Ever since Claudius Templesmith announced the rule change in the games, I have been determined to find Peeta, and I won't stop until I do. We could both go home, alive! And maybe, just maybe, I won't have to owe him anymore. Or maybe I'll even have enough to owe him, when we live in the Victor's Village. I keep yelling his name but he doesn't hear, must not hear, and doesn't respond. I am walking and have been walking for hours but he never tells me anything. I walk alongside the river, because he couldn't possibly survive without water, and think, what if I have already passed him and he just never said anything? What if he is about to die this very second? I call his name again.
"Well, don't step on me," he says in camouflage. I tell him to close his eyes and he disappears. It is amazing. I think of how I yelled his name last night and now, I've finally found him.
"You know we're on the same team now," I tell him, reassuring him that he won't die.
"So I've heard," he tells me. "Nice of you to come find what's left of me." And from that moment on, no matter what has happened in the past, i know we had an unspoken alliance.
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