Chapter 14: Clove

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The final test. We have to survive in the wild alone.
I go out as the blow horn rings, running into the woods. I look around, searching for food. I see a bird, lying on the ground, struggling to stay alive. As I pick up a rock, a fox runs out, baring it's teeth. I look at it, chuck the rock at it, and hit it right in between the eyes. It's eyes roll into the back of it's head, and it falls to the ground. I walk over to it, grab the rock, kill the bird, then, after finding a stick and sharpening it, I stab the fox, killing that as well.
I skin the fox to prove that I killed it, then cook it, as well as the bird, and have a good meal. I wrap the fox skin around me, using it as a blanket. After a while of not falling asleep, I walk around in the woods. Soon I find Cato, and I had got there just in time to see him kill a wolf. I watch as he picks it up and throws the dead body into the woods. I sit down, clutching the fox skin to my body, and fall asleep.
I hear Cato stirring, so I get up as well. I quietly creep away, going back to camp a different way. I hold onto the fox skin. I need it to prove that I killed a fox.
"What did you do, Cato?" some guy asks.
"........, and killed a wolf." Cato says. Everybody stares at him in misbelief.
"He did. I saw him kill it." I speak up.
"And what did you do, Clove?" the same guy asks. I look down, holding on tighter to the fox skin. I see Cato look at me worriedly.
"I killed a fox."

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