SYOT Open: The 25th Games

by StarDxst

[T for Violence] Tensions are rising in the first Quarter Quell. With a new head Gamemaker and trouble around every corner, how will this year's tributes fare? SYOT closing soon!

37. Emerald again

Here you go 2/5 or 1/5 depending on whether I have a co writer help (she's got this, hopefully). Go favourite InsertUsernameHereThanks, she's helping me out to tackle this insanity.

Emerald's POV)

I grasp Caleb's hand, shocked that he's still alive. He was so, so close to death, but he's still here. That's what matters. I think that this is hard for everyone here, but I try not to show it.

I hear someone counting in the difference. I don't know who it is, but I bet it's someone that Shark threatened. He's like that.

Or at least, he was. Now he's nothing. Dead, ashes. He's passed through Hell's gates. Off to somewhere that I hope is better. I hated him, but not to the extent that I wanted him to die. I don't want anyone to die, really. It's so cruel, so tragic, that we're still here while they are not.

And Caleb was almost there. Oh god, Caleb. I don't know what I'd do without him. He's like another Sapphire, quiet, smart, friendly.

Naïve. I couldn't let him die here. I would before him, and I know it.

A sickening squelch of a knife hitting someone's body alarms me. Who is it, or what? I don't know, but I'm scared for my life.

But mostly Caleb's.