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venom. But once it stops and the cannon signals her death, a
hovercraft will move in and retrieve her body, taking the only
bow and sheath of arrows I’ve seen out of the Games for good.
And I refuse to let them slip through my fingers again!
I reach Glimmer just as the cannon fires. The tracker jackers
have vanished. This girl, so breathtakingly beautiful in her
golden dress the night of the interviews, is unrecognizable.
Her features eradicated, her limbs three times their normal
size. The stinger lumps have begun to explode, spewing putrid
green liquid around her. I have to break several of what used
to be her fingers with a stone to free the bow. The sheath of
arrows is pinned under her back. I try to roll over her body by
pulling on one arm, but the flesh disintegrates in my hands
and I fall back on the ground.
Is this real? Or have the hallucinations begun? I squeeze my
eyes tight and try to breathe through my mouth, ordering myself
not to become sick. Breakfast must stay down, it might be
days before I can hunt again. A second cannon fires and I’m
guessing the girl from District 4 has just died. I hear the birds
fall silent and then one give the warning call, which means a
hovercraft is about to appear. Confused, I think it’s for Glimmer,
although this doesn’t quite make sense because I’m still
in the picture, still fighting for the arrows. I lurch back onto
my knees and the trees around me begin to spin in circles. In
the middle of the sky, I spot the hovercraft. I throw myself
over Glimmer’s body as if to protect it but then I see the girl
from District 4 being lifted into the air and vanishing.
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