Raining Fire (Noah/Georgie)

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Raining Fire (Noah/Georgie) Oct 6, 2024 3:31:36 GMT -5

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Post by Cato on Oct 6, 2024 3:31:36 GMT -5

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One of my favorite things to do is to watch fire and see what it's capable of doing. It's powerful and something that isn't to be messed with. I have to respect it which is why I sit at the fire starting station learning about the best types of wood to use, how to keep the fire going. Fire represents life, and as long as it will help me, it'll keep me going even when all other hope is lost. Right now the only thing on my mind is doing what I can in order to make the best chance of survival, and I know I need to stay warm and cook food, and anything else I might need to do. It's easy enough in theory, but I know it's hard and unreliable. I have to focus on myself, and right now, that means learning as much as I can so I can stay alive for as long as I can.

I sit down and cross my legs and build a tiny bonfire. I watch it burn, and I smile when I successfully keep the flame going. It wasn't easy. I've made so many mistakes, so many errors. Many times it toppled over. Sometimes the flame didn't last long. Other times I took forever to strike the flint properly. I hate it, yet I spend as much time as I can trying to understand everything that's needed. I watch it grow, I nurture it, and one wrong move toppled it over and everything I had worked for is all for nothing. A heavy sigh leaves my chest, and I start picking my stuff back up. I want it to work. I want it to be easy, but nothing is ever easy in the hunger games.

I sit off to the side for a moment and watch everyone else. It seems easy to pretend to be busy while actually spying on people. I slowly stack my wood back up, but I make sure to focus on what everyone else around me is doing. It's important, and easy, and I know it can make a difference. I ask the trainer some questions, and then I get my fire going again. I stare at it. It's completely mesmerizing, and I wish I could make things last forever. I know it seems impossible, but there has to be a way. I keep my flame going and watch someone else. Maybe she knows what's she's doing. Maybe she doesn't. I don't know; but I sit there and watch her without looking like a creep. She seems like she has a plan, and I want to watch and see and maybe become part of it.

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Raining Fire (Noah/Georgie) Oct 6, 2024 13:29:36 GMT -5

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Post by d6a georgie cham 🍓🐢 frankel on Oct 6, 2024 13:29:36 GMT -5

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"But doing it like this is just so boring!” Georgie tells the trainer. For some reason, the fire making station is so overcrowded. Georgie thinks everyone should be a little careful, all bunched together, there will be a wildfire in no time. She looks around, who looks like the type to take one for the team and accidentally set fire to this place? Just like the hospitals back home, she is sure this place is filled with a water sprinkler system or something else scientifically unimaginable to fight fire. Georgie won’t be the first tribute to ever like the idea of seeing this place burn to ash.

It’s boring piling up sticks and flicking flints. She’s mixed it up by using different types of fuel to build the flames, an old rucksack and a roll of bandages. Anything else that can be found in an arena. Hopefully there will be trees in hers, she doesn’t like the idea of some barren land.

So, she’s got the theory of the art of fire building in her head. It’s all to do with The Fire Triangle – heat, fuel and oxygen. Just 3 things needed to keep something burning, it only takes one to disappear to put the flames out.

”Can we learn about actually using fire for something interesting? Sat keeping my hands warm isn’t going to impress the sponsors!” Georgie imitates a lecture she had from Flynn earlier today, ’sat reading in the library isn’t going to impress sponsors!’ It pains her to hear his voice in her head, she sometimes tries to mask it with Teddy’s accent.

Georgie shuffles on her knees away from the burning piles of logs. There’s an older guy sat quietly to one side that catches her eye. His face matches the dark red list of careers that her mentors have made her study, it is one of the two guys from Two. ”Don’tcha think they should be teaching us how to control these flames properly? Like make a deadly wild fire…” Georgie rubs her chin, maybe that is a thought she shouldn’t have said out loud. ”I hope I am not giving you any ideas, career guy! It’d be fun to learn how to fight fire too…in case one of you does get that idea!!”

Dars.