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Lucelle~

I find myself awake again, sopping wet. I see Jackson standing over me with a bucket. Well, that explains it.

I lift my head from the floor and look around. Zander is also lying on the ground, stirring a little bit. Zinnia is by him with a bucket, and a branch is on his other side. 

I sit up and my head spins, making me quickly lie down again. 

"I think I have a fever," I tell Jackson. He shakes his head.

"No, you don't," he says. "I set up a small electric trap, but it wasn't done. I don't know how it got to here, but it did, and you stepped on it. Luckily I know how to get rid of electrocution. Do you have any blackberries?"
I nod. "There's a pantry in the hollow tree over there."

Soon I'm standing again, and helping out with Zander. We've diagnosed him with a concussion. At least, we're pretty sure that's what he has; he had a little bit of trouble reciting Humpty Dumpty and  (as Zinnia is pretty sure she remembers reading) he has slightly dilated pupils. 

My arm is much better, actually. I suppose the antidote Lily sent me just took a while to work. I use some of it on Zander's head, which was bleeding, but Jackson told us not to worry, all head wounds bleed, even if they aren't very bad.

 
I stirr and sit up. Where.... Where am I? "Zinna?" I ask "Where are we? Why does my head hurt? Why is everything blurry?" I ask. She explains. I sigh. I hear footsteps and 3 equipped tributes burst out of he bushes with bows drawn. "Zin. Leave me here. Escape. Leave me...... ," I say. "You'll be safer. Go."

Lucelle:

These must be whats left of the Careers. I can tell because on of them has a diamond earring. District 1 boy. I killed the girl.

I dive behind a stump as the first arrow falls. Jackson steps out of the tree and almost gets impaled. I grab him and we run.

We run for about a minute until I realize-- Zander and Zinnia aren't behind us.

"We have to go back," says Jackson. I agree. We run over to see Zinnia and an almost uncountios Zander surrounded by Careers.

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Dun dun duuun!!!

Oh no. Oh no. Oh no oh no OHNO. I look around frantically. My bow is over on a tree stump. I'm no good at wrestling. 

GUYS!!!!!! COME ON!!!

Lucelle-

"Come on. We can't just stand here!"

I run into the fray. I think I catch something, but no cannon fires. Good, no one's dead.

I dash over to Zinnia's bow and quiver and throw them to her. She starts firing, and I hear a cannon. The district 1 boy, lying on the ground.

"Come on," I say to Zinnia.  "I'll get Zander."

She doesn't come on. Instead, she's helping me lug Zander into the forest. We're not safe yet, however. The crashes in the brush behind us indicate we are being followed.

"Go on!" I hiss at Lucelle as we try, and fail, the task of carrying Zander away from the Careers. "No," she replies, huffing. " We can't get away." We will have to fight. We can't do this much longer." I nod, and we set the unconscious Zander down against a beech tree. I take out my bow, and Lucelle her knife. I stare at the brush we just came out of, an arrow ready to fly.  But no one comes out of any bushes, nor trees. After about 15 minutes of patrolling, we set down our weapons. I start to tend to Zander.  While I'm dabbing cool water on his forehead it hits me. Jackson and Cory caused a diversion. Do they have an OUNCE of common sense?

Zinnia-

I see the trident fly through the air and feel it pierce my leg.  

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Zinnia-

The pain is the fiercest thing I've ever felt. It rips at my body like a lion pulling my heart from my body and shoving it back in. I think I'm screaming, at least my mouth is open. And right before I black out, I know. That blade wasn't just a blade.

When I wake up, my bow is next to me. A little farther along, Loretta is slumped against the tree, fresh cherry juice streaming from her arm.

That's not cherry juice, yeh dumbo. I tell myself, crawling over to her. But I can't.