A Lone Fox
Veata (foxfaces) story
All the other tributes are all so stupid especially those careers I'd stolen food or water or anything I needed from almost all of the other tributes in here with me. I was to cleaver for them to know I never took to much of one thing just enough to keep me alive but not enough to be seen.
I'd managed to work out the patten though the mines that the careers had set up to keep greedy hands off. It hadn't worked against me. From the careers I'd taken not only food but a sleeping bag, a knife, some highly prized night vision goggles, some iodine so my water would always have a way to clean my water and other useful items that meat brains like them wouldn't miss if I had them.
I laugh silently to myself as I nibble on the tiny piece of lush goats cheese I 'acquired' from the 12's who had finally formed an alliance because they were 'in love'. As if the Bread boy did truly love the girl but she thought it was just for the game. Ha. No one is that good at acting especially not a low life baker from 12. Surprisingly they didn't have that much food only some cheese and loads of berries that Bread was collecting when that Cat girl was hunting. Ha. They wouldn't miss them they had loads so they wouldn't miss it. I thought I'd eat the cheese first because you never get food this good in the games.
I'd always done OK in life in a triad punishable by death. But I was well payed I mean everyone every once in a wile needs to 'borrow' something for somewhere or a stall or the scram (our black market) and who better than a quiet innocent child like me?
In the distance I hear her saying something angrily to bread, so I just move closer to the tree I'm hiding behind so if they came this way and I didn't hear them (fat chance with the amount of noise bread makes) or that Cato (the district 2 numpty) wouldn't see me if he stormed past.
I laugh again. They were all so stupid. I was the one to kill. I had out witted all the traps the GM's had made for me. Had the other kids not seen that I was the one they'd need to kill to get back to their good law abiding family's. Ha. They were all so stupid. I'd know if they were setting a trap for me. I'd just use it agents them. I pop the first berry into my my mouth and chew the sweet thing. then swallow. The pain is so sudden so unexplained that it can't be real. The feeling of fire that burns me up from the inside. Burning. BURNING. Burning away my life. That berry. They must not have known or I would. They must be in as mush pain as me. As a fall to the ground and everything goes dark and I'm suddenly painless. I hear a canon fire it must be mine. So this is what death is you can't see or move or respond only feel, hear and smell. I feel the claws of the hovercraft close around me. I'm going home I think. Finally I'm going home.