Chapter 6
Walking up further and further the mountain path we all seemed to be calm and feel safe. I, as earlier, followed slightly behind. I knew this would soon become dangerous as the path steepened, it would be icy. We hadn't stopped to rest since the cornucopia, but that hadn't stopped us. None of us felt weary or hungry. As we reached further up the mountain the views became better, forests of pine, other mountain peaks and ridges. We could see nobody though, which gave us hope that nobody would be up here. My mind snapped back to the paper again, let's read it I thought. Maybe there's nothing on there. Pulling my backpack around, I pulled it open and shoved my hand in moving stuff until I felt it. I lifted it carefully so not to rip the paper and the note that could be on it. I zipped my backpack up and hoisted it back around my shoulders, this was it. Turning the paper I saw a little message imprinted on it. It read as:
To the lucky reader,
here are some clues,
the 150th hunger games is new,
As four islands split,
And many more people die,
a small team of you,
pass over the bridges,
and that I leave you,
you'll probably die.
"Hey hey guys, wait up." I call while running up the icy path towards them. Turning back they walk down slightly until they notice the message. I wait until they have read it and ask: "what do you think it means?" Mercy looked at me.
"Well it's defiantly a note about the 150th hunger games."
"No shit" Darilus laughs.
"I'm just trying to help" she noted seeming quite agitated.
"Well anyway, 'a small team of you' it says. That's defiantly new to the games." I added quickly to get off the subject.
"True true, 'and many more people die' doesn't seemed great either. It reminds me of the 50th hunger games; I watched it before I came in here."
"That's more like it Mercy." He nudges her and winks like an older brother would.
"Anyway, let's keep moving; we'll figure it out later." I said while promptly walking on. I didn't know if I liked Mercy, I guess not, she is two years younger than me and feels more like a sister now. Mercy and Darilus caught up with me and we continued on to the peak. I didn't know what we'd find, I just hoped it would be nothing bad. I'd seen enough bad things for one day.
