As I yell wake everyone up Shontelle soon sees the mark and then everyone soon understands what happening we wait under a bit of shelter my hand still burning. "The burning will soon penetrate your bone, my grandmother used to come to district 12 and teach me about all these acids and things" Katnip said in a worried tone. Soon she shot across the covered ditch, there wasn't much room in the ditch even including all the acid spots. She makes a bucket out of all the leaves that fell, she then puts it in a spot where the acid rain can drop into it. She then tells us to just wait. After a while ,my hand is burning feeling almost beyond repair. Soon she says "The acid has now been out of the reach from other acids for 5 minutes, which means it can now heals acid burns" She then puts it onto my burn, I feel some sort of healing sensation and then thank her. Snow's attempt to kill me had failed yet again. The cornucopia blowing up and now the acid rain I wonder what else is next.
Later as the hours go by Chile and Shontelle go out to find food. Katnip then stays to look after me while I'm healing. "Thank you so much" I say knowing it's not enough. "it's fine, hey look I know you probably wouldn't know but do you know a girl called PrimRose?" I would've been easier to say no because the story is too hard. I stutter and say "sort of" "did she die to save capitol children" Snow is probably right now cutting this out why would Snow let Panem see it to be his fault letting a 12 year old die. "yes saving people, she was an amazing medic just like you". The upsetting factor is that I didn't even know Prim but I heard great stories about her. Before anyone sees it she blushes and smiles. "She's my auntie" I don't even know the pain of having your auntie dead before you were even alive. It makes me struggle she begins to tell me stories of her like the one about the goat and though Katnip herself aren't included in many of these it makes her happy. After a while my hand still feels like I've just been burnt by the sun only the pain is maximized. Katnip tells me that this way the acid won't reach my bone which is good. She told me if the acid reached my bone that it would make my hands fall of which wouldn't have been good.
In many ways I'm quite lucky to have such an intelligent group, I mean Chile grew up with electronics and he was top of the class, Shontelle always knowing how to find fish and then cook it, Then of course there's Katnip an excellent medic, taught by her grandmother who to heal the most severe cases. Me I have no outstanding talents I'm okay with an axe but that's it. After a couple of hours and my hand gradually getting better. Everyone eventually comes back and after a while two tributes make their way towards us. I soon get a clear image they aren't a threat the 12 year old boy and girl of the same age they are both followed by a seventeen year old. I manage to identify them. The girl is from 11 and is named Madina; the boy is from 7 and is named Realm. The seventeen year old girl is named Cheryl and has obviously guarded these two tributes. "Umm excuse me, well there's no easy way to say this may we form an alliance?" I've heard this question too many times, the answer should be yes but it would be better if we were selfish. It was okay forming a big alliance last year. There were so many careers then. We only have four careers to defeat this time.
As they soon settle in we have dinner I see Cheryl sneak some more meat for both Realm and Madina. She seemed to really love them like family. It warms my heart that perhaps the girl that could win the games on her own wanted to help the people whose odd clearly weren't in favour of. Another day approaches and I was right about Cheryl in both ways, she cares for them and she's skilful. She managed to find a chicken and cooked it well. I see the fog that looks surprisingly familiar. Cheryl soon take notice like something bad was going to happen. It took a couple of minutes for both Shontelle and Chile to wake up, but once they do they notice the fog as well. Before any of us say anything we hear a canon. BOOM! Cheryl immediately stands up and hurry along everyone but makes sure that both Realm and Madina are in front. "What are you doing so what someone died?" asks Shontelle "It's the fog, just like in the 75th games". I think we'd all hate to admit the two things that had just happened. The first thing without Cheryl we would be dead, the second thing we had just felt what it felt like for Katniss and Peeta. We all run. If we're lucky this was just an attempt to get us to move and not to fall into the Careers trap. Unfortunately my original thought was wrong it wasn't to get us to move or to fall into a Careers trap instead it was to kill us make us fall off a cliff. The sad thing is they succeded at least at killing one of us. It was Madina