Guys, I'm so sorry I have updated for so long. I feel like a total moron. The worst part is, that I don't really have an excuse other than writers block, and even that doesn't justify not uploading for an entire month. Sorry, sorry and again, sorry o.o

I reluctantly looked up as the national anthem started playing. This means faces, I thought and swallowed a sob. The guy I'd killed was the first face to appear in the sky, and I felt sick about myself. Both from 6 and 7 were gone, and after the last of their faces had faded away, Kim looked at me from above, and I felt like crying. The girl from 8, the girl from 9, both from 10 and 12 were dead as well. I crawled to the edge of my camp and emptied my stomach in the grass.

"See, there's an apple tree in this garden!" a male voice cried out. I sat up groggily, trying to figure out how I'd fallen asleep yesterday. My eyes were swollen from weeping, and I felt weak.

"They look good," another voice, this time female, said. I started hearing footsteps and crawled out of the tent, as silent as possible though they wouldn't have heard me if I'd lit fireworks while jumping around crying out so loud I could "HOGWARTS, HOGWARTS, HOGGY-WARTY HOGWARTS, TEACH US SOMETHING PLEASE". It could've been fun, though, but in Recommended Camp Protection Charms by Hermione Granger, it had specifically warned against such experiments if in danger, so I purposely kept my mouth shut.

I had to rub my eyes to see anything as the sun blinded me, but when the sun disappeared behind a cloud, the five career tributes were less than ten feet away and I screeched in startle and stumbled back into the tent, that tilted over. Cursing myself I pulled back, but the damage was done. Opal, the girl from 1, gulped and pointed at a spot to my left.

"I saw a hand," she said, her voice shivering. "Just for a moment, and then it disappeared again."

"A hand? Come on now, Opal!" Yilo from her own district laughed loudly, but Dya besides him frowned at Opal's words.

"Did you see what that girl from 7 did at the cornucopia? Maybe she's concealed somewhere, but let her hand slip." She pulled out a murderous knife from her belt and started walking in the direction, Opal had pointed. Quick but quiet I started packing, ready to run, but nothing seemed to fit in the back-packs. Outside my little circle, Dya suddenly stopped with a puzzled expression, and then she very determinedly turned around.

"What are you looking at?" she sneered at the others. "Let's get some of those apples. Now!"

"But.." Eleva from 3 stared blankly at her. I used the extra time my Repello Mugletum Charm had given me to hastily perform an Undetectable Extension Charm on one of the back-packs and now I could easily fit even the unfolded tent into it and the other bag.

"Pick an apple!" Dya ordered one of the others, a boy I couldn't place anywhere right now, and he reluctantly turned and went to the tree. In the same second, the apple let go of the tree, it exploded in his hand and I was thrown backwards.

The ground wouldn't stay steady beneath my feet, but I rose anyway, confirming my fears. The explosion had blown me out of my protected circle, and the careers, as dizzy as me, was starting to get hold of their ground and stared loathingly at me.

"Well, well, well," Dya sayd, her mouth twitched in a snarl. "Look who dropped in." She started moving towards me, but a hand shot out and grasped her arm.

"You don't know what she can do. Better kill her at good distance, I say." Veile from 2 eyed me suspiciously. "Do you have a good aim with those knives, Dya?"

"It wouldn't help her." My voice was trembling slightly, but my hand was steady as I pulled out my wand, pointing it at them. My bag was still inside the circle.

"You are pointing a stick at us? A stick?" Dya laughed heartedly.

"Don't judge a book on its cover. Accio." Her knife flew elegantly away from her and landed in my hand. "Would you like to see what else it can do?" I felt like laughing as I saw her eyes widen in fear. Instead I measured the distance to my bag. "My aim has been envied by many," I said truthfully, turning my hand towards the apple tree. "Reducto." I immediately broke into a run. I'd already grabbed by bag when the branch I'd jinxed hit the ground, and the blow almost threw me off my feet but I held my ground and ran on.