Taking place 2 years before the first book/movie, Katniss finds herself without hope. Her Mother and Sister have been taken ill, her food rations have run out, and she was powerless to help them. Reluctantly, she's breaks a promise she had made to herself and sold the only thing she had left. Herself.
Lyra Vale, abandoned as a child and scarred by the foster system, steals food out of desperation. Caught, she's sold into "Bridled Hollow," a brutal program "rehabilitating" girls. Stripped naked and transported, she witnesses girls horrifically transformed into ponies. Lyra undergoes dehumanizing intake: shaved, examined, and forcibly fitted with restrictive leather gear—bit, harness, tail plug, hoof boots—silencing speech. Defiant Lyra is assigned to Madam Sorrell, noted for breaking "spirited
Joe knew what the cons were trying to do. Girly him up so he'd turn gay. Well, they could take their best shot, make him suck a million dicks, fuck his ass silly, but he'd still be as straight as all hell when he got out in less than nine months. There was no way he was ever going to like doing it. No way whatsoever!