Day 4

Flynn Charter

District 6- Pahuakuaii

"So guys," I ask, "What are your tokens? I keep meaning to ask!"

Tess shows a pretty grass bead bracelet, Aspen and Techla show their necklaces, Aspen's with a book and Techla's with a pie, Kron had a locket and Allesandro had a complicated looking bracelet.

"I just have this." I say, showing them my personalised dog tag.

We all admire each other's in silence, until Allesandro breaks us out. "Last day of training today," he says, "Weird right?" We all nod, mostly feeling the same thing.

"Well," said Techla, "I guess we need it to count!"

"That's- that's probably the most optimistic you've said so far!" I joke and she glares at me. It's not that she's pessimistic but she's quiet and not the most peppy person.

To be fair, it's kinda obvious why she isn't. Maybe it's the death thing.

That could get anyone down.

We walk over to the tracking station as a group, none of us are amazing but we aren't terrible either.

We get a combined average of half the animals correct. Some of them were impossibly hard.

Aspen Beech

District 7- Pahuakuaii

Training's been okay, I've made friends and I've even enjoyed myself. I wonder if this is how Runyon felt before the games.

Soon, these friends will have the power to kill me.

I push these thoughts out of my head when I hear Techla give a cry and point to a pile of videos.

A mix of survivor episoodes- what this years game is based on, and old hunger games.

Straight away I see Runyon's year and I realise that I never watched anything but the bloodbath he died in. Not the interviews, not the chariots.

My parents didn't want me to and I had to watch the bloodbath alone. They never mentioned his death, tried to act normal for weeks but they then stopped caring.

I watch his chariot, smiling when he came dressed as a giant tree. In his interview, he talked about me, making me want to cry. He talked about something else too.

His alliance.

I never knew he had one of them. Did they betray him? Is that how he died?

I wish I had answers.

But I'll never get them.

Tess Larson

District 9- Pahuakuaii

"Are you okay?" I ask a crying Aspen, worried. She attempts to put a smile on her face but I see a tribute list from a Games a few years ago. In the 7 male spot 'Runyon Beech' is printed in neat letters.

Her cousin maybe. That would make anyone upset. Dealing with dead family members, whether you knew them well or not is heartbreaking.

She stands up, holding some survior tapes. Everyone else except us got bored of looking but we insert the tape and watch a few seasons together.

The challenges are all random and people who seem to be friendly vote for one another. Me and Aspen both think it's terrifying but this was watched for entertainment in pre Panem days.

"Who would be entertained by this?" I ask Aspen in an almost whisper. She shrugs, looking as shocked as I feel.

"Maybe it's less horrifying when you aren't being voted to the death," Aspen attempts to joke.

We are both crying and we almost hug.

We both shiver and go to join the rest of the group, practicing sword fighting. Kron was terrible, but Allesandro was half way to being good.

Vissie Tera

District 11- Pahuakuaii

Somehow, me and Waylon got to talking on the second day. I'm only 2 years older and we both have weird senses of humour, even if I'm darker and he prefers puns.

He uses puns a lot.

Like a weird amount.

Hands down the best station is the obstacle course, both me and Waylon think so. Other than that, I like using weights and he likes archery.

Knives, the station where we started talking, weren't that good. After the first two days they became popular and Waylon found the dummies 'creepy.'

I found them hilarious.

Alessandro was Mr Popular in the group he hung out with, he was a cool guy but we never really talked much, even after training.

He would do god knows and a would watch old Survivor episodes with our mentor.

I still disliked the Capitol, I would until I died, but I discovered the best invention ever. The Rubix cube.

As my old token wasn't much, a piece of string I'd chosen for the sake of having something. I talked to my mentor and she'd agreed to clear it with the Capitol to let me have one as my new token.

Alessandro Lionheart

District 11- Pahuakuaii

I wondered if the wolves would even remember me by now. I've never been away from them before. It was crazy how much I missed them.

It was weird talking to the group sometimes, even with the district gap there were things they knew ther I didn't. Kron was in the same sort of situation as me, although he wouldn't say why.

Him and I were practicing sword fighting against each other but I was clearly winning. I'm not being cocky, he was just terrible. Tess and Aspen came back from watching old videos, Tess' arm around Aspen. They appear to have been crying.

I wish I could be outside. I hadn't felt cool air against my skin for almost a week now and it felt weird.

All of today and yesterday we'd been practising weapons. I liked whips but hated bows due to my blind eye making my aim terrible. I did hit the bullseye once- of the wrong target.

Other than that, I liked working with berries and preparing food, Techla liked this too so if our group split up to cover more ground I generally went with her.

Brialle Thatch

District 12- Pahuakuaii

I'm not an unfriendly person, but I won't talk to anyone and everyone. Most of my teammates have clumped together in a big group and I don't feel comfortable like that.

There is also the fact I may be the youngest and smallest in my group. Waylon Wilders may be around the same age as me but he's still taller and stronger looking than me.

The only person who looked to be the same sort of stature as me was Aleksandra Fortran and whilst we had talked, it was clear she was inherently mistrustful of me.

I also had talked to Luna Mortem but she was older, a volunteer, a lot stronger, and something I couldn't quite put my finger on, which was weird as I was a fairly good judge of person usually.

It didn't matter much, I focused on learning to make traps and build fires. Whiksr it was mentioned that we would get a small amount of rations, we were allowed to hunt for our own and I knew it payed to be self sufficient.

I was surprisingly fond of the colour in my hair. It was pretty nice and looked nice with my clip.

So all in all, it wasn't a bad few days before I died.

What were UK's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip given as a present for baby Prince Andrew while on a visit to the Gambia?

Points:

(Answer: New Amsterdam)

EllaRoseEverdeen - 90

ChillyIce- 60

Jul312- 40

Shadowking179- 100

Jailynne: 20

H . G fanboyyy . 03- 10

Amypurplefrenchfry- 10

Fun fact: All polar bears are left handed. (I know most people know that but it'd literally 5 minutes before I post and I'm too tired to look for a better one.)