Sup! Here's another chapter. :D Not a lot of action takes place during Day/Night 8, so I'll use these two chapters to have the tributes reflect on those who have died so far. These chapters just keep getting shorter and shorter, lol. Sorry to anyone who likes long chapters.
District 4: Marine Gray, Age 16
Frankly, I'm a bit disappointed in myself.
I've only killed two tributes so far, and they were both in the bloodbath. One was the weak boy from District 6, and the other was that District 5 girl. I don't know what their names were and don't really care enough to find out. I'm pretty sure they were in an alliance, though. After I killed the 6 boy, the girl watched and started crying like a baby. Had she not frozen up and instead just ran away like a sensible person, I probably wouldn't have been able to kill her.
Oh, well. None of that matters anymore. I'm alive, and they're dead. And I intend to kill as many tributes as I possibly can while I'm in this arena. By the time these games are over, nobody will forget my name.
District 6: Livia Fleet, Age 15
Wyatt was just a kid.
He had his whole life ahead of him. He should have been allowed to grow up and live his life to the fullest, but I took that away from him. I killed him. Sure, he was crazy, but that doesn't excuse the fact that I stole the life from another human being, a boy only two years older than me.
Hold up. I keep on blaming myself for Wyatt's death, but is it really my fault? It's the Capitol that forces us to do this. The Capitol makes us kill each other for fun. Being in these games wasn't my choice. So why should I have to blame myself for a death that was, in the end, the Capitol's fault?
I wonder what the people of Panem think of Wyatt. Most people probably don't even remember him- or if they do, they think of him as a cold-blooded traitor, willing to kill Alyx without a second thought. But there was more to him than that. I remember at the District 5 Reaping, when he volunteered for the poor little kid who was chosen from the bowl. He didn't have to risk his life for the child, but he did it anyway. I think that that makes him a good person, even if he did betray our alliance in his final moments. He was willing to sacrifice himself for another human being. Not many people have the courage to do that.
I certainly don't.
District 1: Blaze Hale, Age 17
I should never have abandoned the Careers.
Maybe if I had just stayed with them a little longer, Ariana wouldn't be dead right now. But I was too stupid to see the flaws in my plan and too cowardly to run away on my own, and now my mistakes are coming back to haunt me because Ariana is gone and she's never coming back.
Win for me. That's what she shouted at me in her final moments. Well, I guess the best way for me to honor her memory is to do what she asked and win the games. I'm no longer just fighting for myself.
I'm fighting for Ariana.
District 3: Scorpius Herin, Age 16
I never really understood why Jessica liked me.
I've always been cold and aloof. In fact, I don't think I had ever spoken a word to her in my life before the games. And yet, she still liked me. She even stood up for me against a Career, which ultimately got her killed. I had caught a glimpse of Juno chasing her during the bloodbath. I'd hoped that Jessica had been able to escape with her life, but obviously she wasn't quick enough to outrun Juno.
Jessica's death is her fault, I remind myself. She was the one who was foolish enough to fall in love with me in the midst of the Hunger Games. I shake my head to get rid of my memories of her. She's dead- there's no point in crying about it. I have more important things to worry about now.
District 4: Nemo Fisher, Age 18
I barely knew Rois, the girl from District 9. She was just another tribute that was probably going to die within a week. I did know, however, that she wasn't a bad person. She didn't deserve her fate. Nobody does.
Actually, no. The Careers deserve to die like she did. I remember how Octavian kept bragging about the way he skewered her with his sword. He didn't give a crap that she was dead. In fact, he was happy about it.
I hope he dies with a sword up his chest, and I hope his killer laughs in his face as he dies. Maybe that's a despicable thing to think, but I don't care. He deserves it.
I'm hoping that Night 8 comes out very soon, maybe tomorrow…? But that's probably just wishful thinking.