Food. That's all Lottie can think of as she chases you through the woods, the other girls in front of her. She doesn't think of how she's your girlfriend or how she begged you to not pull a card because she knows the girls would listen to her about keeping you out of the hunt. But you were stubborn. You were already feeling left out of the group due to your selective mutism, never really participating in discussions or being upset at how you were different, and you just had to go and talk her into letting you join in on the card pulling.

It's winter again, and it's an even worse one than last time. They've hardly found any food and you've been having to live off of ice soup and leather. It happened last winter—the card pulling. Nat was the one who got the Queen Card and was supposed to be the sacrifice so they could eat but the Wilderness didn't let it happen. It wanted Javi. And so, Nat was crowned Antler Queen since she survived. Lottie was sick and devasted and in denial when you showed the girls that you had pulled the Queen Card. It was like the Wilderness was playing some cruel joke on her. But when Shauna had turned you around and held the knife up to your throat, something else emerged. Hunger. You all were experiencing it. And if it were any other girl up there besides you, you would've felt the same deep hunger that Lottie started getting as she imagined herself feasting on your heart.

You couldn't do it. You didn't want to die. You just wanted to eat. You take a sharp turn and lose them, hiding behind a tree and staying as quiet as you can when you hear them rush past and scream and growl your name tauntingly. As soon as the coast is clear, everything spills out. You feel the beginnings of a meltdown and cover your ears as you still hear them screech like they're rabid animals and begin crying. What you don't hear is the crunch of the snow as Lottie makes her way towards you with her sharpened spear.

"I found you." her voice is surprisingly calm, and it makes fear pierce through your heart.