And then…..
Vera ran, fast, but not far, just to the edge of the forest, better to see what everyone can do, and then when the careers go 'hunting', I can steal some food.
The first one dead was the boy from 9, he had a knife thrown in his back by Clove, who immediately threw a knife at Katniss of 12, but she caught it on her backpack, I knew he would die and that 12 would do better than they usually do. After that the blood flowed like a river that was escaped by few, both from 1, both from 2, the boy of 3, the girls of 6 and 8 the girl of 10 the both of 11 and the both of 12, almost exactly as Vera had predicted.
Vera watched as the careers and the boys of 3 and 12 cut and sliced their way to the cornucopia and killed everyone who got in their way, setting up camp there whilst the boy of 3, Tom she thought his name was, dug up all the bombs before fiddling with them and resetting them around their supplies, and drawing a cross on where to step for the others so that they wouldn't be blown sky high.
Idiot, you just showed me how to get your supplies. Vera immediately ran towards their stack to get a small amount, enough to survive but not enough to be noticed, of food from their pile when they went 'hunting', just leaving the district 3 boy to guard the food, a few apples, some dried meat and 3 liters of water, just enough.
She returned to her watch point, a clump of bushes opposite the careers camp to the lake, and watched, observing everything, the way Tom sat and brushed his fringe back from his eyes before sitting in the entrance of his tent and falling asleep, Idiot, do you want to be killed?
Vera decided to go looking for other competitors, to find out what they knew, and to learn from them. She walked until just after the sun went down and continued to walk, until she saw smoke and light from a fire about 200 meters in front of her, That will be the girl from 10, idiot, you'll get yourself killed within the hour, and me, I'd better go, NOW! Vera ran as she heard the self-confident, almost maniacal laughs of the Careers, the 10 girl wasn't as smart, she stood up and grabbed a small knife, as though to fight them, or to get them to let her in their pack for her idiotic bravery, you're dead, idiot.
She ran away for about 200 meters, before she heard something, a sort of rustling in a willow tree to her left, she looked up, in a fork around half way up she saw an outline of a female figure in a sleeping bag, creeping along to a near-by bush, she hid to watch the girl and what happened when the careers arrived.
When the careers appeared bellow her, they both received a shock to see who else was with them, the boy from 12, Vera had to stop herself from crying out, and the girl, Katniss of 12 as I could now see, almost rolled out of her sleeping bag, and was suspended upside down from the tree held in by only a belt.
The careers appeared to have an argument before Peeta of 12 walked off. A cannon went off about 3 seconds after he returned. The careers ran off, and a few minutes later, so did I, close enough to be able to track them, but far enough away so that I could not be heard under any circumstances.