116 SECOND HEARTBREAK

The fleet is out to sea for weeks at a time, venturing out to waters previously considered too dangerous to fish. Finnick is lucky enough to have grown up on his family's trawler, but other children are not so lucky. Every week, it seems there is a new story about some untrained child being washed overboard by colossal waves, or strangled by the weighted nets, or withered away by dysentery from eating rotten seafood. These unfortunate children are tributes in a series of never-ending Games, except their loved ones aren't allowed time to mourn their deaths.