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The Face of Fear: Alea Welsh

Clowns made of mud, bloodthirsty donkeys, and giant mangos who created smalltalk.

Just. Great.

Alea sat awkwardly  between Papillion and Bluestone as she slowly sharpened her fan,  readying it for the possible terrors to come.

"Well are we going to  the ferris wheel or not?" Pebbles declared to the group standing up and  wiping off the dust on her pants. "Fine then, lets go." Phalene said  standing up also as Alea followed. The new arena was unfamiliar to Alea,  eerie shadows blanketed the ground as the faint orange light from the  dawn shone across the fair. Rising high above the scraggly surrounding  trees was the ferris wheel, carts slowly rocking back and forth in the  cool breeze.

~

Somewhere behind an  abandoned popcorn stand, ten mud figures grew up out of the ground,  wearing a wrinkled up clown suit with a clumpy afro clotted with mud as a  wig. One by one, they walk out from behind the stand right in-front of  the small group of careers.

"What the!" Phalene  screeched as one of the creatures lurched out a large hand trying to  grasp her neck. Quickly springing into action, Parabella pulled out her  dagger and sliced off the mud clowns hand. The clown made a low hiss of  pain as mud cascaded from the hole in his arm, steaming and shrinking  into a pile of foul smelling mud.

"Lets get out of here!"  Alea said giving a nervous look at the mud, waiting for it to grow back  into a clown, but as they walked further and further away the pile still  sat motionless. Once the mud was out of sight the flutters in Alea's  stomach screeched to a halt as a blanket of comfort seemed to wrap  around her. She was with two other well trained careers, possibly better  then her. She wouldn't have to worry bout' nothing.

For now.

Somewhere out of sight, a  shrilling bleat came out of one of the mutts, the followed by a low  scream that could only belong to a male, and none of them wanted to  think of what could be happening to that tribute at the moment. Six  packs were stacked on top of each other, all in the very top cart of the  rickety ferris wheel.

"I'lll go!" Phalene said  as she started to walk towards the ride, but Pebbles ran up to stop  her. Pulling Phalene close to herself, Pebbles hissed something to her  face that Alea couldn't quite catch, but it whatever she said seemed to  change Phalenes mind.

"Hey Alea, you are  smaller then all of us, so it might just be easier for you to go."  Phalene said ending with a sweet smile. Alea raised her eyebrows, but  decided to keep her tongue tied and not start a fight. Clapping her  hands on the sandy ground for an excuse of chalk, Alea wiped her hands  along her pants before pulling herself up into the cart.

Rocking the cart back  and forth to a shockingly extreme, Alea dropped to the floor of the cart  frantically attaching herself to something. Looking up above her head,  she saw the next cart was feet away, far to far to jump clear the gap  safely.

Taking a deep breath,  Alea shook out her arm as she gripped onto the large metal support beam,  climbing her way up to the top cart. And for a girl who could barely  fight properly with a sword, climbing the some two hundred feet climb of  the ride would prove to be difficult.

Already struggling, yet  not even half way, Alea was about ready to quit. She was getting no  where in trying to climb this thing, her arms just got more and more  tired the longer she sat still, and even trying to re grip made her  muscles feel like tearing out. Panic set in as sweat start to form on  her hands. "I'm going to die up here! Thats why they wanted me to go."  Alea muttered as panic ebbed away, turning into rage.

Taking a long breath,  Alea moved her right arm upwards, arms screaming in protest but she  didn't listen. Going to move her left hand next, she took it slowly  moving closer to the top cart. Sighing in relief as she pulled herself  up to the small circle where all the beams collided, she rested for a  moment before starting the climb again.

Yet only a few feet away the circle, Someone below screamed as the ride lurched into a violent shake.

"Alea! Hold on!" Pebbles  yelled as Alea tightened her grip, glancing down to see what seemed to  be a sort of animal bucking the support beams of the ride. To scared to  move, Alea hung motionless over one hundred feet in the air, and there  was nothing she could to to fix it. The two of them on the ground tried  to fight the mutt, but they never got a good enough shot to make it  stop, and each wound seemed to only make it more angry.

"You only have a few  feet left! Just move!" Someone screamed as Alea looked up, the cart was  within leaping distance, but yet she had no where to leap. Casting out  all fear and panic, Alea only focused on moving one hand then moving the  other as she slowly made her way to the cart. Finally breathing again  as her feet landed on the cart.

Tossing around the six  packs, Alea thew down both Pebbles and Phalene's back, not caring if  they broke or not. Hands shaking, Alea ripped open her pack. In the pack  was a fan. But it wasn't like her other fans, this one was wider,  sharper, and all in all better. clearly a Capitol creation just for her.  Also, a crumpled up paper that she pulled out with caution, not wanting  to rip or tear it.

"Dear me." It said at the top, causing a small grin to spread onto Alea's red face.

"Who knows if you'll  even be living to read this, but if you are I hope you are proud. Proud  that even if you killed some people to get to this point, you're still  at this point.

Just a friendly reminder  to keep sane and not to turn into some bloodthirsty monster, and if you  are now that thing, I don't know how you're going to live with  yourself.

And also, You still got allies?

Kill them. 

or leave.

get away. 

and live.

~Alea"

Alea scanned the letter multiple times, her heart racing every time she read the last four lines.

"Alea! We got the donkey  killed, well I did." Pebbles said as the cart started to move, but not  back and forth but down. But when she jumped out of the cart, she wasn't  expecting to see Phalene sprawled across the ground with a large dent  in her face and leg.

two cannons went off, one by one.

"Looks like were in the top four, together!" Pebbles squealed, but Alea's stomach only did front flips.

"Yeah."

"Together."