DAY TWO

As the sun rises, I wake up, and my body clock is already all over the place. I have no idea what time it is but I feel it is time to explore, as stupid as that sounds.

I remain ultra vigilant as I know that if I'm spotted, I will get killed and I make an almost fatal error. For some reason I go and observe the career pack at the cornucopia. I sit in the long grass and gaze down and the deserty hole, which is still stained from blood, and listen to their conversation for several hours. Not much is said at first, they sure spend a lot of time talking about themselves, that's for sure. I sort of hope they disappear for a little bit so I can run in and steal some of their stuff if I'm lucky, but then the conversation changes tone.

'who is our next aim then?' Claud says as her quizzes the other careers

'well it has to be Lucius, he got a 10 in training' Drusus replies.

'Great thinking, what was his weapon, we need to find him but if he has a long range weapon then forget it' Claud continues

'He got himself a club' Drusus laughs. Yes, laugh at it Drusus, but that thing nearly killed me.

'What about that boy from 12?' Natalie from one puts forward.

'yeah, thats true Nat, he did get a 9 in training' Tania from 2 says, definitely agreeing I am a potential threat. I feel slightly flattered.

'forget him' says Drusus 'he's a weed, he is no threat to us what so ever. If nature doesn't kill him, then we will, or if we happen to stumble across him, then fine, but I'm not going to actively look for him'

Thanks Drusus.

By this point I have heard enough and so I sneak back along the swamped area and into the forest where out of no where I spot Lucius. He's not even worth considering an alliance with, seeing as he almost killed me at the cornucopia. Plus, there is a bigger problem approaching. I think the careers may have been following me by coincidence whilst looking for Lucius. I sneak slowly, slowly, slowly, trying my best not to let Lucius hear me as I stamp on the occasional crunch leaf. I find a tree, and climb.

That's when the careers emerge and I sit high up in the tree bricking myself as I watch everything.

Lucius goes to club Drusus over the head but he pushes it away like a balloon and just knocks him over. Tania then joins in my jumping on him and stabbing his arm. Despite thinking she looked quite evil, there is still something very pretty about her and I feel sick watching this. It's like they find it funny watching him in pain. She stabs his other Bicep before slitting his throat. Blood sprays out his jugular and hits her on the face, and instead of being repulsed, they all laugh. Tania even gets a high five from Drusus. I genuinely don't understand.

I'm too fearful to get out of the tree and get away, so I stay put. I don't want to make any sort of movement that would allow the careers to find me, their deaths are excruciating.

A mosquito is annoying me by flying around me with its annoying buzzing sound. These things carry malaria and I don't want to get that, not at all. I've seen it kill many people in district twelve, and it is just horrendous.

I see it land on my land and just as I go to crush it, I feel it bite into my hand, which is odd in its self as you generally don't feel them. The moment the electric shocks start is the moment I realise that this is a muttation mosquito that causes electric shocks. It sounds like a cannon has just gone off but it is in fact my body screaming.

I can't even control the screaming, I know that I will be heard but it's a reflex I can not over ride. It seems to last for hours.

I slam the floor hard and there I see the body of Lucius on the floor. I expect the impulses to stop but they don't. My body curls up on the floor and it's out of my control, it's comparable to a tetanus reaction and the pain is unbearable.

Then suddenly it, it stops. It stops in time for me to hear the sound of foot steps and conversation. I feel like I'm about to die but need to get out of the danger, so I pick myself up and run. I run as hard as I can but there's no speed as I have just used a large amount of energy fighting the convulsions.

I have no idea if the careers ever walked through that area, but I daren't look behind. After running for around ten minutes I crouch behind a tree where I am physically sick. This worries me as I realise that I am now on an empty stomach with just one cereal bar left.

I need to find some sort of shelter, but I can't think of where. I see a small hill and slide down that, where at the bottom is a small ditch. I try to remember the camouflage techniques I learnt in training, and gather masses of leaves, twigs and rocks. I jump down into the ditch, place my blanket over me, and then scoop as many leaves as possible over my body in a desperate attempt to remain undetected.

I lay in the pit silently, fuming at what the game makers have just done to me. As well as putting in severe pain, they also made me look ridiculous, killing any chances of sponsors. I must have looked so stupid, it was just so out of the blue. And it's not even like I had someone with me so I could explain it to, and telling it to myself would have just made me look like I was going mad. Having said that, two days in this place is enough to do that, especially after the sights I've already seen. This is what they call entertainment, this is what they call sport, this is what they call fun.

Knowing that the Game Makers are able to get inside me and not just effect the environment terrifies me. I've now been left on tenter hooks as to what they will do next. I have done any thing particularly wrong, I haven't annoyed the capitol in any way, or at least I don't think I have. What are they going to do next? Boil my blood? Set a nuclear bomb off in my brain? I wouldn't be surprised actually.