Clue 2: To stay in the game and stay ahead, peel your eyes for something red.

Edit: I did some cleanups to catch some goofs

Angora Chenille, D8

Lancia shrieked as Jackie exploded all over her. Blood painted her all down her front and chunks of flesh and gristle dangled from her hair. As her mouth opened, I saw something red fly in and I retched. Camellia toppled backwards off her seat and heaved herself back over the bench to be farther away from the scene. Only Ruby and Charming were stoic.

"The tribe has-" Titian tried to say, but we couldn't hear him over Lancia. "The tribe has spoken!" he yelled, and said some other garbage about seeing us later and all that. Most of us fled down the path to our camp, with Charming and Ruby taking up the rear. Sammie and Camellia ran to Lancia's side and each took one her hands, sandwiching her between them protectively as they helped her back to camp. I would have helped them, but I didn't want to get in the way.

"What was that?" I heard Reefe shouting as I got back to camp, hovering beside Lancia, Camellia and Sammie. "How are we gonna eat now?"

"You can fish, right?" Ruby said.

"Not as much as two of us! And maybe now I don't want to after I saw what happens to providers," Reefe said.

"I trust you still want to protect yourself," Charming said meaningfully.

"If you let me live, maybe I'll fish and maybe I won't. If you kill me, there goes your last chance. Looks like we have a standoff," Reefe said. The rest of us stayed out of the charged staredown.

"Let's just never lose again, okay? Can we do that?" Camellia asked. One of the worst things of the night was seeing Camellia cry. Stuff was going down if Camellia was in despair.

"We're not going to lose again," Charming said. "Losing Jackie was unfortunate, but we're still the stronger tribe. Let's all try to get some rest and forget about this."

"I'm not going to forget about this," Lancia said, staring at nothing with wide, white eyes as Sammie dabbed at the blood on her face with a wet leaf. No one but Charming or Ruby had any chance of forgetting this.

Bailey Arroyo, D10

"So, you ever fished before?" I asked Hannah.

"There's no lakes in Nine," she said. "How about you?"

"I don't think I've ever even eaten a fish," I said.

"Oh, how hard could it be?" Hannah asked. We looked over the tools and doohickeys in our basket. I hadn't seen any fish up close since we got to the island, so the short-handled net didn't seem like a good idea. Neither of us felt coordinated enough to use the spear, so that left the poles. I picked one up.

"All right, looks like we just push the button, throw the hook into the water, wait for the fish to pull, pull the fish in, and eat it," I said. I tried to toss the hook out into the surf and succeeded in getting it maybe fifteen feet out.

"I think we have to put bait on," Hannah said.

"Oh, right," I said, sheepishly reeling the line in. I put on a worm from the bait box and threw mine out as Hannah worked on hers. Once they were in the water, the two bobbers drifted out into the waves, and we started a conversation as we waited.

"We eat a lot of oatmeal," Hannah said, after I explained that we usually ate the eggs that weren't fresh enough to ship out. I was about to answer when my line went taut and pulled so hard I had to take a step forward.

"You got something?" Hannah asked.

"Sure feels like it," I said. The fish yanked me and I took another step. Hannah reeled in her line and came to help me as I pulled back on the fish. I was glad the line was thick, because whatever I had, it was heavy.

"That must be one big fish," Hannah said as she held the middle of the pole.

"We'll eat like kings!" I said. I thought the pole might break, but it held steady as I reeled in the line. The water started to roil as the fish reached shallower water, and then fins started to flop around on the surface.

"Almost there!" I said. The fish was barely seven feet out into the water. It was about two feet long, and I almost dropped the pole when I saw the fin pointing straight up. Hannah yanked again and the fish flopped around on the sand. We both jumped away from it in alarm.

"That's a shark!" I said. The vertical fin and gnashing teeth gave it away.

"It's just a little one," Hannah said. She looked closer. "Think we can eat it?"

Ruby Lalonde, D1

Apparently it was my turn for "confession cam". The camera crews kept staring at us as we were trying to mind our own business. I tried flipping one off so he couldn't film me, but it seemed a show about killing kids didn't care about profanity. I gave up and threw them a bone.

"All right, what do you wanna talk about?" I asked.

"Uh, I'm just supposed to film," the camera guy said.

"Okay, how about an inside look at camp life? You can all see it already since there's cameras and all, but how about some real dirt?" I said. I didn't plan to talk about anything important, but if they wanted some stupid gossip and it would get them off my back, I could bear it.

"Usually I don't talk much in camp. I don't think I'm better than everyone else or anything, I just don't have much to say. Charming talks enough for both of us. Speaking of Charming making noise, I got something for you out there: he snores. Not like a sawmill or anything, but it's definitely there. He talks all tough, but he snores like a little kid."

"Sammie and Camellia are trying to teach Potato to write. It's worked out a little as you can see, since he can write an L. Obviously they're doing it to buy his vote, but at least they're not mean to the little tuber. I've never voted for him yet. I'm no angel and I'm not going to risk my life for a dumb kid, but that won't be a proud vote for me."

I paused to think of anything the people might find interesting. I didn't pay much attention to gossip or embarrassing stories. I wanted to live, not socialize. Inspiration came when I thought of the one thing they wanted to hear about more than anything else: violence.

"Want to know why we voted for Jackie? Not saying I did or didn't, mind you. Those of us who did, did it because we thought she'd win. She was capable enough to get us food, good at most challenges, and way nicer than me or Charming. They didn't vote for me or him because they knew we'd always be unpopular and they could do it whenever they wanted. Jackie was the one they were afraid of. And now we'll go hungry, so that's lovely," I said. "Happy now? Will you leave us alone a while?" The camera guy left me in peace, allowing me to lapse back into my preferred silence. You didn't win the Games by talking. A Career won by listening.

More cleanups: The tribes are allowed to watch the sudden death challenges. It was a goof when I showed them not watching. I meant for them to be watching from a distance. Ruby and Charming DO know how to fish, they're just not as good. And luckily, this was one of them edible sharks. Maybe a fruit snack shark or something?