Pain. Misery. Death. Hunger. Fear. Those words describe how the Land of Ferox works and its only getting worse. As you walk down the streets you find more homeless people then those with a home. President Byles is cruel and only care about money. Those who were homeless before he became President have mostly been killed off because of President Byle. If you are still alive when he sent out all the executioners upon the homeless you were considered lucky. I beg to differ.I'm Reina Wong. I'm what people would call lucky. Lucky to have escapes the grasps of the executioners. Lucky to be alive. Lucky to have been born. Lucky to be as close to healthy as you can get on the streets. I on the other hand don't think I'm lucky. I watched as allies, friends, and my mom got caught and killed carelessly. I don't have food in my belly every meal barely even one meal sometimes no meal.

That isn't the point all of the homeless are suppose to gather in town square for a 'special' announcement by President Byle. Traveling by roof, like I always do, I found an empty roof to watch from afar not trusting that they didn't just set this up so they could kill us quicker. A light shined on a screen and those dump enough to go into town square quoted down. President Byle entered the screen smiling carelessly. I wanted to turn and leave but sadly I wanted to here what dreadful announcement he was going to make.

"Ladies and gentlemen, people of Ferox, I have a new announcement. Starting this year, every urben will be forced to give up three boys and three girls to be placed in a toppling tower and fight to survive. Because there are only eight urbes, each will give six children form the ages 8-18. Everyone too young or too old will not have the chance to do so.

"The first choosing ceremony will be held tomorrow at 8 a.m. sharp. In every urben. Please understand that everyone will need to wear their finest attire for this occasion, and if not, they will be persecuted in the town square. I'll be visiting each urben to explain the rules more sufficiently." The screen darkened and the whole area was silent. I froze terrified and shocked at the news. 'If everyone is in town square then it will be harder to hide plus that means if I do go in they will now have a record of some sort of who I am.'  I thoughtslowly getting over my shock. 'I need a lead of action and quick.'

I jumped back to where I stay every night. It was the best view of the city. When the sunset it hit the light in a away they seemed to make them shine brighter. It was incredible. And at night it was like an abstract art. Today the clouds looked red, pink, and purple landing to the bright house lights.Neding to calm down before coming up with some sort of plan I pulled out my sketch pad and began to let my pencil hide me around the page. I had to glance up every once and a while to make sure I was doing it right. The strokes were soft and hard to see in case of a mistake. After an hour or so the out line was basically done. After that I grabbed my other pencil and began to darken some lines to a low them to pop more. Yawning and examining the drawing with the light that was left. I nodded in approval before placing it down to be worked on later. Streching I leaned back the message from President Byle flooding my mind. All I could think to do was either go and risk being caught or lay low staying on roofs and how no one sees me. I was leaning more towards laying low. I felt my eyekeuds by an to get heavy as I left out a long sleepy yawn. Not wanting to go to sleep I resisted the urge but it only seemed to speed up the process of getting to sleep. Sighing I let it over take me falling into a deep, restless sleep....

Chapter written by: loveiswherethehomeis