When we've scrabbled down to the forest floor again, we wave at Mike and Tina before running off towards the edge of the forest. We've decided that after that little event, we'd be safer away from all these trees. We pass through the forest and we're just reaching what looks like a clearing, when the canon fires, first one, then again.
I really hope that's not Mike and Tina.
Across the clearing is a rock formation, with caves every so often. I figure that the bottom caves most definitely have traps in them, so we climb higher. I take Brittany's sword and go and investigate the cave first, and when I find nothing, I call her in. We eat the rest of the rabbit from yesterday, and what little reserve food we have left, while I count how many tributes should be left. I count seven, with myself included, which means that 17 people have died already.
It usually slows down by now, with the tributes that are left being more careful.
We sit, snuggled up against the wall, debating where to move onto next, when I see movement in the distance.
"Get down" I slide onto my belly, and Brit does the same, as Azimo from district 11 running into view, he looks at the caves, as if contemplating if they're safe or not. He's looking a little worse for wear, and I realise why he's running when I watch him shoot into a bottom cave, just as the male tribute from district 3 runs into view, and shoots into the cave after him.
Azimo was the first to start screaming, although the boy from district 3 wasn't far after him. Obviously I was right about something being in those caves. The screaming died down pretty fast, and was followed by the sound of the canon firing.
I rolled over on my back and looked at Brittany, who shifted so she was leaning over me, she moved and pressed her lips down to mine, and I sighed, wrapping my arms round her neck and pulling her into me.
"Guess that makes five of us." Brittany laid her head down onto my chest, face resting the crook of neck.
"Yeah, I guess it does."
We stayed in the cave that night, lay in our sleeping bag, and watched as they showed the action from the day. During the flood, the girl from district 7 had died, along with the girl we saw get thrown into the tree.
The canon's we heard when we reached the clearing where Mike and Tina, Rachel and the boy from district 4, Finn I think his name was, cornered them. And then the two that died in the cave below us.
The boy from district 7 was out there somewhere, probably alone, along with Rachel and Finn. I was worried about Rachel, she'd already turned on her district mate, she was dangerous.