Kyran Oleander
It was a few minutes after Ara fell asleep that she started talking.
"Put it back once you're done with it, I know!" She yelled fairly loudly. I chuckled softly, trying not to wake her. She kept screaming/yelling random things for a few more minutes, and then I heard her moving around. She poked her head out and looked me in the eyes.
She started laughing, giggling actually, something I'd never heard her do. She crawled out and lay sprawled on the ground. She pointed up at the trees and started shrieking. I thought a tribute might've been up there, ready to strike, when I realized she was shrieking because she was laughing so hard. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary, and I realized she was sleep walking.
Just then she got up and walked over to the bushes lining the clearing.
"Foxy! C'mere fox fox fox fox fox! C'mere I got some food for ya!" She was starting to sound drunk almost. I tried to think of who "Fox" could be and why she was yelling to them. When I couldn't figure out who she was yelling too, I remembered the other tributes.
"Ara! Ara quiet down!" She didn't hear me. In fact, she got louder.
"FOX! I KNOW YOU'RE OUT THERE! IT'S TIME TO COME HOME!" She was screaming bloody murder now, and I'm sure they could hear it at the other end of the arena.
I ran up to her and was just about to tap her shoulder when I remembered something from school. In my General Health class, we did a day-long unit on sleepwalking, after someone in town had committed suicide in their sleep.
I could specifically remember one thing my teacher said that day. "Waking someone up when they're sleepwalking is the worst thing you can do. If someone who was sleepwalking was on the edge of a cliff and you woke them up, they'd fall off the cliff."
I decided to try to coax her back into the shelter.
"Ara, stop yelling. Fox is on his way home." She whirled around.
"He is? He's coming home?" She asked with a concerned look in her glassy eyes.
"Yep, he's coming home right now. You're really tired, you should go to sleep. Fox will be here when you wake up." I wasn't sure if this was working, but it was worth a shot.
"Oh." She said, as if this never occurred to her. "Okay then. Good night." She walked at a brisk pace back to the shelter and climbed back in. I heard light snoring shortly after, and I slouched against the base of the tree.
"Phew. That was a close one."
Sorry, I couldn't really think of anything to write about! You guys can choose if Erin and/or Fern heard her yelling.
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