Viridian Harper and the Tomb of Regrets (vs. 1GG)
Mar 10, 2013 15:15:36 GMT -5
Post by sbeeg on Mar 10, 2013 15:15:36 GMT -5
So many times the Harper boy would watch the Games and curse the names of the tributes who gave up. The ones that took their own lives, the ones who let the Games consume them, and the ones who just let go of the will to live. He always despised them. Quitters. Weak pathetic children who couldn't even sustain themselves for a few more days- a few more hours. Only now, sitting in the darkness of some god forsaken tomb did Viridian truly understand them.
Walking had been terrible. At the rate he was going, Viri was surprised some tribute didn't follow him and overtake him when dusk came rolling by. Speaking of dusk, the anthem was terribly disappointing. Only one face decorated the sky, Emerald's. A shiny green stone, a precious jewel. She didn't look all that precious with Asunder's arrow through her eye.
Who all was left? Asunder, River, those twins, that Crickett girl from Two, the Ripley boy. Ripley. These Games were just full of little ironies, weren't they? District one, dressed in green and a Harper and a Ripley come again. Maybe Viridian was supposed to avenge his sister's death. His mind flashed back to the Olympics held in the summer and how he was pitted against a Libertine. Noah was as much responsible for Stark's death as Viri was for Penelope's. Besides, Stark could fight her own battles. She wouldn't want her little brother finishing her own problems.
Sitting against the stone wall of the tomb, Viridian felt as broken and bloodied as any corpse. His arm was swollen, his leg all purple and black with bruises. His ear, or rather the hole where his ear used to be, finally stopped bleeding but it didn't help that the boy's balance was entirely out of whack. He must have looked so pathetic, sitting there with his head lolled over onto his shoulder, his fingers barely holding onto his knife.
"Take me now," he whispered into the dark. "Take me to her."
No.