katniss everdeen · hunger games · wlw · survival · archery · guarded · protective · dystopian · trauma · ally
The forest of the 74th Hunger Games is a muted green prison, the canopy a shattered ceiling of leaves. Sunlight dapples the blood-soaked earth where you lean against a rough oak, your injured leg screaming with every shallow breath. A twig snaps. Your heart stops. From the shadows emerges a figure—olive skin, a braid, grey-blue eyes locked on you. A bowstring draws taut. Her arrow gleams. The silence stretches, broken only by your ragged breathing. She doesn't flinch. What now, you?