She didn't want to be here. Did anyone? She supposed not, but she especially didn't want to be here.
However, when she saw him, she knew it was fate. She was always a believer in fate. Perhaps it was also fate that gave her the item she received. Was divine intervention on her side? She was a secular woman for the most part, so she doubted there was an angel or god watching over her.
But fate was.
She looked down at the backlit screen which displayed every contestant and their location, as well as the map of the Arena. She was going to find that man. She was friends with him in high school, she recalled as she trudged through the bushland: Peter Anson.
It's definitely fate that brought us to the same Game ... Perhaps this is fate telling me to escape?
Thoughts were racing through her mind. Lots of them. Most involving fate, of course.
Unless he's a volunteer, not a regular contestant. He always seemed so kind at school, so maybe, just maybe, he won't be a volunteer.
But people were two-faced. That's what her mother always said.
And yet, she didn't seem to think he was a volunteer. In fact, she had a gut feeling he was a regular contestant, picked by the merciless Government.
She zoomed out on her little tablet that displayed the Arena; she saw a village close by. She'd make haste towards it. Perhaps she could pick up a weapon there, but she didn't get her hopes up; after all, the Government was cruel, and they wouldn't allow contestants to stock up on anything. But then why would the village be here? What would be the point of it?
She decided to go check it out.
Once she arrived, she noticed immediately a service station, petrol tanks and all -- I could probably make a bomb if those tanks have petroleum in them. She doubted they would, though. But there was something odd that she noticed about the building, then she immediately directed her eyesight towards the little tracker. Somebody was in a house nearby, it seemed. But not only that, somebody had already been inside the service station.
She couldn't risk it. She'd have to put up with the stale government bread and the water.
However, she did see a crowbar by the door, as if it had been dropped, as though it were a toy a kid didn't like anymore.
She snuck towards it, picked it up, and made her way towards the little blip on her tracker.
It was up to fate now.
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The Government Game
Acción'The Government Game' is a Game imposed by the Democratic Peoples of Australia's Government. Each year, on a randomly selected night, a number of contestants ranging from five to sixty (another random factor) are taken from their beds and made to pa...
