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Treeing (Artemis) Aug 21, 2014 18:18:25 GMT -5

Post by pup on Aug 21, 2014 18:18:25 GMT -5

Willow Oak "You know what? Fuck life."	District 7
	Female
	Sixteen
	Charisma Carpenter

Willow was sitting on a tree in the woods. She knew she shouldn't because sometimes half finished trees where there and they could fall at any moment. Like what happened to her father. She was whispering to the tree. "I'm going to break your limbs." She whispered, tearing off a branch of the tree. "I'm going to burn your family." She gestured to the rest of the forest. It will burn. She knew it. "And then I'm going to kill you."

She turned as she heard a snapping noise along the path from up her tree. Someone wasn't being very quiet. She looked at who it was. He seemed a bit older than her. 20 ish or so. He was walking near a half finished tree, partially cut through the middle. Then she saw it. The tree started to creak, the same way it had when her father had been crushed. "Look out!!!" She yelled at him.

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Treeing (Artemis) Aug 22, 2014 12:20:27 GMT -5

Post by Andrei Ehrenström on Aug 22, 2014 12:20:27 GMT -5

It was very rare that Andrei got time to himself.

Between taking care of his siblings, working a full day with his father and picking up projects to earn extra money, it was a wonder he had any social life at all. He loved them, though, and it was a labor of love... Though every once and a while he had to be reminded to take care of himself. Mama had shooed him out the door after a particularly long week at work, telling him to unwind while she and Papa took care of his younger siblings.

"With how little you go outside, I'll be an old crone before I become a grandmother!"

So here he was, walking through the woods and letting himself just do nothing for a little while. Even in the middle of summer, the air was cool, a soft rainy drizzle filtered down through the canopy of the trees, and the wind carried the familiar, comforting scent of pine and cedar through the trees like a blanket.

It was the most peace he'd had for a while.

Andrei wasn't, though, paying as much attention as he probably should; one of the most common ways for District 7's residents to die prematurely involved the forest. Wild animals, falling out of trees, being crushed by trees--

"Look out!!"

He didn't stop to question where or who the voice had come from; he heard the ominous creaking and cracking noise next to him, and threw himself forward out of the way of the tree ready to come down right on top of him. His arms covered his head and neck, and with good reason; the trunk missed him by mere feet, but the branches and boughs were still firmly attached. The pine needles hit like, well, a wall of needles, stinging his skin even through his shirt and jacket. For a moment he lay there, curled up on the ground protecting his head, heartbeat hammering in his ears as he slowly realized he was unharmed... albeit completely obscured from view by the pine tree's foliage.

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Treeing (Artemis) Aug 22, 2014 12:56:08 GMT -5

Post by pup on Aug 22, 2014 12:56:08 GMT -5

Willow Oak "You know what? Fuck life."	District 7
	Female
	Sixteen
	Charisma Carpenter

She saw the tree fall, and the pine needles hit him. She winced in empathy. She remembered when the pine needles hit her all those years ago when the tree and crushed her father. The pine needles had stung her everywhere, leaving small marks on her young skin where it pricked her. She had cried out in pain then. But she was 12 back then. Now she was sixteen. If Pine needles pricked at her again she would set them aflame.

She climbed down her tree, wincing in a bit of pain from her damaged leg. She liked climbing but the leg made it more difficult. Why did her Bitch Step-Dad have to also be a drunkard? She had promised herself never to ever drink alcohol after the day he broke her leg in a drunken rage.

Willow rushed to the fallen tree. "Are you OK?" She asked, worriedly. Sometimes the pine needles were just as bad as the pine tree. She moved away some of the foliage and grabbed his arm. Then she pulled him up. Well, tried to pull him up. He seemed to be older than he seemed and was heavy with some muscle. Willow couldn't really pull him up. From her vantage point from the tree she thought he was a kid. Being high up in trees do tend to obstruct your vision.

Now that she was closer to him she noticed he was actually around 21 years old or so. Since she couldn't pick him up she started shifting around a few branches so he could. The pine needles tickled her hands as she moved branch after branch. She hoped he wasn't injured badly.

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