Under the Willow

Chapter 19

The first day of agonizing. Only 900 people survived in total. I only had one pair of clothes, a white dress with brown boots. And of course, my Buttercup.

  Most of the people that had severe burns died. Plants can only do so much. I've almost enter a period of slight trauma. This morning, I sat in a wheat field to just think about my thoughts in the cold air. Sometimes I question why Katniss shot the arrow, if she knew what the outcome was. Now, we are nothing. Just people trying to survive on the ashes of our district. 

    My thoughts were returned when Rory came and sat next to me. The night was cold, and I could feel the tip of my nose and cheeks turn red. 
" Hey." Rory said.
" Hey."
" Look, I feel really bad for you. I feel like everything is coming all at once."
I shrugged. " I guess I'm used to it by now."
" You shouldn't be." Rory remarked, which made me cringe. He looked down, a bit embarrassed.

   " Do you remember when I told you the story of the water nymph?" 
I nodded. Of course I did. Rory and I were talking by the lake, where he picked up a water lily. Then, he started to tell me the myth.
  One day, a man walked by a lake during the day. A women, with blonde flowing hair and light blue eyes stepped out, wearing a silk tunic. Soon, the man fell in love with this woman and visited her everyday. One day, he decided to propose. He used all his many to buy an aquamarine ring. Of course, she said yes. But her nymph tribe was angry, and killed the man in the lake in cold blood. The nymph was despaired, and gave up her life to turn into a water lily. So she could still live in her lover's blood.

  " You are my water lily, Prim. I would do anything for you."
I looked him in the eyes, and Hazel meet on grey. I was just about to hug him when the roaring sound of the hovercraft came. A ladder dropped down, and soldiers came down it.
" We are from District 13." they said.
" Come with us."

  As a man was pulling me into the hovercraft, I didn't feel rescued. I felt captured.
One soldier seemed to read my thoughts and replied to them. " It's okay, you're safe here."

But were we truly safe? I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

  End of Part 2