Katniss Everdeen | the girl on fire (foragirlonfire) wrote in madisonvalley, @ 2013-11-05 15:22:00 |
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Entry tags: | !log, !open, ~2013 november, ~40 points, ~~katniss everdeen (foragirlonfire), ~~marius black (marius_black), ~~peeta mellark (die_as_myself) |
Who: Katniss Everdeen & Open
What: Arrival
Where: Around the city
When: Evening, not quite sundown.
Warnings | Status: Blood, death, gore | in progress
She was bleeding, and her head hurt when she could feel it at all. She was bleeding and hurting because she was alive, and she just hoped that the Capitol would kill her already. She'd left one victor alive with Peeta, the best odds she could give him. So why wasn't she dead? Because they're going to make an example of you. Of everyone. Katniss forced her eyes open and immediately shied away from the blinding light of the sun.
What the hell?
She was outside, on her back and the surface she thought was a table was the hard earth beneath her. She was still bleeding, the wound Johanna had given her hadn't been enough to kill her yet. But not for lack of trying. She could just will herself to die, stay where she was. Another victor would come across her if she didn't bleed out first. But where was Peeta? Katniss forced her eyes open and pushed herself into sitting. She couldn't die until she found him and he was dead or the lone victor. Which meant not bleeding out for the moment, it meant one more fight. Hating being in the open, Katniss moved into a crouch and half crawled wearily toward the buildings in her line of sight. It was the only cover offered without a decent trek the opposite direction to the woods. She didn't have energy for that.
None of the details made sense with the arena layout, but neither did waking up in the open. They'd captured her. Why wasn't she aboard the hovercraft? Katniss slid down the side of a building, leaving a trail of blood. She'd need to staunch the wound or she wouldn't make it far at all.
Voices brought her awareness to full alert and she held her breath. Who was it? Who was left? Too many voices to tell them apart, a group on foot then. Peacekeepers? Katniss closed her eyes briefly then slid the other way around the building, coming full stop.
She looked up and managed not to scream.