Chapter One

District Two

"Attention!" Officer Lefig yelled, as he was marching toward the hillside.

I walked out of line to notice dark clouds of smoke rising on the other side of the mountain.

"Sir," I stumbled, "clouds of smoke are rising, sir!"

"Yes Gale there is, now shut up!" Officer Lefig looked disappointed in me, but tried to show no sign of it. He turned back to the hillside and moved onward.

I soon heard screaming and could no longer stand and wait. I ran quickly to the hill to find myself shocked by a force field. For a moment I stood there confused, but I quickly caught up with the day. I took a glance at the force field; there was no weak spot in sight.

"Sir, the force field is activated!"

"Son, honestly, how do you expect this to be, without it people could escape. Not good boy, not good." Lefig replied in that sort of matter facty way that most people hate.

I started trying to catch on clearly to what he said. He meant that they didn't want people to escape. He didn't want us to escape? What does he mean by he doesn't want us to escape? Do we have a poor military or something? Then it hit me. They want control. I began to push through rows and rows of endless soldiers; following the wall of the force field, trying to find the weak spot. Soon I came upon the spot, it was wavy, just as before. I loaded my bow and pulled back the string quickly. I corrected my aim and released, moments later I was blown back by the impact of the dying force field.

I crawled toward my bow and slapped it over my shoulder making sure to collect any stray arrows