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play time~blitz~ghosty Jun 7, 2015 9:07:50 GMT -5

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Post by pup on Jun 7, 2015 9:07:50 GMT -5

You don’t know me, you can’t hold me. I’ll slip through your hands, I am one single grain of sand

The sword weighs down my arms as I try to lift it up as far as I can which isn't far. The worst I can do to this dummy that I have been at for thirty minutes is denting it's leg a bit. My arms are small and frail from doing nothing my whole life except for working in a factory. I feel as if everything in my body is tired ever since I volunteered for the girl in my district, I haven't been able to sleep a single wink at night. If only I hadn't then I wouldn't die by the wolf in an eye patch. I wish I could be back home with Preston and Eva, getting ready to be hid from the hunger games for yet another year.

But now I have no such luxury as a brother and sister protecting me from looking at a tv. Now they will be watching me on the tv dying first. It's like how in school I am the last to be picked for team games. Like how I have no alliance. No one wants the girl who isn't strong enough to lift a sword and is going to die as soon as she steps into the arena. I might as well just step off my plate early and get it over with so I don't need to make anyone else a murderer.

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play time~blitz~ghosty Jun 7, 2015 10:54:04 GMT -5

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Post by ghosty on Jun 7, 2015 10:54:04 GMT -5

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Abel MacLaren

It looks ridiculous when a girl tries to lift a sword that's bigger than she is. And she continues to try for half an hour straight, no doubt her arms are killing her, and the dummy, if it could, would be laughing at her, her inaptitude at trying to kill it. So much so, I stopped trying to learn how to swing a shortsword effectively to cause the most damage to flesh from a trainer no doubt having said this about 20 times already this games, just to watch her struggle. Not that I want to see her fail, just to see if she can do it. I don't remember the face, even from the past hours inside, just learning how to kill or just survive. I saunter over towards her, my eyes locked on the sword grasped heavily in her hand, the point almost touching the ground. She's almost the same size and age as me, and I open my mouth to talk. "Ain' that sword jus' a little too big? It sure looks it if it ain't." I grasp the sword that is more my size, and hers. "This may be better for ya than tha' sword you've been usin'." Pushing the sword in front of her arms, I hope that she takes it without a fuss.

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play time~blitz~ghosty Jun 7, 2015 12:43:13 GMT -5

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Post by pup on Jun 7, 2015 12:43:13 GMT -5

You don’t know me, you can’t hold me. I’ll slip through your hands, I am one single grain of sand

I think about the wolf. What she had said earlier to me. It still rang loud in my mind. "Come find me during the Games. In the bloodbath, after, whenever. I'll make it so quick you'll hardly feel a thing. Just a pinch, and then sleep. No blood. No agony. No drawn out suffering." The girl had promised to Lily. "It's the best you can hope for." I had almost cried at that. With the encounters I had with the career from two and the tribute from seven, I could tell that you can trust no one here. I looked up from the sword when she heard a noise, startled the sword swung out and hit the dummy harder this time, spurting out fake blood from the stomach. I saw that it was a boy, about my age, around my height. A thought appears in my head, He's actually kind of cute. But I push it out of my head because pretty soon he would try and kill me. I set the sword down and grasp the one he had in his hands that he held out to me. It was a lot lighter. I watch him warily. "Thanks," I say in my quiet voice, "But I won't have very much of a weapon choice when someone is charging at me."

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play time~blitz~ghosty Jun 7, 2015 14:06:35 GMT -5

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Post by ghosty on Jun 7, 2015 14:06:35 GMT -5

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Abel MacLaren

To be fair, I'm probably the best person to have told her this. The only person around her age, and low enough district to not want to kill for fun. "Thanks," she replies, "but I won't have very much of a weapon choice when someone is charging at me." I almost nod at her words, but I stop myself. What if I was getting charged at, what would I do. I would do what she's saying, pick up the nearest thing, and just pray to Ripred like nothing else. Just pray that I'd be able to get out of the fight alive. I step nearer towards her, and offer the sword again. "It's worth the go just trying it, ain't it? Nothin's bad gonna happen if ya jus' try it, really." Walking towards the target next to the one that she was trying to hit, I mutter to her, "Let me jus' show ya what difference it makes." I slowly stalk towards the target, where I want to hit grasped heavily inside my mind, and I swing. And the dummies left arm comes duefully falling off, quickly followed by a smile on my face. "Ya see the difference?"

Last Edit: Jun 7, 2015 14:06:56 GMT -5 by ghosty

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play time~blitz~ghosty Jun 7, 2015 15:03:02 GMT -5

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Post by pup on Jun 7, 2015 15:03:02 GMT -5

You don’t know me, you can’t hold me. I’ll slip through your hands, I am one single grain of sand

I feel really shy, as always when confronted with someone new. This time more than most, but I manage to keep my composure. I take the sword he handed me and held it in my hands, noticing how light it was. He quickly takes a same version of the much lighter sword away from the table and uses it to quickly chop of the arms of the dummy standing in front of us. It spurts a fountain of blood and I do my best to not throw up everywhere. A smile formed on his face though. I really hope he isn't like the wolf who thinks kindness is quickly killing someone. "Yeah," I say queasy, "I can definitely see the difference." In district eight the worse thing I saw was a squirrel being shot by a peacekeeper, my brother and sister had protected me from the whippings and everything, but this was in a while new scale of grotesque. Even if it was just a fake arm that now lay on the floor.

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play time~blitz~ghosty Jun 8, 2015 9:04:12 GMT -5

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Post by ghosty on Jun 8, 2015 9:04:12 GMT -5

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Abel MacLaren

The sickness upon her face is apparent, no doubt upon the fake blood pooling on the floor after the sword took off the dummies arm. She's too young and sensitive to be here, in all honesty. I saw stuff that I was too young to see, a limb not attached to a peacekeepers body. Not something that a 12 year old should see. It's an aging thing, something that matured me. Although, Sam bein' taken away probably affected me a lot more than the lifeless leg ever did. But no longer wanting to see the queziness upon her face, I almost snap at her, "Well, if ya find that nasty, ya better get over it pretty quick. Cos this, it ain't nowhere near as bad as it gonna be in the arena." I don't want to make everything seem better than it's gonna be there, cos she'd blame me for everything, if I came upon her in the arena. And Momma and Sam tol' me. Lying doesn't help anyone, 'cept for myself. And what's the point of that?

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play time~blitz~ghosty Jun 9, 2015 6:20:38 GMT -5

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Post by pup on Jun 9, 2015 6:20:38 GMT -5

You don’t know me, you can’t hold me. I’ll slip through your hands, I am one single grain of sand

I try to wipe the look of queasiness off my face quickly, and succeed. If I had any chance at becoming friends with him it's now gone from what I can tell. He seems like one of the careers and wouldn't hesitate to cut my arm off. No matter how ~~cute~~much of a pretty boy he was, she would need to stay away from him which saddened her because he seemed at first like a nice guy from one of the worse of districts. "I know I need to get over it," I say in my soft voice, "It's just hard to do that when it's disgusting and absolutely barbaric." I sigh. This training wasn't as near as bad as the hell I was about to go through in the arena. I pick up another light sword and swing it at one of the dummy's legs, but still cringe as blood comes gushing out.

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