Chapter 17
I sighed while mindlessly picking away at the wood on the tree, I had allowed myself a few minutes to rest, I was not great at resting. I heard a loud screech. I picked up my knife and I cautiously looked around the tree I was sitting in, expecting to be attacked by some wild animal but noting came. It took me a moment to notice that it wasn't an animal, at least not one that was a treat to me. It was the banshee a tribute had died; it has been days since that had happened. The careers weren't even out hunting.
I began to jump between the trees until I got to the careers. They were all as confused as I am. I looked out to the landscape and began to survey the area to see if a helicopter came to pick up a body. I saw one; it was all the way in the mountains. Well whoever or whatever killed them was not currently a treat to me or the careers.
I began to silently jump away from them. I wanted to try and do something productive today but I couldn't thick what. I had spent the last few hours raking my brain for any historical information I had that could help me in these games. It seemed the game makers had added mythological beasts which sadly weren't a popular topic in school as Ireland had been destroyed a thousand years ago along with most of Europe.
Its funny human where and still are the smartest beings on the planet but ultimately ended up destroying themselves. Like a virus.
When that thought hit me it is as if a switch in my brain it just clicked. Everything made sense, how had nobody in the games thought of this before. The viruses of the twenties. The black plague, the Spanish flu and covid. They were all viruses that killed a large percentage of the earth. But the Spanish flu was different. It was so dangerous because it killed the people with the strongest immune systems. It turned their immune systems against them making the most venerable of society suddenly the strongest. Currently the careers where the strongest tributes in the arena but if I could just find a way to turn their strengths against them then suddenly me and Beatrix would be the strongest in the arena.
I had to find a way to do that, it had to be possible.
