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Annie Cresta

That night Garran's face flashed through the night sky. His face was the only one that did, we stopped hunting for the rest of the day in honor of his death. We sat there in silence as his face disappeared.

"You okay?" Kanda asked and she sat down beside me, handing me some water and crackers.

I nodded "Yea, I'm fine." I took a sip from the canteen and handed it back to her.

Again, we didn't say anything, but it was nice to know somebody was there for me, not just Maxem.

"I'll watch first." Wyatt offered sleepily, no matter how tire he almost always tried to watch at least for an hour.

I got into my sleeping back, grateful for the warmth I fell asleep.

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Something tickling my face woke me up. I slowly sat up and found the source; a tiny beetle. I flicked it away onto the dirt. My throat felt dry and I got up over towards the supplies. That's when I heard a gurgling noise, I looked around, and Wyatt was asleep in the play where he was supposed to keep watch, nobody else was awake. I checked each member, Maxem was fine, Wyatt and Lilac were too. Kanda's coppery hair looked wet in the dark.

But that wasn't water. It was blood.

I stepped back in horror and tripped over a sleeping back waking Simon up.

"What the hell?" Simon asked.

My hand trembled when I pointed towards Kanda's bloody form.

His dark eyes widened and he crept over to her. That's when I noticed some of the tiny beetles, it was the same species of the one that was crawling on my face. "Do you see the bugs?"

He nodded, and then the bugs erupted from her chest, and her cannon boomed.

I gasped in dismay and shrieked.

Simon was the first on to react to the awful sight "Everyone up! Now!"

Maxem was immediately up and out of his sleeping bag "What's going on?"

Simon pointed to Kanda's gory corpse. The beetles were starting to scurry there way over to Lilac's sleeping area. I ran over and shook her awake.

When she woke up she cracked me against my hand, I glared at her and pushed her to the ground and snapped "Fine! Get eaten by tiny beetles for all I care!"

That seemed to wake her up she glanced over at Kanda and she was up on her feet in a second "We need grab as much supplies as we can." She commanded.

I ran over away from them and grabbed my blue bag and stuff some matches and the heating and cooling plastic sheets, I also grabbed a canteen of water and three knives. I rolled up my sleeping bag and shoved that it too. Everybody else grabbed what they could and we were sprinting towards the rocky cliffs that I fought on just a few days ago.

I swear blood stained the rock, I swear it was the blood from the dead tribute I killed. I couldn't stop staring at it.

We scaled the cliffs with Maxem half haling me/ carrying me up it. I snapped out of it; the Careers were arguing.

"Who was supposed to be on watch?" Lilac asked, her voice levels dangerously high.

"I was." Wyatt said guiltily.

She walked up to him and hit him on the chest "Well you got you District partner killed! And almost all of us killed!"

"Oh, you don't think I'm aware of that?" He asked harshly.

I needed to walk away from the fighting, I slowly got up and walked towards some of the trees and leaned against it. I covered my ears too, not wanting to her there big argument.

I stared off into space, looking at the night sky. For such an ugly arena the sky was… beautiful. Dark blue and sparkling with stars, it reminded me of the nights at District 4, the sky would reflect off the ocean, I used to sneak out and go swimming, it made me feel free, it made me feel like I was swimming in the sky. I missed that.

Maxem and the others were getting pretty heated, I knew I should go over there and break it off but I couldn't do it for some strange reason. I didn't have the urge to. It's like I wanted them to fight, but I didn't have the energy to go over there and break up another fight. I knew I had to leave soon, but I didn't want Maxem to fend for himself. So I walked over towards them, was when are when I noticed Lilac went missing.

I looked behind me, half expecting her to be behind me holding a weapon, she wasn't. I turned back too Maxem and then. That's when I noticed Lilac holding an axe. What was she planning on using that for?

She slowly crept up behind Max, Simon and Wyatt noticed and didn't say anything. I didn't know what was going on before it was too late.

L-Lilac cut off Maxem's head.