Hunger games part 8
I woke up with a headache. I pushed myself up and looked around, crows circled the air around me and flys buzzed around me.
I coughed weakly and tried to push myself further up.
I sharp pane went through my leg, I gasped and fell on my back again.
I looked at my heel.
My makeshift bandages were soaked in blood that had dried to my leg.
I hesitantly tried to move it and gasped as pain lanced through my leg.
I later back taking deep breaths and thinking.
I looked for my bag weakly.
It was on my left.
I strained my arm in that direction, trying to reach it.
I grabbed it and pulled it back.
I took out my water and gulped it down quickly.
My headache went away a bit and I thought about what happened.
I looked around, I was in a light wood around the cornucopia.
After that run in the forest this was heaven.
I heard a rustling in the brush to my right and looked up, reaching for my knife.
"Just me" a quiet voice came from behind the bush.
I relaxed as I heard her voice and saw her step out of the bush holding a string with a dead rabbit on it.
"You were out for a bit-" she said as she knelt next to my leg "not looking the best but alive."
"How did you follow me?"
She gave a snort at that "about half the contestants could see you climbing the cliff, your lucky it was only her and me who decided to follow."
I nodded stiffly and she started to skin the rabbit.
I tried to sit up again and groaned when my ankle moved.
"You should make a splint" she said without looking up. "It'll be better than having you immobile."
I glared at her then clenched my teeth and backed myself up to a tree.
I was panting when I made it.
I decided to make a splint like she said.
I took some rope out of my bag and broke the last arrow I had in 2, getting equally long pieces.
"Why are you helping me?" I said as we worked.
"The same district, same friends even though you don't know it."
I stared at her, so that's why she had said what she did.
I went back to my splint.
"Now what."
She glanced up from her work "hide yourself and try not to get killed-" she glanced at my splint "-or shot in that case"
"Not my fault I got sh-"
"Yes it is," she had finished with the rabbit. "Try to stand up."
I glanced at her then at my work. "I don't know if its going to hold my weight..."
"Try anyway."
I sighed and tried pulling myself up with the tree. My leg hurt, but I could move it.
"Can you walk or do you need a cane old man." She said mockingly.
I glared at her and tried to walk, I could manage but it wouldn't be easy.
I gestured for her to lead the way.
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