Hermione Granger and David Nolan
District 11 - Agriculture
Hermione was in the field, harvesting the corn. Her stomach grumbled as all the food passed through her hands. She glanced around her. It would be so easy to put one of them in her pocket.
A yell further down startled her. She looked up. One of the other harvesters had tried what she was thinking. He was beat down again and again by the Peacekeepers. Everyone who’d stopped working quickly started again when another Peacekeeper threatened to do the same to them.
Hermione lowered her head and continued picking corn.
————
David ploughed the field. His shoulders screamed at the strain. He gritted his teeth and ploughed on.
The field was just harvested, and now had to be prepared for the next seeds to be sown. He heard a commotion further ahead, but he didn’t try to listen to it. If he did, he might do something noble and foolhardy.
Instead he went to plough the next piece of earth.