The Preserve [Thursday morning]
Katniss wasn't imagining the huge, huge insects as she moved towards the woods for her morning hunt. She took down a few of them, collecting her arrows and cleaning them off on the leg of her pants as she went. They were like roaches, but far too large.
Even after a month here on this island with its own eccentricities, Katniss's first impulse was that they were muttations. But it seemed unlikely that the Capitol would put them here.
There were also little shadows creeping at the corners of her eyes. Every time Katniss prepared to climb a tree, or took aim, they were there, like something niggling at the back of her mind.
It was during one of these moments, when Katniss was perched in a tree, that the void opened. A dark hole appeared just beside her, and while she scrambled away as fast she could, she wasn't Rue. She wouldn't be able to get out of the tree quickly enough. When she finally gave up and just jumped, figuring that a broken bone would be no worse than whatever this hole was, the void yawned larger, and she fell straight through it.
[NFI, obviously!]
Even after a month here on this island with its own eccentricities, Katniss's first impulse was that they were muttations. But it seemed unlikely that the Capitol would put them here.
There were also little shadows creeping at the corners of her eyes. Every time Katniss prepared to climb a tree, or took aim, they were there, like something niggling at the back of her mind.
It was during one of these moments, when Katniss was perched in a tree, that the void opened. A dark hole appeared just beside her, and while she scrambled away as fast she could, she wasn't Rue. She wouldn't be able to get out of the tree quickly enough. When she finally gave up and just jumped, figuring that a broken bone would be no worse than whatever this hole was, the void yawned larger, and she fell straight through it.
[NFI, obviously!]