The Forest

If you turn east or northeast from the Cornucopia and run, you will soon come to a forest. Made primarily of pine trees and other evergreens, it provides some cover from weather, plenty of pine needles for fires and bedding, food, and a bit protection from fellow tributes, but that doesn’t mean it’s a safe place. While you hide behind or in the trees, another tribute may use the layer of pine needles to muffle their footsteps as they sneak up behind you. Even if your enemies weren’t to be contended with, there are other dangers here; while some animals, like rabbits and squirrels and, if you can bring one down, deer, are valuable sources of food, others, like the bears and wolves that make this forest their home, may see you as the food source- most likely they’ll leave you alone, but if you make the mistake of threatening one, they won’t hesitate to attack.