Chapter Fourteen
After Rue left, I tried to jump from tree to tree like her, but I was too depressed and tired and wet. I climbed down from the tree and started to walk. I needed some food, we had left the bag full of food at the tree, and by now I think someone would have taken it. So I choose a direction at random, and walked.
I walked and walked and walked, further than Rue and I had walked. I scratched at my bug bites, I rubbed my bruises, and I winced at my burns. I thought about home, about my cat and goat, I thought about Mamma, about Katniss and Papa. I thought about all of my friends at school, and I thought of Peeta and his death. How did he die? Poison? I had seen some poison berries…. Was it Cato's sword that felled him? Was it falling? Drowning? What was it?
I walked until the next morning; I didn't even hear the anthem go on last night. But I do know that nobody died… I haven't heard a cannon blast in a while. I counted the days that I've been in the arena, and I've counted roughly three weeks.
On the third day of walking, I ran into a person. It was the girl from District Five, the one who looked like a fox. I couldn't remember her name…. She froze, in the middle of stuffing some food in her mouth. She had that deer in headlights look.
"Um, hi." I said, backing away slowly. She took out a knife and started to come toward me. Oh, boy.
"So, um, what's your name?" I asked, backing away, stumbling over some roots. I didn't expect her to answer, so I was surprised when she did.
"Mary."
"Pr-pretty name." she was getting close. I looked over my shoulder, and saw a bush. She lunged. I took a stumble/step to the side, and she fell. I looked at her eyes as she stood up. They had a glint of insanity in them. She came toward me again, and I picked up a nearby stick to defend myself. This time, when she lunged, I swung the stick. I swung with my eyes closed, so my aim was off. I was aiming for her hand, I swear, but I missed. Instead if hearing a hand break, I heard her skull break. She dropped to the ground, and her cannon went off.
No. No, no, no! NO! I couldn't kill! I'm not a killer! No! I'll never see Katniss now! I looked down at Mary in horror. Her skull bone was shattered, blood gushing out. No. I ran.