The 71st Hunger Games
Chapter 22:
I wake up, gasping for air. My forehead sweats as I try to avoid thinking about my nightmares. I reach into my pack but remember I don't have any water. I probably need to eat something to keep my strength up but it will only make my thirst stronger. I pack up and head out I find water, my mother once told me that water comes from high ground so I decide looking for a hill or something but I can't find one.
I trip over a tree root and fall face first onto a sharp shrub then I think. Why is there so much greenery round here? There must be water near by. I get up and look around but I can't see anything. Something clicks inside me and I find myself digging a hole in the ground with my bare hands soon I hit a stone suffice. Darn it. I swing my axe into the hole and it breaks the thin surface of stone. A spring of water emerges from the ground. Fresh water. Finally! I smile wider and wider until it turns into a laugh and scoop up the fresh water in my hands and drink the cool liquid. I fill up my canteen and put a drop of iodine into it.
When I finally get up its almost noon so I divide to look for something to eat and soon enough a bird flys out from behind a tree. I follow it silently through the jungle until it lands and with one blow I bring down my axe and chop it in half. I start a small fire and cook it saving half for later when it's to risky to build a fire in fear of other tributes showing up.
I climb up a tree and try to settle myself in for a nights sleep but I see another bird. I think foolishly that if I kill this one I will have more food so I bring my axe down. The bird falls to the ground and someone runs out if the jungle to see what it is. I can see the persons silhouette but no person. Then I realise, its Lazail!
Before I can call out to him a knife gets lodged in his back and a cannon goes off. I jump down from the tree. If I cry it will show off how weak I am so I let my tears fall. I have to move on so I collect my items. I can't help but stay with Lazail a little bit longer so I sit back next to him and let my tears fall again.
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Hi!
I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
Sorry I haven't updated this for a long time. I've had loads of homework and I dislocated my knee in January so I didn't have any spare time to update it.
Thanks @txshax for helping with this chapter!! She'll be making some awesome stories soon so you should go follow her!
Thanks for reading!
Aurora xxx
