She expects the blow to come elsewhere, to have to dodge a differently placed area. This is why the Academy always told her not to imagine what would happen. They said it would be her death, and her pre-emptive move means that an edge of the arrow that she'd tried to dodge... cuts into her cheek rather than her arm. She'd meant to duck to the side, keep low, then spring up. But instead, like her knife on Twelve in the area, she gets it in the face.
The blood pours. Head and face wounds always bleed heavily, even if it's a minor injury, but it doesn't matter. It's blood.
It's blood streaking her face, along with the rain water. Blood. She sees it in her mind. All the blood near the Cornucopia. Clove looks up, sharp, and her body is tense. Her foot twists, finds a hold against the dirt turning to mud, and she lunges suddenly, straight at Twelve.
Her knives aren't out, but they don't matter. What she needs right now is leverage. To take the girl to the ground. Just like the Arena. The kill Thresh denied her.]
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She expects the blow to come elsewhere, to have to dodge a differently placed area. This is why the Academy always told her not to imagine what would happen. They said it would be her death, and her pre-emptive move means that an edge of the arrow that she'd tried to dodge... cuts into her cheek rather than her arm. She'd meant to duck to the side, keep low, then spring up. But instead, like her knife on Twelve in the area, she gets it in the face.
The blood pours. Head and face wounds always bleed heavily, even if it's a minor injury, but it doesn't matter. It's blood.
It's blood streaking her face, along with the rain water. Blood. She sees it in her mind. All the blood near the Cornucopia. Clove looks up, sharp, and her body is tense. Her foot twists, finds a hold against the dirt turning to mud, and she lunges suddenly, straight at Twelve.
Her knives aren't out, but they don't matter. What she needs right now is leverage. To take the girl to the ground. Just like the Arena. The kill Thresh denied her.]