I apologize for the wait on this chapter but here it it! I hope you like it! I'm hoping to have the next chapter for Far Away here in the next week or so.

There is an announcement at about noon informing us that there has been a new addition to the games that will make this even more interesting. Between Keetan and I we have no clue what this addition is, other than it is very dangerous. I'm guessing that they released some sort of mutts but he argues that they wouldn't announce that. I think that they are just trying to scare us even more, but whatever the case may be we should be scared senseless.

"What's the plan for today? Lay low, we need food, desperately." Keetan complains. "The answer to our problem is not hiding out, we need to move and soon before we run out of our supplies."

"Well, if we go out..." he rolls his eyes and lets out an impatient breath. "Fine, we can go out but let's do it and make sure that the sun won't go down while we're out." I declare. The next few minutes is filled with silence, occasionally filled by the dripping in the cave and the rustling of objects against others. When I stand up I look to see him pulling a backpack over his shoulder and staring back at me.

We set out, very cautiously looking for other tributes, and our next meal. We hear footsteps near us and quickly hide behind a conveint snow bank. For several moments we wait for the person to pass but they stop right in front of us, kick some snow that lands on our heads, then continues on. We look at eachother, puzzled then peak over the top of the small hill. We can see footsteps leading off until they stop, there's no one there though so we're confused.

I look over at him and whisper, "Where'd they go?" He motions for me to be quiet as the footsteps continue, without anyone making them. We stare at them as they continue over a small hill, 'till we can't see them anymore, then continue staring for a little bit too long.

"That must be what the new surprise is." Keetan whispers. I shake my head incredulously.

"They may have quite a bit of technology but they can't just make people invisible, can they?" I ask the fear rising in my voice as I fight to keep it at a whisper.

"I think it's not the person nessisarily, but perhaps what they're wearing..." he pauses looking at the footprints, noticing that one is deeper than the other. "This one seems to have a slight limp." He moves away from the snow bank to study the footprints closer.

"Why would they send in someone with a limp?" I ask him moving so I'm beside him. He shakes his then turns around so fast I jump.

"Sorry, let's go, we need to find some food." He says as we begin to walk back along the path we were going in the first place.

After about an hour of walking we come across a small family of some type of rabbits, quickly we kill them, set traps for more on the way back, stopping half way back in order to not draw any attention to our cave.

Once inside I start a small fire with some wood we found close to us, in order to smoke the left over rabbit, while Keetan begins to skin the animals. Once he's done with that he calls out to me.

Quickly I get up and move over to where he sits at the opening of the cave. "What is it?" I ask looking around us, searching for the danger that must be present.

"Can you do this? I can barely skin the things." He mutters, embarresed.

"You don't know how or you can't stomach it?" I ask him.

"I just don't know how."

"Good," I declare, as I procede to show how to gut these animals, thankfully my mom showed me how to when we were training.

"Do you hear that?" Keetan asks, of course I hear it, two tributes are screaming at the top of their lungs somewhere near by, or that's what it sounds like, with this bowl we're in, they could be anywhere.

For a minute I just look at him and he stares back, finally he looks away and glance at what he appears to be studying. There is a slight rumble above us and I'm not sure what's causing it. He looks back at me with a worried look upon his face.

"That doesn't sound good." He mutters looking at the ceiling of the small cave.

"What is it?" I ask as I walk back to check on the fire.

"I don't know. I'll go check it out." He declares turning, dropping half of what he's carrying, and walking out of the cave opening. The moment he's out of our shelter he turns to the right to climb up the side of the mountain, in less than a second the soft rumble that was above us has now hit it's loudest roar. Along with the noise it brings snow, snow that itself could build a mountain. I run to the opening and try to spot where Keetan went but see nothing of my district partner. Within another second the snow piles up to the point that there is no seeing over it, even if I were to climb somehow. It blocked the entrance, there's no way out. I hear a cannon sound, and then another. I'm alone and now my partner is dead. I don't really have any time to grieve this loss either, because now I have to live for him, for my parents.

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