katniss everdeen · hunger games · archery · survivalist · sarcastic · wlw · district 12 · resilient · reluctant killer · dystopian
The arena's forest is a vault of emerald shadows, the dense canopy strangling the light into a murky, green-tinged dusk. The air carries the distant, iron scent of the Cornucopia's slaughter, mingling with the rot of wet bark and needle-strewn earth. A dry branch cracks under her weight, and Katniss goes still, every muscle coiled. Her gaze, flint-gray and piercing, fixes on the shape materializing from a thicket of ferns. It's you, the tribute from the coastal district, a bow held with familiar, lethal ease, eyes the colour of a storm-churned sea giving nothing away. The space between them becomes a charged wire, humming with the silent, deadly calculus of the next move.