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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