The Quarter Quell

More Deaths

Posy's POV: (morning)

I wake up and my vision is blurry and my head spins. When everything comes to place I try to get up slowly. My head hurts so much. I clutch my wound and I feel moss attached to it. I take it off and dry blood is revealed. I walk around looking for Katniss, but I don't remember the way. I must've hit my head so hard that I had a memory loss and that frightens me. My stomach growls for food. When I walk further, I find bushes with all sorts of fruits. I walk to a bush with berries and see the blood red berry juice inside. I throw it away remembering that sort of berry is nightlock. I pick out an apple; as I'm about to bite it, a knife comes shooting and lands in a tree's trunk with the apple in the middle. I stare at it in awed.

"Who's there?" I ask loudly. A thin girl with chicken legs, three feet long dark red hair, paled faced and big beautiful dark brown eyes comes out. I know her as the District 5 Target, fourteen year old, Philomena.

"That apple is poisonous." Says Philomena.

"What?" I ask.

"Unless you eat the seeds." Continues Philomena. "Like cherries and other fruits, they contain cyanogenic glycosides causing cyanide. Seeds from one apple will not likely cause an effect but people have eaten enough to die from it."

"Why didn't you just let me die?" I ask.

"Because I want you as ally." Says Philomena. I'm surprised.

"You do?" I ask. "What happened to the allies you had?"

"You mean Daisha and River? They died saving me after we were attacked by the Carrers when they killed off Aaron." Philomena answers. "And you need help."

"I'm fine." I answer.

"Just come with me. I can help you." Says Philomena and grabs my hand. We walk miles in silence. I wonder how she made it all the way to where I was.

"You walked this long?" I ask Philomena.

"I was already around this area searching for food. I heard your screams last night but I was too late. I went down to check on you when the doctors left." Philomena says. "I was surprised when I heard them say you were alive, so I waited for you to wake up."

"Why did you wait?" I ask her.

"Because I wanted you as ally since the beginning. I've been alone since they killed Daisha and River. The Carrers are after me ever since they gave themselves up to save me."

"Are they after me?" I ask worried.

"Not at this point. As soon as they find out you are alive they'll be after you." Philomena answers.

"But didn't the Gamemakers announce that I was alive?"

"No. I heard Plutarch say to the doctors to just leave you there." Philomena says.

"Will they kill my family as punishment?" I ask even more worried.

"I don't know." Philomena says. I really hope not. How can I live? We arrive to her little camp that's located at a large field and there's a big rock. I see all the food she has.

"Where did you get all the food?" I ask amazed.

"I stole them." Philomena answers, preparing some food for me.

"Stole them from what?" I ask.

"Is actually a who. I stole from the Carrers." Philomena says. I'm stunned.

"You stole from the Carrers?" I ask in almost a hushed voice.

"Yeah. Why?" Philomena says.

"They could've killed you." I say.