Lisa and I form an alliance and stay hidden in the trees. She teaches me to climb and suggests that I teach her to fish. I don't really trust her, because she is from District 2, the most loyal to the Capitol and the most brutal. I don't teach her.
One day, while collecting water, we are discovered by a boy from District 3. He must be a scout for the Career alliance, because he shoots an arrow at my head and calls out behind him.
I dodge the arrow and start to run, grabbing my backpack and Lisa's shirt. I hear shouts in the background but I ignore them.
Lisa stops me suddenly. "I'll climb a tree. You run. I'll never keep up with you." I nod and start to run again, so quickly that I am in a trance and I don't notice myself dodging obstacles like fallen tree branches and bushes.
I stop when I don't hear anything. No one is behind me, no one is catching up to me. No one is watching me. I am alone.
I begin to walk back. The Careers should be gone by now. I don't hear anything, save for the crunching of nature under my feet.
Halfway back, I find it.
It is the Career scout, his bow and arrows thrown to the side. They lie next to a tree several meters away.
The scout has his throat slit and a sword impaled in his stomach. His bleeding is profuse; he is lying in a puddle of the sticky liquid and it is bubbling up from his mouth. He is still alive.
His eyes wander to me, and he flexes his weak fingers. His eyes beg for me to end his life and put him out of his misery.
He dies of blood loss before I can oblige.
A/N: Sorry this chapter was so short, but there really nothing else to be said. So House has a stalker! Who is it? Maybe you'll find out sooner than you think...or it will take several chapters so I can keep this weak plot going! For those of you who don't know, exsanguination (the title of the chapter) means the extreme loss of blood, usually resulting in death. So it's death by blood loss.
