your surprise was inside. An Avox? That was unexpected..

You reached out and opened the door, only to be met with the one and only Coriolanus Snow, curled up in a corner, shackled to the wall by his ankles. He looked.. Horrible. Pale skin, bones protruding from all over, sunken eyes and hollow cheeks. He barely looked human.