Audiobook (Fiction) Demo Reel
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Chapter one, I clasped the flask between my hands. Even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air, my muscles are clenched tight against the cold. If a pack of wild dogs were to appear at this moment, the odds of scaling a tree before they attacked are not in my favor. I should get up, move around and work the stiffness from my limbs. But instead I sit as motionless as the rock beneath me. While the dawn begins to lighten the woods. I can't fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I've been dreading for months. By noon, they will all be at my new house in the Victor's village. The reporters, the camera crews, even Effie trinket. My old escort will have made their way to District 12 from the capital. I wonder if he will still be wearing that silly pink wig or if she'll be sporting some other unnatural color, especially for the victory tour. There will be others waiting to a staff to cater to my every need on the long train trip. A prep team to beautify me for public appearances. My stylist and friend Sina, who designed the gorgeous outfits that first made the audience take notice of me in the hunger Games. If it were up to me, I would try to forget the hunger Games entirely. Never speak of them. Pretend they were nothing but a bad dream. But the victory tour makes that impossible. Strategically placed almost midway between the annual games, it is the capital's way of keeping the horror fresh and immediate. Not only are we in the districts forced to remember the iron grip of the capital's power each year, we are forced to celebrate it, and this year I am one of the stars of the show. I will have to travel from district to district to stand before the cheering crowds who secretly loathe me to look down into the faces of the families whose Children I have killed. The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand. All my joints complain, and my left leg has been asleep for so long that it takes several minutes of pacing to bring the feeling back into it. I've been in the woods three hours, but as I've made no real attempt at hunting. I have nothing to show for it. It doesn't matter for my mother and little sister prim anymore. They can afford to buy butcher meat in town, although none of us likes it any better than fresh game. But my best friend, Gale Hawthorne and his family will be depending on today's haul, and I can't let them down. I start the hour and a half trek it will take to cover our snare line. Back when we were in school, we had time in the afternoons to check the line and hunt and gather and still get back to trade in town. But now the gale has gone to work in the coal mines, and I have nothing to do all day. I've taken over the job.