Graveyard

Even in the midst of the day, an eerie shadow falls over this place. Somehow, the Gamemakers have engineered this tower to perpetually resemble night, and it only adds to the eerie atmosphere; the chill doesn’t come from the sudden drop in temperature compared to the arena outside, nor the cold spots a few degrees colder from the surrounding areas, but instead from the realization that the neat rows of headstones inscribed with the names and districts of the fallen tributes from years past — every year past, from the start of the Hunger Games. 59 rows of 23 headstones — over a thousand in all — span the entire area, each row finished off with a statue of the victor in some graveyard pose: donning angel wings or a hooded robe, weeping, praying, holding flowers, glancing skyward or looking towards the living tributes with pity. In the very back of the cemetery, the headstones of the twenty deceased from these Games have already appeared.