❛ 𝑺𝑰𝑳𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬- 𝘵𝘩𝘨

Chapter 9

At around 4, Mazie woke me up to start my round of guarding. Nothing happened, so, once Mazie and Squirrel woke up, there wasn't much to fill them in on. We got some after, before having a tiny bit of food. "These games seem to be going pretty fast, with already 11 tributes dead..." Squirrel told us while we were munching on a slice of bread.

We stood up, and decided that we would move around a little bit. Squirrel offered to show us where the careers were located at, and we concluded that if we wandered around a bit, we didn't want to end up on the wrong side of a weapon, so we started walking trough the bamboo forest.

As we were walking, we heard a cannon noise and screaming, so we quickened our pace, most likely out of nerves. The screaming continued, and got louder with each step we took. Soon, Squirrel came to a halt, and crouched down. Me and Mazie copied her, and I saw a girl with short, curly hair screaming over a body with dark hair. The careers were smirking, standing next to her.

I saw with great satisfaction, that there were only five now, (Thanks to Squirrel) and the girl from two who killed Bolt had severe injuries. I saw the girl from two mutter something to the other four, and then suddenly, she threw a dagger. There was a cannon noise, and without even looking, I could tell that the girl with the short curly hair was dead.

Something inside Squirrel must have snapped, because she stood up, and threw a knife at the girl, and there was a cannon boom. But then everything broke loose. I grabbed Mazie's arm and started dragging her back the way to the waterfall. There were screams behind us, but we kept going. We made it back to the waterfall, breathing heavy as we climbed up to the top of it.

When we saw that no one was following us, we sat down on a rock to check our injuries. Miraculously, we had close to no injuries. I had a cut on my upper arm, but after gathering leaves, the bleeding stopped. Suddenly, a girl with long curly, orange hair came running to the waterfall for the second time in less than two days.

Mazie and I hurried down the hill, and when we out to the bottom, we hugged her. When we pulled apart, I saw that up close, she looked worse. There was a cut on her cheek, and on her leg, but it's a small price to pay for killing someone. Mazie collected some of the leaves that I had used a few minutes ago and handed them to Squirrel.

Like yesterday, the afternoon pasted with no new deaths or important events. At dusk when the fallen came on, it started with the girl from district 2 that Squirrel had killed. Then it was the girl from 6, and the girl from district 8. I started to drift asleep, because my guarding period started at 12.

I hope that you can rest in peace, Bolt, knowing that someone avenged your death. Even though that means children killing other children. Over and over again, until there's no one standing. And I just hope that it's me.