We found Katshit the next day. Cowering in a treee. A severe burn on her calf.
"Come down, Katshit. Don't you wanna see your Loverboy?" I cry teasingly.
She straightens and calls down, "How's it going down there?" The bitch makes my blood boil. But not worse than Glimmer. No one takes the whore's place. Cato smiles warmly, sword in hand.
"Not bad. Yourself?" Cato asks in the same cheery voice as if they'd been friends for a lifetime and it was casual to talk about the weather in the middle of an arena full of other children who are trying to kill you.
"A bit warm for my taste." She taunts back. I roll my eyes having enough of this show. Apparently Glimmer's frustrated too. She takes out her bow and aims. The arrow lands with a resounding thud in the next tree.
"Dammit Sparkles! Can you do anything right?" I screech at her. Katshit picks up the arrow and waves it teasingly over our heads.
"Missing something?" She calls out, waving the acursed arrow. Cato gets pissed and begins to climb. Up and up he travels, touching the limb where FireGirl is perched.
"Kill her, Cato! Just kill her, Cato!" I scream out after him. The look is demanding and dark and scary. Cato reaches her branch and is so close, I can see the sadistic glow in his eye he always gets before a kill. But not close enough, the branch snaps, taking Cato with it. He lands with a thud.
It's darkening. "Just leave her! She can't stay up there forever, can't she? She has to come down for food and water. And we she does we can kill her. Okay?"
I see my fellow Careers agreeing and not agreeing. But overall we all agree and decide to make camp.
