Amber sits in front of the TV, not having moved since the bloodbath started. She's literally been sitting in that chair since 5 am.
She was tossing and turning all night. She couldn't have slept for more than a few hours.
The screen is focused on the careers. Among them are both tributes from 1, the girl from 2, the girl from 3, both tributes from 4, and the two strong fourteen-year-old girls from 8 and 10.
"Did you hear, Kembrith?" Amber asks. "Only two deaths. Not good for Kailey."
The careers are trying to climb the cliff.
"Why did they have to design the arena so that we couldn't climb this?" Agnes, the girl from 4, huffs.
"You're not the one who's injured!" Pete snaps. He has a gash in his knee from Tyler's knife.
"Relax, you two," Kitty sighs, cutting away at the branches of a tree with her knife. "There, I've cleared a path. Come on."
The careers begin to follow her up.
"Amber, you look so tired. Why don't you take a nap?" I suggest.
"But I have to make sure Kailey's okay!" Amber protests.
"The cameras aren't even on her." I groan, slightly embarrassed that I'm telling someone who's two years older than me to sleep. "I'll watch. You go sleep and I'll wake you up if I see Kailey."
"Fine." Amber gets up. I sit down and continue to watch the careers.
Kitty struggles after two minutes and finally uses her knife to get up. The others use their weapons to climb up after her.
"Come on, I see the way up!" Kitty calls to the others excitedly.
"It better be." Roes from District 2 calls up. "I don't want to plummet to my death."
Callie and Brooke, the fourteen-year-olds, glance at each other.
Kitty leads everyone to the top of the cliff.
"We have a perfect view of the Cornucopia!" Jesse cheers.
Everyone lines up near the edge to see.
"I see some tributes that way." Kelsey points a spear toward the island that Kailey and her allies are on.
That's not good.
Callie and Brooke stay behind everyone. Glancing at Callie, Brooke takes out a knife. Callie takes out a sword and they slowly move forward.
Callie knocks Jesse off the cliff.
BOOM!
I jump at the cannon.
Kitty turns away from the edge and jumps on Callie, her knife raised.
Brooke pushes Pete forward and he falls fifty feet to his death.
BOOM!
Callie tries to hold Kitty off but can't.
Kelsey tries to run but Brooke stabs her in the back. She drops to the ground and another cannon fires.
Agnes and Roes start to climb down. Brooke follows them and knocks Agnes off the cliff and stabs Roes. They both fall and two more cannons fire.
This is a much better bloodbath than the one at the cornucopia.
Brooke runs to the other side of the cliff and into the desert.
Kitty pins Callie. "That was your plan all along, wasn't it?" She yells.
Callie tries to struggle away.
"We should never have trusted you!"
Kitty sends the knife into Callie's heart and runs.
That was a very confusing scene. I lost track of who died. I look at the column on the right side of the screen and work my way down.
Jesse Horace from District 1.
Roes Shimmerg from District 2.
Kelsey London from District 3.
Agnes Mulligan from District 4.
Pete Morgan from District 4.
Teal Drake from District 9.
Callie Anders from District 10.
Levi Lewis from District 11.
I run into the kitchen.
"Mom! Dad! You missed it! Two fourteen-year-olds took on the careers!"
"What happened?" Dad asks.
"All the careers are dead except one. They pushed them off the cliff. The surviving career killed one of the fourteen-year-olds. The other ran. Now instead of two deaths on the first day there's eight."
"The careers died the first day?" Mom asks. "That has never happened before."
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The careers are dead!
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