Katniss Everdeen (
firegirl) wrote in
beyondtherift2012-02-11 09:34 pm
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and may the odds be ever in your favor
It's late on the day after the meteors hit. The sun is still out though it'll set in an hour or so. The destruction is still present across the city. The Rift activity has come to a slow but there are monsters out on the sidewalks still, and it is still not safe to be out on the streets more so than normal on any other day in Chicago.
Katniss Everdeen is running when she slips through a Rift into Chicago. The bow and arrow is wrapped around her back and the tiny, orange backpack that she needs is on her arm as she sprints. Blood drips from the cut over her head making her dizzy but she has one thing in mind, pushing her through the pain. Survive. Get back to Peeta with the medicine and survive.
Survive has been all she's thought about since the Hunger Games started. Win came later after her promise to Rue and Prim. It's the getting back to Peeta, helping Peeta that's new but the boy with the bread has an infuriating way of making her owe him. Again and again. With the new rules in place mid game, she can't let him die, and she knows the medicine alone isn't guarantee enough but it's the only hope he has.
She's clearly underfed, bleeding from above her forehead. Her clothes are torn, and she's dirty from head to toe. So consumed with that one purpose, vision blurred by the blood dripping in front of her face, it's not until she barrels directly into a car and lands squarely on her back on the pavement that she realizes it's changed. This is not the arena or the arena has completely shifted like it never has in past games.
What are you doing? She thinks to the Gamemakers before she forces herself up into a seated position at the sound behind her. It's a creature, something unrecognizable. Katniss pulls the bow and arrow from around her back, forces herself to a wobbly stand, and fires a shot at the monster who'd nearly attacked someone. It hits somehow considering she knows her aim is not at its best. It kills it. She leans back against the car, trying to catch her breath.
It takes her a moment to realize that there's clear sky all around her (and buildings and more that she doesn't recognize) and no camera in sight.
Katniss Everdeen is running when she slips through a Rift into Chicago. The bow and arrow is wrapped around her back and the tiny, orange backpack that she needs is on her arm as she sprints. Blood drips from the cut over her head making her dizzy but she has one thing in mind, pushing her through the pain. Survive. Get back to Peeta with the medicine and survive.
Survive has been all she's thought about since the Hunger Games started. Win came later after her promise to Rue and Prim. It's the getting back to Peeta, helping Peeta that's new but the boy with the bread has an infuriating way of making her owe him. Again and again. With the new rules in place mid game, she can't let him die, and she knows the medicine alone isn't guarantee enough but it's the only hope he has.
She's clearly underfed, bleeding from above her forehead. Her clothes are torn, and she's dirty from head to toe. So consumed with that one purpose, vision blurred by the blood dripping in front of her face, it's not until she barrels directly into a car and lands squarely on her back on the pavement that she realizes it's changed. This is not the arena or the arena has completely shifted like it never has in past games.
What are you doing? She thinks to the Gamemakers before she forces herself up into a seated position at the sound behind her. It's a creature, something unrecognizable. Katniss pulls the bow and arrow from around her back, forces herself to a wobbly stand, and fires a shot at the monster who'd nearly attacked someone. It hits somehow considering she knows her aim is not at its best. It kills it. She leans back against the car, trying to catch her breath.
It takes her a moment to realize that there's clear sky all around her (and buildings and more that she doesn't recognize) and no camera in sight.

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