***Hi, annairb7 here! Sorry for this chapter taking a while to write, school's been busy. Anyway, here is Chapter 10! Please follow, or review, or whatever. Does anyone love me? :(
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I look at Jonathan in fear. Who has died now? Did they die due to natural causes, or because another tribute killed them? Or maybe the now-dead tributes walked into their own 'district'?
'Climb the trees' Jonathan says. 'We can see whether anything happened, like whether thy walked into their own district section.
We both quickly scale the trees near us, and soon we are above all the leaves, and now we can see the arena. Nothing has really changed. The sunset illuminates the golden Cornucopia nicely, the 13 sections around the Cornucopia. The District 2 factory was completely wrecked, all of it on the ground in ruins. Half the trees surrounding us have fallen down. Everything else seemed to be fine.
I look at Jonathan. 'Nothing's happened' I say. But Jonathan isn't looking at the arena. 'There!' he yells, pointing somewhere in the District 7 section. Jonathan is pointing quite far away. I look, and I see it. A river.
'We have to get there now' Jonathan says. 'No' I protest. 'The sun is setting. It's not all that smart to wander around in a forest at night. There might be wolves, or bears, or something.'
Jonathan shakes his head. 'We've run out of water, we need to get there as soon as possible. Anyway, the risk's gone. Neither of us are from District 7. We're safe.' 'You can't be sure.' 'What, you'd rather die of thirst?'
Finally I give in. 'Fine' I grumble, and we climb back down to the ground. We head in the direction of where Jonathan saw the river, but it's dark now. I'm frequently stumbling on fallen trees and random branches. Jonathan is as well, and I think he's regretting his choice of hiking through the forest at night.
My mouth is dry, and I feel really light-headed. I feel dizzy and sick. I can't use the berries to sustain me, we ran out of berries not that long ago and I don't want to pick berries in the night, I won't be able to see what type of berries they are. I might accidently pick a berry that will kill me, or something.
I'm panting quite soon; Jonathan and I are practically stumbling around blind, now. It's pitch-black; clouds are covering up the moon. I hate not being able to see - sight is the sense I rely on the most.
I seriously need to stop now. We can't see, I don't think we're even getting closer to the river. I'm dizzy beyond description; I feel like fainting. Actually, dying. It's terrible, nearly painful, the lack of water.
'Stop' I croak out to Jonathan. We sit down on a log together. 'Who.. takes... first watch?' Jonathan rasps to me. I can't reply, it's so bad. I need water now. I'm going to die.
Something silver glows. It's moonlight, the moon having come out from behind the clouds. Wait, no. The silver thing is floating towards us. Moonlight doesn't float.
I reach out and grab it with my hand. A gift from Kendall, our mentor.
I take off the faintly-shining silver parachute. It's tiny, about the size of my finger. But it's enough. I'm not going to die.
I take the cap off the miniture water bottle, and take a sip of water.
It's so fresh, and cool, and nice. I take another sip of bliss. Half of the water's gone, but that's alright. Tomorrow will hopefully be cloudy, which means we won't get really hot in the sun.
I pass the water bottle to Jonathan, who has his eyes closed. He hasn't noticed that we have a gift.
'Jonathan' I whisper. His eyes open slowly. 'Water' I say.
Jonathan's eyes widen, and he takes a sip. 'I'll take first watch' I say.
Jonathan drains the bottle, then closes his eyes and lies down in the log.
'Thank you Kendall' I say to the night.
We won't die. We'll find the river tomorrow.
We'll survive.
For now.
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