Anthem ; Day 9

The dying is quiet on this day.

Terribly real, and tragic, in the way that makes your stomach start to turn over and over on itself. These are the moments where you are forced to realize that you are watching people die — real people, with real stories and real fears; and real hopes fading in the dim light that floods into their eyes as they take their last breath. A silent supernova. This isn't a show, it's murder. It's punishment.

It is necessary. It will always be necessary.

But then the television shuts off, and the blade is pulled out from between the ribs of a familiar stranger, and we're left with the static. The false stars, the marching music of a nation that wants its people dead, and the tiredness.

It's hard to sleep when the ghosts are in the room with you.

D8 Malaki-Boden W/A [Arx]
D9 Oswald Tove [Doodle]

Two faces stare down at our remaining tributes. No matter who looks at the sky this night, they battle with their guilt and their choice and the grim realization that rises with the dawn. Everywhere, everything, it's all that they can see.

Only one more obstacle remains in the way to survival.

The time has finally come for the end.

Congrats on surviving Day EIGHT!


General Information
Posting is mandatory for all tributes.

Mandated fights


SCRAPYARD
Ellis [66] v. Talon [99]
(finale order: Talon, Ellis)*


Gamemaker Notes:

Mandates end when either a mutt pack reaches max damage or a tribute dies.

For the finale, a Gamemaker will post to start the thread.*



CLIMATE
Weather: The sun hangs high in the sky, blaring overhead with so much intensity that your body feels more like a melting prison than a home. For the heat, it appears almost distant on the horizon. A mirage in the flame blur. Another thing you can't quite reach.
Temperature: 101F/38C
Humidity: 40%



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