I am frozen on the top of a mountain, paralyzed with fear. District 1 is circling me like a hungry shark. The girl is behind me and the boy in front so I can't keep my eyes on both of them and the scariest thing is I can't read their minds. I open my mind and reach out but I can't hear a thing. I can see it in their eyes though, they're dangerous, they will kill me. The girl lunges forward with a knife and I scream in terror as she carves designs on my face.

I wake up in a cold sweat, an unuttered shriek lodged in my throat. Jared appears at my side, looking at me in concern.

"What's wrong?" he whispers.

"It's nothing. Just a nightmare." I tell him. He looks really tired.

"Do you want me to take watch?" I offer.

"Sure." He nods. I listen to his mind and I'm relieved that I can hear him. He's worrying about me. I slip out of the sleeping bag and kiss his cheek before grabbing my trident and slinking toward the mouth of the cave. I block out Jared's thoughts and open my mind to other tributes that might be hunting.

Jared starts to wake up as the sun peeks over the edge of a mountain in the distance. The light is the gray misty light of morning and he looks around groggily rubbing his eyes. We eat breakfast without talking.

"I think we need to get rid of District 1 and 2. They're the most dangerous." I say breaking the silence.

"I agree. I think we should spy on them." He says.

"Good idea. Do you want to leave our stuff here and both go or do it in shifts?" I ask him but I know the answer. He's more worried about me than the supplies. He doesn't want to separate for anything.

"Let's both go." He says. We travel light, only taking two knives each. We plan on coming back and we aren't going to fight, just scope out the area. After we hide our supplies deep in the cave we head out, climbing back up the mountain as quietly as possible.

As much as I love Jared and as much as I feel bad for saying this, I think this spy mission would be much easier by myself. Jared hikes a lot louder than I do. What's funny is that he keeps thinking, Stealth, Jared, be stealth to himself and it's not helping in the slightest.

We reach the top of the mountain and decide through my telepathy, hand signals and whispers that we should split up and search the area then meet back at our cave at nightfall. I stand on my tip toes and kiss him. Hard. Trying to put as much of what I feel into the kiss as possible.

"Don't get caught." I hiss.

"You neither." He whispers back and with that we both turn and sneak off in the opposite direction. No one is at the Cornucopia which is weird. I guess they were too scared to stay. I wonder where they hauled all that stuff. I skirt around the edge of the clearing. There's sparse pine forest on this edge of the plateau dropping off the edge in a cliff even steeper than our side of the mountain. Now that it's quiet and I'm not panicked I can hear the crash of waves. I keep my mind listening closely for thoughts and creep to the other side. I look over the edge and sure enough there's gray-blue waves crashing against the side of the mountain. I can't suppress the happiness I feel at seeing the ocean. I slip back into the cover of the pines. Soon I find foot prints; I'm not following them long before I can hear thoughts. It's them. District 1 and 2. Well, now I know their names. The District 1 boy, Anthony, has a crush on the District 2 girl Cleo and the District 2 boy, Jordan, thinks the District 1 girl, Adeline who is Anthony's sister is really annoying. Something's gonna have to give there. She hates his guts too so maybe I'll get lucky and they'll simultaneously off each other.

I guess they stashed their Cornucopia supplies in a cave somewhere because they're each only carrying a back pack, and weapons, of course. Anthony is the leader and he's apparently leading them on a tribute hunt. You'd think that since this is the first games that we would be more hesitant to kill. I'm surprised out how quickly these kids, me included, deteriorated into ruthless killers. I've already killed four people. I use the word kill because I'm not comfortable with thinking of myself as a murderer. I wonder what my family and friends back home think of me now. I don't have much time to wonder though because my target is moving away from me. I stalk them silently as a cat and I'm surprised at how quiet I can actually be. None of them have noticed me.

But they have noticed someone else, District 8, her name is Bella. She was hiding in the branches of a tree that she's apparently allergic to, according to her thoughts. Her sneeze was what alerted the others of her presence. She had been looking for food when she heard them coming and had to scurry up a tree. The wrong tree, I guess.

The two districts surround her tree. Cleo is roughly the same size as Bella and is the first to climb up after her. Bella climbs even higher, chucking pine cones at Cleo and taunting her. Probably not the best idea but you've got to admire her anyway. This kid's got spunk. It doesn't last long though. Cleo catches up and manages to drag her out of the tree.

Bella is a good fighter but she can't hold off four angry kids with weapons. I can't just stand here and watch them murder her but I'm at a loss for what to do. Another person's thoughts enter my head. Justice, District 6. My brain is in chaos with all the different voices. Justice jumps in to help with a short spear. He cuts and jabs the attackers trying to keep them away from Bella who is in hand to hand combat with Cleo, having managed to disarm her, they're now wrestling and throwing punches. Finally, Bella knocks Cleo out cold. This of course makes Anthony mad and he goes after her viciously yelling "She's mine!" Dude seriously needs some anger management. His fury blinds him and he makes several obvious mistakes, which Bella takes full advantage of. At last Justice and Bella injure them enough to make their escape.

I wonder where Jared is, if he's close, if he's okay. My quarries are all tending their injuries at the moment and they all have angry, disappointed thoughts. I silently climb a tree, taking great care not to make any noise or do anything that might let them know I'm here. I settle down on a branch and wait, scanning their thoughts for anything of importance.