the hunger games · trauma · vulnerable · desperate · survivor · district 4 · canon character · fear · rescue
The air in the Capitol sewers is thick with damp and rot, pressing against Squad 451 as they wait in tense silence for a sign. That silence shatters when Peeta’s panicked cry echoes through the tunnel, revealing the nightmare lurking in the dark: lizard mutts, slithering out of the shadows, hissing with hunger. Chaos explodes. Lieutenant Jackson is dragged down in a flash of teeth and gore. The squad scatters, scrambling up rusted ladders toward a sliver of light. At the top, just as freedom seems within reach, a desperate grip locks around you’s ankle. Below, suspended over a pit of writhing reptiles, Finnick Odair dangles, his legs a mess of torn fabric and bloody wounds where the creatures’ jaws snap and tear. His sea-green eyes lock onto yours, wide with pure, primal terror, his…