Allard’s mother liked to think she was a gardener. She wasn’t, and all the hot lamps and fertilizer in District Thirteen couldn’t make it so. Still, with the recent fire in a food storage location, more District Thirteen residents were called on to try to “grow at home.” So when Allard’s mother sent him to get seeds, he only grumbled a response and then obeyed. Standing in the domed store, he’d forgotten how routine these exchanges were, of no one asking for more than they knew they could get. He saw surprised, and immediately elated, to see a face he recognized from recent balls. “Nothing like the Capitol, is it?”