❛ 𝑺𝑰𝑳𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬- 𝘵𝘩𝘨

Chapter 8

At around 1, Mazie shook me awake, and I took the next watch. I'm quite surprised no one had attacked us yet, since we were out in the open near a water source. I kept feeling like there was someone watching us, but I tried to shake that feeling away. Still, someway, my knife made it's way into my palm as I gripped it tightly.

Then, I saw movement out of the corner of my eye, so I quickly threw my knife at the figure. Suddenly, there was a cannon, as my eyes widened. Had I killed someone? I slowly made my way to the place where I threw my knife. The knife had made it's target. I pulled it out of the chest of the girl from district 5. I closed her eyes, feeling guilty. Ideally hadn't wanted to kill anyone these games.

I walked back to where Mazie was, as she was sitting up, wide awake. "What happened? I woke up, and there was a cannon, and I didn't see you! I thought you died!" She signed, reaching over to hug me tightly. "It's okay. I'm alive. I killed the girl from 5 on accident."

She reached over and grabbed my shaking hands. "It's alright. I'd rather you kill her, then be killed by her."

That brought my brothers words back into my head. "They're throwing you into the arena to kill, and be killed." He was so right. I told Mazie that she should try to go back to sleep, so she laid down, and soon, her breathing slowed. Around dusk, she woke up.

"Can we have food?" She asked me. I nodded, before going through the food she had gotten at the cornucopia. I grabbed a granola bar, and broke it into fourths. I handed her a piece, and I let myself have a piece before stuffing the other half back into the backpack. After breakfast, we walked to the waterfall to get some water.

Suddenly, two cannons went off. "Two more tributes died." I told Mazie. Then, a girl with long, curly hair came sprinting extremely fast into the clearing. "ADA! MAZIE!" Squirrel shouted, running to hug us. "Squirrel!" I signed. "I'm so glad you're okay!"

"I'm so so sorry, Ada. Me and Bolt ran into each other and we allied, but then the careers came. The girl from 2 killed Bolt, and I managed to kill the boy from one. I ran away, because it was just those two, I think the other four must have been at their base." Squirrel rambled on, barely taking a breath.

"It's okay. I didn't know him very well..." I signed.

It's true, I didn't know him well, but I still felt sorrowful. Actually, not just for him, but for everyone in the arena. We're all children, and it's not fair that they're making us kill one another.

Squirrel nodded, and got a scoop full of water to drink. The rest of the day went quietly, with no more deaths. Squirrel ha the idea to make a hammock out of the piece of fabric, so all three of us lay on it as the fallen came on. The boy from district one, Jasper's, face came on. Then, Bolt, and finally, the girl who I killed in the morning.

At seeing Bolt's face, my eyes filled with tears. "I'll take first watch." Squirrel told us, so Mazie and I drifted off to sleep. Only 13 more tributes left...