Numquam Certus

Despite being only sixteen years old, Winslet Elowen from District Sever carries the weight of the world on her shoulders. The only daughter in a family of morticians, she spends most of her free time with her mother, tending to their garden and preparing bodies and eulogies for services. However, after her mother's unexpected death, Winslet is left to lead the family's funeral home with hardly any help from her father and her brothers. Not only that, she's forced to question the one thing she thought was true, that death is beautiful.

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Before she can find an answer, she's reaped for the Ninety-sixth Annual Hunger Games and whisked away to the Capitol. Though she isn't the strongest, she is adamant that she will not be joining her mother in an early grave. 

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There's just a couple problems. One, she's going to need allies and she's never had a friend her own age. Two, how on earth is an undertaker who's been brought up to care for the dead supposed to kill people?