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The gong has sounded and I have leaped off my pedestal, throwing myself into the water in the general direction of the cornucopia. I am literally soaked through in seconds as I try to plough through the water, sadly I was right about the depth, which is up to my hips and in some places even my ribs! I use my arms to wade through, pumping the forwards and back trying in a failed attempt to mimic something close to swimming. A quick scan around me while moving told me that most people were still stuck on there pedestals trying to get off, and the careerers in my pack were doing the same as me but I was quicker, reaching the ropes first I pulled myself from the water and onto the cornucopia where I lunged at the massive sword and clutched it. I knew a sword would do no good from this distance so I grabbed the throwing knives and took aim at an older looking boy who was managing better than the others, I positioned the blade in my hands and released the knife, watching it whizz through the air straight into his neck, he was dead before he hit the ground. Hope was behind me with a bow and arrow also picking off the people who were running towards us. I prepped my next knife and was about to send it spiralling at a small girl my age but something in me stopped, as I took in her helpless look as she was trying to swim away, her two ginger plaits were already wet and her face smeared with watery dirt. Instead I turned without thinking and threw at a mop of blond curls that could be seen poking out above the tall grasses, it turned a satisfying colour of crimson before completely disappearing under the water.

By now most people were out of range and only my pack were at the cornucopia, bickering over the weapons. I grabbed a special cover to put my sword in called a sash, it clipped onto my belt, I then lined my jacket with more throwing knives and then found a leather knapsack with only one strap and slung it over my arm. Into this I grabbed the best food; biscuits and crackers, dried fruit, little strips of pig meat, nuts and seeds and lastly a small loaf of bread wrapped in a plastic sheet. I found more plastic to line the bag and then I got som torches and a sleeping bag as well as two spare pairs of socks and a water bottle.

After I had all I wanted I sat down on the wooden floor which was shaking precariously, I peered around and saw that some kids were climbing a tree in the distance. It was so easy to see the people once they came above the grass level. I heard Ashen speak up," Ok, firstly well done to everyone, I counted five canons which is obviously worse than normal but it is because no on came to the cornucopia and that means they will have no food or warmth like we do. So at this great advantage we cannot afford to loose what we have so we will split onto two groups, the people who go hunting at night and the people who stay here and guard as well as preparing food and stuff but don't worry we will rotate jobs every other day. So is everyone okay with this?" Everyone murmured in agreement, I did to thinking the game-makers told him to do this, which they probably did. Machete found two canoes which got everyone excited for two reasons, none of us (except Mari and Trew from district four) had ever been in a boat before and this meant that we wouldn't be wading through water anymore. Trew started to examine it, nodding his head in approval and smoothing over the sides with his hands. I decided to copy what Hope was doing by changing

Out of her soaking trousers, jacket, shoes and socks. Once changed so we were only in running trousers and fleeces I hung up both of our clothes and put on new thick socks, I had not really ever been as dirty as I had been today so I grabbed a piece of one of the bags that had held the weapons and dipped it in the water, swashing it over my face until the mud was removed, as for my hair which had been done in a pony tail and was slightly splashed with the muddy water, I just took it down and ran my hands through it waiting for the sun to go down and the hunting to begin.

When the sun left the sky and the moon took its place, it was time to hunt, Ashen tried to make the groups even by making him in charge of his group of him, Machete and Mari. Then just to annoy me he put Trew in charge of Hope and I and as if that hadn't irritated me enough he decided we were to prepare the meal while they sailed off in the one canoe heavily armed. I watched them slip away into the night with much dismay, as I turned away Trew was poised in a cat like way wearing a shark like grin. I ignored him turning around and dangling my feet of the wooden veranda type ledge that the cornucopia was situated on. My feet were about a meter from the murky water, even though I thought against it, I couldn't help but to think the arena looked beautiful under the light of the glowing moon and the twinkling stars. This was the first natural looking scene I had ever been in, even though the game-makers had constructed it. In my district there was only a small park with short cropped grass and a few shrubs, even the small number of trees in the district were maintained to satisfaction and trimmed down to perfection. So it was nice for once in my life to look out into the uncouth, different and almost challenging surroundings. I was broken from my train of thought by a hand on my shoulder, "come, help us to prepare the food." Hope sighs next to me, I get up off the ground and stride over to where Trew has found a bag of kindling and is trying to make a fire to cook some kind of stew thing Hope has all made up in a cooking pot. I help Trew by taking two more pieces of flint and after five minutes our lamb hot pot, as Hope calls it, is simmering nicely. Trew finds a way to sit on top of the cornucopia with a torch and scan the area for tributes, while Hope and I sit side by side near the little fire. "Is it true?" She asks me, " what you said about people cheating? About the way the games are unjust? How do you know?" I nod to her questions and after a while where I carefully pick my words knowing they will be broadcasted to all of Panem. "It is true, as many feared the game-makers choose who lives and who dies." Then I lean in closer to whisper to her. "And when the time is right we will all act. But not until then." I see that she is contemplating asking me a question, in the end curiosity must get the better of her because she leans even closer and adds, "but why are you actually doing this? You have a fine life and could probably win this and go home to riches."

I smile sadly at her, she doesn't understand, I thought she would. "I do what I do because going home just isn't enough anymore! What is the point in all of this if all we are to do is abide by their unfair laws and watch as they kill everyone of us! They won't stop until there is no one left unbroken and unscarred. If you don't understand I won't speak of this to you again. But if you do I hope that you will help." she looked at me fear all over her face and quietly asked me if that meant I wouldn't be doing any killing in the games but I turned to her with a smirk and said, "we'll see."

Hope doesn't really speak to me again as she pours out the food into six bowls and Trew just sits on the floor scraping patterns into it with his knife. I am getting really bored and not paying attention to anything when the first cannon of the night is sounded making the three of us flinch, "nine dead fifteen left to go." Trew replies bluntly and all I can do is nod and plot when it is I should runaway.