Title: A Fox’s View
Author: Caisha702
Blurb: The Hunger Games from Foxface’s perspective.

Excerpt:
“Her name’s Rue,” he says. “She shouldn’t be here. She’s still a child.”

“I don’t think you will be the one to kill her.”

He stands up in response and takes a couple of long strides towards me. When he stops he is still a fair distance away, but he is close enough to remind me of the fact that he is nearly two feet taller than me and at least four times my weight, which I suppose was his intention.

“Don’t think that because I’m soft on the little girl I won’t kill in the arena,” he says in a low voice.

“I didn’t say that you wouldn’t kill, I said that you wouldn’t kill her.”

“You’re up to something, fox-girl. The girl I’m speaking to isn’t the person who she was at training.”

He’s cleverer than I thought. “We are all up to something, Thresh. Everybody wants to live.”

He inclines his head to me slightly and walks away towards the dome. Just before he disappears from my sight, he turns back.

“I won’t hunt you down, fox-girl, you have my word. But if we meet, I’ll have no choice.”

I nod in reply and return to my position looking out over the railing at the Capitol. I could kill Claudius. Him and his copper dress. I might as well have had the ears and tail because if Thresh knows me only as ‘fox-girl’ then that must be the lasting impression I have made. I hear the bell ring as the lift takes him away. I don’t hate him, I don’t even hate the Careers. The Capitol has made them what they are. It is the Capitol that causes all of this pain and suffering then has the nerve to call it entertainment. It is the Capitol that I truly despise.

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Thanks to Erica Jane for the suggestion!